Attention shoppers:
If you were shopping at Stop & Shop on Bridge Avenue on Friday night and remember seeing a man who looked a lot like NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams in the aisles, it probably was the New Jersey native.
Shoppers and witnesses tell Patch that Williams, 51, was buying cereal and a few other items.
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Williams, who often talks proudly about his upbringing in New Jersey – born in Ridgewood and raised in Middletown – was likely on his way to or from Bay Head Friday night.
Numerous websites – including Wikipedia – list him as a resident of Bay Head, although his current fulltime residence appears to be in suburban Connecticut, also according to Wikipedia.com.
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Numerous Bay Head homeowners are part-time, summer or vacation residents.
Williams, who has a daughter and son, was a volunteer firefighter while living in Middletown as a teenager and attended Brookdale Community College before heading off to Washington, D.C. to attend college and launch his broadcast journalism career.