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🌱 Patch AM: Love Christmas Lights? Check Out These Ocean County Homes Decked Out For 2025

Coming up on the Brick Patch calendar: LIDARescue Cat Adoption

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Hello again Brick! We’re bringing you the latest town highlights. Don’t miss out, keep going! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Map out your Brick Christmas light tour for New Year’s weekend
  • How Brick neighbors and cameras helped crack recent car break-ins
  • How one local boy defied a devastating diagnosis to walk again

Also on today's calendar: LIDARescue Cat Adoption and 5 more events.

Find out what's happening in Brickfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

Find out what's happening in Brickfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

  • Thursday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 47 and low of 23 degrees.
  • Friday: Snow and sleet, up to 1", temps: high: 33, low: 29.
  • Saturday: Morning mist; cloudy, breezy, with a high of 36 and low of 30 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Love Christmas Lights? Check Out These Ocean County Homes Decked Out For 2025 (patch.com) — Families in Brick can enjoy a festive tour of local homes, with several addresses across town highlighted for their standout Christmas light displays open through New Year’s weekend. The guide, compiled from community submissions, encourages respectful drive-bys and even notes a few walk-through experiences elsewhere in Ocean County. Residents can still add their own decorated homes to the list by contacting the organizer.
   

• Man Arrested In String Of Vehicle Burglaries, Brick Police Say (patch.com) — Brick Township police say a local man has been arrested after a series of vehicle break-ins in neighborhoods off Mantoloking Road and Drum Point Road. Officers credit residents’ surveillance footage and quick reporting with helping close the cases, and they’re reminding everyone in Brick to lock their cars and keep valuables out of sight.
   

• Tinton Falls boy with spina bifida was never going to walk, yet he did (app.com) — A Monmouth County mom shares how her Tinton Falls son, once expected never to walk due to spina bifida, is now walking with braces and thriving as New Jersey’s Children’s Miracle Network Champion. His journey includes therapy at Toms River’s Children’s Specialized Hospital, a Rutgers football charity gaming event, and inspiring other families across the region, including one highlighted Brick family with similar challenges.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Over 10 years ago we decided to spend a little joy while doing one of our favorite things admiring Christmas lights.
    We made these litttle things on the left anonymously leaving them in peoples mailboxes. Now we have since stopped but someone is now picking up where… (Nextdoor Hollywood Manor)
  • This is the second time I was walking my dog and dogs off leash ran at us, the first time my dog was attacked this time thank god he’s okay.
    I am not sure why owners don’t understand that leashing their dogs are so IMPORTANT. I shouldn’t be in fear walking my dog. PLEASE if you’re a dog… (Nextdoor Baywood)
  • Wal-Mart posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate in Brick. Apply here.
  • Chick-fil-A posted a job opening for Front of House Team Member in Brick. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Brick here.

🗞 Nearby News

Point Pleasant

  • Bridge In Point Pleasant Closing For Crucial Repairs, NJDOT Says (patch.com)

Point Pleasant Beach

  • 10 Events In New Jersey To Keep Kids Busy During School Break (patch.com)
  • New Point Pleasant chocolate shop is open and making NJ sweeter (wobm.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I guess I’m not as sharp as I thought.
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