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State grant to help deliver services to autistic pupils
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Manalapan MANALAPAN – The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District was recently awarded a major academic grant. According to information provided by the superintendent’s office, state Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy announced that the K-8 district was one of 55 Garden State school districts that will share in…
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Alison H. Parinello Maggio
Mrs. Maggio, 33, of Jackson, died April 24, 2007, at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Born in Edison, she had lived in Sayreville and Howell before moving to Jackson in 1996. She was a graduate of Freehold Township High School and had attended Brookdale Community College, Lincroft. Mrs. Maggio was a past president of the Moms…
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Around Town
The treadmill that never stops – it’s motherhood Amy Rosen When I was growing up, my mother stayed home and my father worked. I depended on my mom to wake me up in the morning, give me breakfast and drive me to and from school. She even picked me up for lunch, took me home,…
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Manisero, Green voted to top posts
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer ENGLISHTOWN – What’s old was new again when members of the Manal-apan-Englishtown Regional School Dis-trict Board of Education voted to keep Anthony Manisero as president and Ryan Green as vice president, and former board member James Mumolie rejoined the panel when it held its annual reorganization…
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Stagnant Assembly has defused bomb threat bill
“Events in the news of late have made us wonder whatever happened to that proposal…” It has been almost a year since we first supported a state bill that would crack down on those who make false public alarms. Events in the news of late have made us wonder whatever happened to that proposal, and…
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Raymond H. Matthews
Mr. Matthews, 70, of Union Beach, died April 23, 2007, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Perth Amboy, he was a life-long resident of Union Beach. He was a plant supervisor at E.I. DuPont for 37 years, retiring in 1991. He served on the Union Beach Fire Department, and was active in Union Beach…
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Are We There Yet?
Mom makes a mandate for thorough housecleaning Lori Clinch Much to my family’s dismay, I called a family meeting last week and made attendance mandatory. I know it sounds cruel, but a woman has to resort to tough love now and then just to keep her clan on their toes. My loved ones view family…
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Author helps pupils mark writing accomplishments
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – April 27 was a day for celebrating writing achievements at the Laura Donovan School. As part of the event, fourth-graders provided biography book presentations for parents and classmates and children’s author Elizabeth Levy provided a presentation to all pupils at the school throughout the day. In the morning, fourth-graders dressed as the…
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Coda
We don’t like the smoke, but we do like the money Greg Bean The sad fact is that we can moralize all we want about the evils of tobacco, pass all the punitive laws aimed at smokers we want, but at root we’re a society of hypocrites. There’s a word for people who drive around…
