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  • Arts curriculum feeds the artist in each of us

    EDITORIAL: Art plays an important role in giving students a well-rounded education.    There is art all over.    Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there is the kernel of creativity: the cast of color of a breaking dawn sky, the layered grays of the clouds, the sleek lines and arches of architecture.    There is the sound…

  • Jamesburg school budget ready for April elections

       JAMESBURG — The Board of Education approved a $8.4 million budget for the 2001-02 school year that would increase taxes 5 percent. By:Nick D’Amore    JAMESBURG — The Board of Education approved a $8.4 million budget for the 2001-02 school year that would increase taxes 5 percent.    The budget, approved Tuesday, was increased in the last…

  • Ready or not, MHS lax teams begin varsity play

    By: Justin Feil They are first-year lacrosse programs without experienced players. But they don’t wear the blue and silver of West Windsor-Plainsboro High North.    They sport the green and white of Montgomery High School. This spring, the Cougars will put their first varsity boys’ and their first varsity girls’ lacrosse teams on the field against…

  • STATE OF THE ARTS: Arts education is key to a student’s development

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — The arts are alive, well and important in the Monroe Township public schools, according to Gail Brooks.    The school district’s assistant superintendent said the school district’s curriculum has art, required or available as electives, for all 3,000 students from kindergarten through twelfth-grade.    "Art is an essential part of a child’s education.…

  • Hightstown band, choir to give free concert

    HHS is staging a musical invasion of England — and local residents can share the experience. By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — Hightstown High School is staging a musical invasion of England — and local residents can share the experience.    This Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the Hightstown High School band and choir will perform the…

  • A Return to Nature

    Born into privilege, Hungarian-born landscape painter László Mednyánszky often disguised himself as one of Paris’ unmentionables. His work is featured in a new exhibit at the Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation. By: Susan Van Dongen "Baron Mednyánszky liked to hang out with the bums on the Seine River, wearing rags, living with the underbelly…

  • Priscilla Sutowski Sabol

       Priscilla Sutowski Sabol, 84, of Monroe, died Friday, March 23 at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold.    Born in Bayonne, she lived in Edison before moving to Monroe Township in 1966.    Her husband, Michael C. Sabol, died in 1980.    Surviving are her two sisters, Irene Kopchinski of Toms River and Ann Smilowitz of Bayonne, and two…

  • State holds key on date for school bond vote

    The new May 15 date for the Princeton referendum faces an uncertain future. By: Jeff Milgram    A lot of ifs, ands or buts remain before the Princeton Regional Board of Education can hold its $78.2 million school renovation and construction referendum on May 15.    The chief obstacle is state approval of both the district’s long-range…