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PLUS Police Briefs 2 Datebook 3 Classified 4 ilX' ft REGION Samples of floating trash that washed ashore last week are expected to be analyzed today. 2 TOMS RIVER More than 150 classic cars are set to cruise down Washington Street 2 D01V7J TO THE SEA 111 'SHIPS' Kids learn about boat building at Keyport's Americana Festival of Sail. OUR TOWNS3 77. i AM 1 It ASBURY PARK PRESS I MONDAY, JULY 12,2004 jr vs lit mm ms rair Suspect held on $10G bail for DWI How that caused him to lose control of the Corvette. The vehicle then struck the east side of the bank.

Mastronardy said Cuciak then fled on foot. He ran through several backyards and scaled a chain-link fence. As Cuciak attempted to cross into another yard, his path was blocked by a Brick police cruiser driven by Officer James STAFF REPORT DOVER TOWNSHIP -A 39-year-old Florida man was charged with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and eluding police after a car and foot chase in the Silverton section of the township about 2:30 a.m. yesterday. Police said Russell M.

Cuciak of Palm Beach, Fla was apprehended by Dover and Brick township officers after crashing his 1999 Chevrolet Corvette into a Sovereign Bank branch at 1866 Hooper Ave. Police said Cuciak is employed locally at Auto Sales on Chambers-bridge Road, Brick. n. rut The bank was declared unsafe by the Dover Township building department, according to Police Chief Michael G. Mastro-nardy.

Mastronardy was uncertain if the bank would be open for business today. Dover Township Officer Brian Jarka observed the "fry- if ijsaw ftp Man's dog dies in accidental fire in Brick GOT A NEWS TIP? Contact Metro Editor John Schoonejongen (732)643-4295 jschooneapp.com bank Iannarone. Police said they used pepper spray to subdue Cuciak and then took him into custody. Mastronardy said Cu- ciak was taken to Community Medical Center where he treated and released yesterday into police cus-: tody. He was held at the Dover Township jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Joe Zedalis caused by smoking material. Firefighters arrived to a heavy blaze, which was under control in 30 minutes. They remained on the scene for about two hours, Batzel said. The home is uninhabitable because of fire damage in the front and smoke and water damage throughout, Batzel said. The Breton Woods, Pioneer Hose and Laurel-ton fire companies from Brick and the Silverton fire company from Dover responded.

Batzel said the resident was the sole occupant of the three-bedroom, one-story ranch house in the Birchwood Park section, behind Brick High School. John Mathis lent large sums of money to the American government to help finance the Revolutionary War. bought out his partners and used the 250-acre tract as the basis for a property empire. In 1729, Mathis and his wife, Alice Andrews Hig-bee, whom he had married in 1716, bought 813 acres on the east side of the Bass River. He built "the Great John Mathis See Revolution, Page B2 J-'K -pfi vehicle being driven by Cuciak nearly strike the median as it traveled north on Hooper Avenue, police said.

Cuciak ignored attempts by Jarka to pull him over, entered Brick Township and made a U-turn at Beaverson Boulevard and headed south on Hooper Avenue. Police said Cuciak swerved in and out of traffic before striking a curb toss a water balloon (staff photos: tanya breeni 1 "'ff lA jtt ft JV 1 4 4 9 'i tttJ WHAT HAPPENED Another look at a story that made headlines in the past. Stanley Dancer signed this copy of the August 5, 1968, Issue of Sports Illustrated, In which he was featured on the COVer. (STAFF PHOTO: MICHAEL SVPNIEWSKI) Harness racing great in Florida Dancer sold Plumsted farm By JOSEPH SAPIA TOMS RIVER BUREAU PLUMSTED Stanley Dancer, the harness racing Hall of Fame member who made his name in the business here in the township, moved permanently to Florida a decade or so ago. His Egyptian Acres farm, on Archertown Road just outside of New Egypt, changed hands about that time.

It is still a stan-dardbred farm, now called Kentuckiana. And the Dancer family harness racing dynasty Stanley, brothers Vernon and Harold, son Ronald, and nephews Donald, Sonny and James is pretty much gone. So Stanley Dancer, 76, is out of sight, here. But not out of mind. There is a room devoted to Dancer at the New Egypt Historical Society Museum.

"I think they did a very nice Job," said See Dancer, Page B2 If you have a story you like to see updated, please contact Metro Editor John Schoonejongen at (732) 643-4235 or at jschooneapp.com Sports illustrated By GREGORY J. VOLPE STAFF WRITER BRICK A dog died in a fire that broke out in the front icuioom at a Cedarwood Drive home Saturday afternoon. No one was home when the fire started in a pull-out couch in a front bedroomcomputer room at 116 Cedarwood Drive about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Brick Fire Marshal Kevin Batzel said. The homeowner, Robert V.

Galante, 34, left his home at 1:30 p.m, Batzel said. No firefighter was injured, but they found the dog's remains, Batzel said. Investigators believe the fire was accidental, but have been unable to identify its cause. Batzel said it was most likely First Sgt. David Corbln of Toms River helps Joseph Rockhlll, 1, also of Toms River, painted to look like a hand grenade at the open house at the Toms River Armory, War not far away at open house Guard hosts event at armory 7s i ft HISTORICAL VIGNETTE Island owner gave to revolutionaries Sgt.

Raymond Lopez fingerprints Makayla Roma, 2, during the open house at the Toms River Armory yesterday. By JOE ZEDALIS TOMS RIVER BUREAU DOVER TOWNSHIP While visitors took rides in an Army Hummer utility truck, got their faces painted in camouflage paint and tried a mock-In the back of your mind, you know the possibilities when you sign the papers." Kevin Interdonato of Howell and member of the National Guard since 1997 grenade toss, there was an unmistakable sense of reality at the Toms River Armory yesterday. With members of the National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 112th Field Artillery and Detachment 1 Service already in Iraq, and the rest of the unit awaiting deployment orders, the open house was an opportunity to be with family and friends. Capt. Robert Hughes of Stafford, an accountant for the State of New Jersey when not on National Guard duty, said the unit has been on alert for nearly a year.

"We've been designated for deployment," Hughes said. "When and where, we don't know." As part of the 42nd Infantry, based in New York state, the Toms River unit is part of the Division Support Command, which will replace regular Army units in Iraq. The front-line role of the New Jersey National Guard and the combat deaths of several guardsman, including Christopher M. Duffy of Brick, have changed public perception of the National Guard. "Most people see it as a part-time job," said Jan Roma, whose husband, Robert, is stationed in Iraq.

Roma is a teacher at Toms River High School East. "While we are considered citizen-soldiers, we (guardsmen) are doing as good if not a better job See War, Page B2 By CAROLE ANN LANG GUEST WRITER Not all the heroes of the Revolutionary War made their contributions to the patriot cause on the battlefield. Ocean County's John Mathis fought the good fight not militarily, but financially. Mathis had emigrated with his brother Charles from England in the early 18th century, settling first at Oyster Bay, Long Island. In 1713 he bought Biddle Island in New Jersey, with partners William Birdsall and Moses Foreman, from Daniel Leeds.

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