Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Are We There Yet?
Kids think she’s living life in the slow lane Lori Clinch I let my 17-year-old son Vernon drive our children to school on a regular basis.Crazy, isn’t it? I load the kids into his truck, buckle them in and then have a nervous breakdown as they back out of the driveway. Although I fear for…
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MEMS pupils dispersed to elementary schools
Construction crews working to complete additions, renovations BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Construction materials and tools line the hallways in an addition being built at the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, Millhurst Road. When the school was not ready to open on Sept. 11, pupils were sent to elementary schools for half-day sessions.…
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Obituaries
Florence E. Hemmes Young Mrs. Young, 86, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, died Aug. 30 at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Staten Island, N.Y., she resided in Plainsboro, prior to moving to Dayton seven years ago. She was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Norman Young. She is…
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Obituaries
Helen Hogan Mrs. Hogan, 87, of Middletown, died Aug. 20 at Montgomery Care Center, Freehold Township. Born in Middletown, she was a lifelong resident. Mrs. Hogan was a security person at Food Circus Foodtown, Middletown, from 1977 until her retirement in 1990. She was predeceased by her husband, William Frederick Hogan Sr., in 1977. She…
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Coda
In this debate, money talks, principle walks Greg Bean Wrap it in all the highfalutin language about principles you want, but when you get to the nub, for the East Brunswick Board of Education, it’s all about the money. I was saddened last week to learn that despite losing a lawsuit brought by East Brunswick…
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Your Turn
Plan for homes would have heavy impact on Manalapan James Gray Guest Column James GrayGuest Column If Manalapan did not receive a wake-up call after the Planning Board approved the mega-mall plan last month, it should now thanks to the News Transcript’s latest editorial regarding the developer’s request to add 500 homes to its project…
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Extra help to be offered to pupils deemed at risk
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – The Manalapan Englishtown Middle School (MEMS) will be looking to enter a “safe harbor” for the 2006-07 school year following the determination that it did not meet every criteria set by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Extra help will be offered…
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High schools welcome new activities directors
Freehold Regional ready for return of 11,800 students BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer With the start of the 2006-07 academic year for the Freehold Regional High School District upon them, students who are returning to begin the new year should notice that the six high schools are not quite…
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Manalapan-Englishtown schools to open Sept. 11
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer As the days of summer wind down in Manalapan and Englishtown, the boys, and girls, of summer are preparing to start a new school year on Sept. 11. Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Superintendent of Schools Maureen Lally said about 5,500 children in kindergarten through eighth grade…
