Day: June 26, 2003

FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster    Have you heard of the summer slide? Not the one leading into the in-ground pool. It’s the learning loss that occurs in young students during the summer months. Without ongoing instruction in math, reading and writing, skills can easily slip. Students lose some of the skills they learned during the…

District to restart search for new superintendent. By: Rebecca Tokarz    For the second time in three months, the school district will restart its search for a new superintendent.    Even though the school board’s current search netted a large pool of candidates, it did not produce the right person for the district, the board announced on…

Praised as one of the top 20 up-and-coming jazz musicians in New Jersey, B.D. Lenz and his quintet will play Triumph Brewing Co. in Princeton June 28. By: Susan Van Dongen B.D. Lenz    It’s a long way from West Milford, N.J., to Hollywood, Calif., but contemporary jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz made the move at the…

Hightstown Spirit hope to travel to Florida next month for national championships. By: Jim Green    Two Lawrence Middle School eighth-graders are asking their community to help send their Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball team to the AAU Nationals in Cocoa Beach, Fla. next month.    Justin Freedman and Armstead Dickerson, both 14 and residents of Lawrenceville,…

Randy Sibaja’s vision includes painter and eagle By:Beth Kressel    The colorful mural that stands in Roosevelt School in Manville depicts a young man with a yellow beard. He reaches dramatically toward a brick wall to complete his spray-painted masterpiece —an eagle in flight that carries a billowing United States flag.    Greg Shannon, a fourth-grade teacher…

   SOMERSET — Stephen J. Toth died Tuesday, June 17, at St. Peter’s Medical Center in New Brunswick. He was 90.    Born in Windber, Pa., he lived in Manville before moving to the Middlebush section of Somerset in 1955.    Mr. Toth was a machinist for Mack Trucks in Plainfield and later worked as a machinist for…

To the editor    School uniforms should be considered for public high schools because they bring people together, help diminish conflict among youth and save parents money.    Schools that have uniforms already see the good that comes from it. I feel strongly that school uniforms can help kids in school.    When school uniforms come into play,…

Discipline, funding cuts top concerns voiced by public By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — Louis Talarico already knows what he’s getting himself into — and he says he can’t wait.    With the school district in turMoil over issues like discipline and program funding, it might be easy to expect that someone new to the district helm…

The court gets it right on sodomy laws, but Bush appointees could make for some bad times in the future. By: Hank Kalet    A ruling today from the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of freedom and personal liberty.    The court ruled 6-3 that a Texas law against "deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the…