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State will decide on FRHSD budget
Eight municipalities fail to agree on amount of tax levy for 2010-11 BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer The Freehold Regional High School District’s budget for the 2010-11 school year is now in the hands of state education officials. The lack of unanimous agreement among officials of the FRHSD’s eight sending municipalities on a general fund…
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Howell council slices $1.9M from school tax
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — The recent vote to defeat the tax levy portion of the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education’s proposed 2010-11 budget was not a mandate from the public, the president of the Howell Township Education Association (HTEA) said recently. Although Gov. Chris Christie urged voters to reject…
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Firm hired to search for new FRHSD supt.
BY REBECCA MORTON Afirm that will seek out a new leader for the Freehold Regional High School District has been hired by the district’s Board of Education. At its meeting on May 17 the board hired West Hudson Associates to conduct the district’s search for a superintendent. The contract between the board and the firm…
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Teachers unions bear some blame for layoffs
CODA GREG BEAN In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that my personal experience as a member of a labor union has been limited to twice, and both those sagas were frankly weird. The first time was in the early ’70s when I was trying to save money for college and hired on…
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Teachers have become state’s scapegoats
I wear many hats in Monroe Township, Middlesex County: mother, grandmother, wife, teacher and union member, to name a few. To my consternation, scapegoat must be added to this list. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a scapegoat as “one that bears the blame for others” or “one that is the object of irrational hostility.” I wear…
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Consolidation is key to saving state
GUEST COLUMN ANDREW BRUCK Fix New Jersey’s fiscal crisis? Streamline its 566 towns. Or so say the Good Government types. “Let us have consolidation,” explains Nathan Horton, former counsel to the City of Orange, in an interview with The New York Times. “It would be economy in more ways than one.” “New Jersey is in…
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Writer will miss Regal Cinemas in Marlboro
Please help save our neighborhood movie theater, Regal Cinemas in Marlboro; it is the only one we have. It is to be torn down as of June 2010. It is a deal with Costco. You can cut all of our trees down to build the store and jam our roads with more traffic. Have a…
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Writer wonders if new state law will keep young drivers safer
This letter to the editor is only my opinion and is not intended to disrespect the memory of Kyleigh D’Alessio in any way. As a parent, I feel I must speak my mind about Kyleigh’s Law (regarding new drivers in New Jersey). These days it does not matter if you live in the suburbs, the…
