Vol. 19 - No. 34
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–Photos by Judy Smestad-Nunn (Above) The line of seaweed in a front yard shows the water line. (Right) “No Outlet” is painfully true for residents who can’t get out from that street when there is a full moon high tide. By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Flooding in the township’s Normandy Beach section of the barrier island has become so bad in recent years that residents are asking for No Wake signs for their streets since passing vehicles push the water in their garages and plantings. No Wake signs aren’t all the residents are asking for. During a recent Township Council meeting, several of them gave suggestions and asked the governing body if the Engineering Department
has any plans in place to help with future flooding events. Resident Steve Kirby said roads in the island community used to flood a handful of times each year, but now they flood 20-30 times a year, and in some areas the water gets too deep for cars to pass through on the only road that exits the community. (Flooding - See Page 4)
| January 4, 2020
Brick Uniting Against School Cuts
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Members of the school community attended the most recent Township Council meeting to ask the governing body for help and support in challenging a $22 million cut in state aid over a seven-year period. The district is going into the third year of the budget cuts, and parents are finally seeing how dire the situation is after the school administration recently announced that Herbertsville Elementary School would be closing. School administrators, Board of Education members and about two dozen parents wearing green t-shirts that said “Save Our Schools” attended the council meeting, which was the first time a significant number of members of the school community have organized over the budget cuts that were announced in July 2018. The state will not reveal the funding for-
mula used to calculate and allocate state aid to school districts, despite multiple public record requests from Brick and other districts that are considered to be overfunded. The Department of Education has said the wealth calculations contained within the funding formula are “proprietary.” Addressing the council and mayor, Board of Education President Stephanie Wohlrab said the state arbitrarily determines how much money is allocated to each school district without regard to district need or ability to pay. As a result, state funding was increased to some school districts and cut from others, including Brick, which has suffered “catastrophic reductions,” she said. The incremental cuts have so far resulted in a reduction to administrative, teacher and support staff positions, (Cuts - See Page 7)
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By Chris Christopher BRICK – Peggy Wolf, the wife of Warren Wolf, who enjoyed a legendary career as the head football coach at Brick Township High School, has died of natural causes. Wolf died at Ocean Medical Center in Brick on Friday, December 20, her daughter-in-law Kristin Wolf said. She was 89.
Wolf, who passed away Nov. 22 of natural causes at the age of 92 at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, always referred to his wife in interviews with the media as, “My dear wife, Peggy.” Mrs. Wolf and her husband hosted numerous gatherings for the couple’s beloved Green Dragons at its Brick Township home. She composed
scrapbooks of the program’s numerous successes. She and coach Wolf were classmates at Memorial High School of West New York. Coach Wolf said of his wife in a 2017 interview at their home with JerseyShoreOnline. com and The Brick Times, “She was very understanding. She knew when we won. She (Wolf - See Page 13)
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