• Driver safety effort recognized

    The Freehold Regional High School District has announced the receipt of a $1,000 prize from the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey’s “U Got Brains” Champion Schools Program. The program promotes the development and execution of teen driver safety campaigns among New Jersey high schools. “Our program has been recognized because of our efforts to…

  • Entries sought for photo contest

    MANALAPAN — The Manalapan Arts Council and Mayor Susan Cohen have announced the township’s fifth annual photo contest. The 2013 theme is “Making Memories.” The contest will be looking for pictures of any event, happening, trip, reunion, gathering or just a special moment in time that means something special for the photographer. “We encourage all…

  • Newtown superintendent: Security should be priority

    Conn. school administrator speaks at NJASA conference BY JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Janet Robinson The news of the school shooting in Newton, Conn., stunned the country on Dec. 14. But before word traveled to the national level, the shock was felt closer to home. Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson didn’t believe it at first…

  • Board, union in fact-finding stage as new deal is pursued

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Negotiations between the Manalapan- Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education and one of the district’s unions have reached the factfinding stage. The Manalapan-Englishtown Federation of Non-Instructional Personnel, Local 2198, AFT/AFL-CIO has been working under the terms of a contract that expired on June 30, 2011. During the 2010-11 school…

  • Time for Manalapan pride

    IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN Manalapan High School, which is now 40-plus years old, did not start out as an athletic powerhouse. There were some long days — sporting wise — back in the 1970s. I say that from firsthand experience as someone who attended the school from 1974-78 and wrestled for coach Dennis Tave…

  • Pupils’ artwork becomes part of district’s permanent collection

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Artwork created by pupils in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District took center stage at the March 5 meeting of the district’s Board of Education, held at the Wemrock Brook School. Seven students had their artwork added to the district’s permanent artwork collection. Following a tour of the schools…

  • Readers weigh in on failure of U.S. Do Not Call Registry

    CODA GREG BEAN No column I’ve written in months has generated as much reader response as the Feb. 27 piece concerning the apparently useless National Do Not Call Registry, and the fact that so many of us are being bombarded at all hours of the day by telemarketers — in spite of the fact that…

  • Restricting magazine capacity is not the answer

    I was among the attendees at (a recent) hearing at the State House Annex on the firearms bills being proposed by the Committee on Law and Public Safety and I was disappointed to feel that my comments, as well as those of others in attendance, fell on deaf ears. It was apparent from the very…

  • Creationism and evolution are both theories

    This is in response to Greg Bean’s recent column, “What Will You Be Doing on Darwin’s Special Day.” Our scientific knowledge comes [through] understanding information gathered through various scientific methods. This, by definition, is the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observations and experiment, and the formulation and testing of…

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