Category: Examiner News
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Changes made to Millstone’s elementary school class schedule
BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Third-grade students will not change classes next year. That was one of the scheduling changes outlined in elementary school Principal Brandy Worth’s presentation to the Board of Education on June 13. While the third grade will revert to selfcontained classrooms, the majority of fourth and fifth grades will continue…
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2011 Monmouth County directory available
The 2011 Monmouth County Directory is available from the county’s website at www.visitmonmouth.com in the Information Center section. The directory contains information about local, county, state and federal elected officials who represent New Jersey and Monmouth County. Biographical information about the elected Board of Freeholders and the sheriff, prosecutor, surrogate and county clerk is also…
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Roosevelt awaits free fire truck
Cemetery inspection reveals need for maintenance BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent ROOSEVELT — The borough should have a fire truck that works within two weeks. Councilman Jeff Ellentuck announced during the June 13 Borough Council meeting that the borough is awaiting the free truck. The Mercer County Fire Academy in Lawrenceville is donating the truck to…
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IRS offers income tax advice to students with summer jobs
Some high school and college students with summer jobs may not realize that they have to pay taxes on their income. The IRS is offering tips for students about income earned while working a summer job. All employees fill out a W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, when starting a new job. Employers use this form…
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Program can help fund college costs
For 20 years the NJCLASS supplemental loan program, administered through the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA), has been helping students afford the cost of college. Highly rated by Moody’s and Fitch rating agencies, HESAA offered $326.5 million in tax exempt bonds recently to support the NJCLASS loan program. “On the 20th anniversary…
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AHS loses one of the catalysts in its continuing metamorphosis
Principal Christopher Nagy accepts superintendent’s position in Bergen County BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy doing what he will miss the most — walking the hallways as students change classes — on June 9. He will resign from the principal position on July 1. JEFF GRANIT staff Christopher Nagy helped…
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Low voter turnout for primary elections
The June 7 primary elections in the Examiner coverage area weren’t exactly the nail-biters they’ve been in previous years. With no contested races in Allentown, Millstone, Roosevelt and Upper Freehold, voter turnout was low. While no Republicans filed to run in Roosevelt, the opposite was true for the three other towns, with no Democrats seeking…
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Lack of news coverage inspires help for tornado-ravaged Alabama
U.F. woman reports back with message that people are still suffering there BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Above: Upper Freehold’s Liz Blaso searches for family photographs in the remains of an 86-year-old woman’s home in Hackleburg, Ala. The homeowner survived the April 27 tornadoes that destroyed 90 percent of the structures in her town because she…
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Aspiring ballerina poised to train in Russia this summer
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Millstone’s Isabella Cerri, 15, (r) performs at the Princeton Ballet School in Cranbury. MILLSTONE — Isabella Cerri floats like a spirit on the stage. The ballerina tries to make each performance seem effortless to draw audiences into another world. Mastering this poised style of dance requires much practice. Isabella, 15,…
