Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Gym teacher loves job

    Ms. (Lara) Wallert is a gym and health teacher at C. Richard Applegate Elementary School who teaches students in health and gym grades kindergarten through 5th grade, but she has only been here since January of 2000. Where was she before she was here? She was a student teacher at Ocean Township. If she was…

  • Space project challenges pupils

    Mrs. (Cathy) Creech, science teacher, and the fifth-grade students at C.R. Applegate Elementary School in Freehold, N.J, initiated the project Space Day 2002 — a NASA challenger program. The program was designed to afford students "a hands-on, minds-on opportunity to develop research skills, and scientific inquiry through cooperative design projects," says Mrs. Creech. All evaluations…

  • Teachers say job ‘rewarding’

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach kindergarten? Two fantastic kindergarten teachers, Mrs. (Jane) Murphy and Mrs. (Lauri) Kellerman, tell us what it is like to teach these younger students. Mrs. Murphy exclaims, "I love the children and their age. I love the fact that they are so innocent at this…

  • Famous cat is a hit at Applegate

    In 1957, The Cat in the Hat was introduced to the world. According to our Cat in the Hat, before he became famous, he was a stray and wandered the city streets. Dr. Seuss found the cat and felt bad for him. He fed the cat and cared for him, and it turned out that…

  • Board set to name new school

    Staff Writer By karl vilacoba Board set to name new school MARLBORO — Marlboro Memorial Middle School. Don’t care for the name? It could have been Peace Middle School. Or Yankees Middle School. Those were among the more than 220 announced suggestions from children and adults on a name for the Marlboro school district’s new…

  • Guest Column Kevin Coyne Pride in Freehold is centuries deep

    Guest Column Kevin Coyne Pride in Freehold is centuries deep The people protesting the redistricting of our regional high school system have been twisting and turning to avoid saying what everybody here in Freehold Borough knows is the real reason for their objection: They don’t want their kids to go to school with blacks, Hispanics…

  • Book club members thank Monmouth County Library for support

    We, the Hebrew Book Club, would like to thank the Monmouth County Library System at its headquarters in Manalapan for initiating and supporting its "Public Forum for Multilingual Book Discussions" project. This wonderful program allows people to discuss books in seven languages, taking a journey through the roots and sources of seven cultures and coming…

  • Time for board to start taping

    The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education wants $127 million to run the district’s six schools in 2002-03. The district offers students state-of-the-art technology, an advanced placement honors curriculum and a wide range of extracurricular activities. In short, taxpayers have provided the money that has turned the six high schools into outstanding educational…

  • Generalizations about school administrators incorrect

    I am compelled to respond to the News Transcript editorial "School Budget News Will Come As a Shock to Some" (News Transcript, March 20, 2002) in fairness to your readers, our residents, the Freehold Township schools administrative team and myself. Specifically, your statement identifying the administrators in Freehold Township as being reluctant to discuss budget…