Brick News

Brian Hajeski of Brick, New Jersey, reacts as he looks at debris of a home that washed up onto the Mantoloking Bridge the morning after Superstorm Sandy made landfall in October 2012.

An exchange program for Spanish teenagers is looking for families in Camden County who would like to host students for the month of July.

Gov. Chris Christie was grilled by students from Samsel Upper Elementary School on topics that ran the gamut from his role as governor to his favorite sports teams.

"We got hit bad because the ocean washed through ...if they build up the dunes, wea ll never get that kind of surge again."

This screenshot shows the revised federal flood maps for the Shore Acres section of Brick Township.

Superstorm Sandy's level of devastation across the Jersey Shore became a wake-up call about beachfront protection to officials, so much so that towns are about to spend several million in taxpayer dollars to bolster their fragile shores.

Donna Dugo of Lakewood, the president of the Women of the Moose in Brick, at the Mantoloking Road lodge, gutted since Sandy.

Two people were hospitalized after a four-car crash happened Saturday afternoon in bumper-to-bumper traffic n the Route 35 bridge between Point Pleasant Beach and Brielle, police said.

Christopher Fazio, a Monmouth University student and former Marine, shows off his dog Cheyenne and Paw-Triots, the dog treat he and his fellow students created.

They were married June 8, 1963 at St. James Church in Newark. Mrs. Coppola was born in Santander, Spain and is the daughter of the late Daniel & Angelina Aznar.

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It's been a busy week in Brick. Here's a look at the top stories of the week. If you have a story you'd like to see on the site next week, email it to colleen.platt@patch.com .

Ron Jampel of Brick talks about the situation he and his wife are in, as well as many others, since FEMA released new flood maps.

Mantoloking chases flooding solution: Mantoloking may have found what it needs to help minimize flooding in the borough that Sandy made vulnerable.

A local resident was arrested Friday because police say she stole a cellular telephone from a 77-year-old township woman, then urinated in the dressing room of a clothes store where she was shoplifting.

An Atlantic Highlands man went to the hospital after a single-vehicle crash that knocked down a pole and tore electrical wires from a home Friday, police said.

An Atlantic Highlands man went to the hospital after a single-vehicle crash that knocked down a pole and tore electrical wires from a home Friday, police said.

A 49-year-old homeless man was charged with failure to register as a sex offender after the borough police chief stopped the car he was riding in after the driver entered a blocked-off flooded street.

Sammy, the cocker spaniel who authorities say was a victim of abuse of a Brick couple, now has a new owner.

The following deeds have been recorded in the Hunterdon County Hall of Records in Books 2310 and 2311 dated through June 10, 2013.