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Officials respond to school calendar revision concerns
Parents, students question rescheduling of graduation BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Parents and students are raising concern about the way school officials responded to the loss of nearly two weeks of school due to Hurricane Sandy. The greatest point of contention was the decision to extend the school year to Monday, June…
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Monroe students embrace veterans throughout school year
Flag presentation on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day culminates months of events BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer The U.S. Marine Corps 6th Motor Transport Battalion presents Monroe Middle School Principal Chari Chanley and Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Hamilton with a flag from the World Trade Center in New York during a Salute to Veterans assembly held…
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Unexpected hero shepherds woman to safety
Harley, an 11-year-old dog, gave notice of carbon monoxide alarm during Hurricane Sandy BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Harley, an 11-year-old German shepherd, saved Mrs. Kovacs after carbon monoxide filled the house she was staying at during Hurricane Sandy. SOUTH RIVER — One family in the borough can attribute making it safely through Hurricane Sandy to…
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Light the night
Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky, of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe, addresses the crowd before lighting what is described as New Jersey’s largest menorah at the corner of Perrineville and Prospect Plains roads in Monroe on Dec. 9. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rabbi Zaklikovsky (l-r) and congregants Jacob Roitman and David Rothman light the giant menorah…
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Grateful to ambulance-services director, squad
I n June I will have lived in Monroe Township for 40 years, 32 on First Avenue in Mill Lake Manor and eight in Renaissance at Monroe on Route 33. I have known Judy Olbrys, director of municipal ambulance services in Monroe, and Mayor Richard Pucci for many of those years. I realize that most…
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CODA
Nothing says the holidays like bars on the cell door GREG BEAN I don’t know what Peter F. Burnham — the larcenous ex-president of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft — will be doing this holiday season, or the one after, but it’s a sure bet he won’t be throwing a lavish party for friends and…
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Squad seeks supplies for hurricane victims
The Jamesburg First Aid Squad, 225 Gatzmer Ave., is collecting supplies to assist victims of superstorm Sandy. Donations may be dropped off 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays and 8 to 9 p.m. weeknights until Dec. 15. Items sought include face masks, cleaning gloves, sponges, scrub brushes, heavyduty garbage bags, mops, brooms, laundry detergent, dish…
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Holiday carriage rides planned in Jamesburg
The annual narrated Horse-Drawn Holiday Carriage Rides Through Historic Jamesburg are slated for 7-9 p.m. Dec. 13, with rides leaving from the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, 175 Gatzmer Ave., at the corner of Church Street. The event is sponsored by the Jamesburg Historical Society, the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg and the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition. Jamesburg…
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J’burg school officials assess storm damage
Calendar is revised amid parents’ concerns BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer JAMESBURG — As communities throughout the region continue recovering from damages incurred during Hurricane Sandy, school districts such as Jamesburg are tallying their costs. To that end, the Jamesburg Board of Education approved a resolution acknowledging a litany of district facility damages as well…
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