• Parents, students invited to open house Unitarian Society sets May 7 Spring Festival

    St. Bartholomew School, 470 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, will hold an open house for parents and prospective students 11 a.m.-2 p.m. May 15. School tours will be available. The school has half-day and full-day prekindergarten and full-day kindergarteneighth grade. Classes in art, physical education, computers, music and Spanish are offered. A computer lab, SMART-Board technology…

  • Spotswood school tab goes down by 16 votes

    Majority of Helmetta voters against regional school district budget BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer While nearly 80 percent of school budgets across the state won voters’ approval during the April 27 election, Spotswood’s was in the minority. But just barely. Residents of Spotswood and Helmetta, who share a regional school district, voted 302 to 286…

  • Benefit basketball planned for May 6

    A charity basketball game to benefit the Ryan Walp and D.J. Blish Scholarship Fund and Monroe Township High School Project Graduation is set for 7:30 p.m. May 6 at the Monroe Township Community Center, 120 Monmouth Road. The contest will feature Monroe senior boys vs. senior girls. There will be 50/50s and prizes. Cost is…

  • Dinner to raise funds for South River Scouts

    Boy Scout Troop No. 4, South River, will host its annual Pasta Dinner fundraiser 5:30-8 p.m. May 13 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 90 Leonardine Ave., South River. The menu will include penne pasta with vodka sauce, spaghetti with marinara sauce and meatballs, salad, bread, soda, water, coffee, tea and dessert. Takeouts will be available.…

  • Voters select Antelis, Chiarella, Kolupanowich

    — Christina Haberstroh Former longtime Monroe Township Board of Education member Amy Antelis won a spot back on the dais in last week’s election. “Imissed it, I really did,” she said of serving the board. She previously served from 1992 until April 2010. Antelis, in fact, was the leading vote-getter among the four candidates for…

  • Monroe board president calls vote ‘discouraging’

    School budget defeated for fourth straight year BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Monroe residents here voted overwhelmingly last week to defeat the $102.9 million budget for the 2011-12 school year. The April 27 vote was 2,262 in favor and 3,387 against the school budget, which carried a tax increase of $368 per year on the…

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    Rachel Ingler (l) of Plainsboro and Rose Reiss of Highland Park pass out candles for a processional during New Jersey’s annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Middlesex County College in Edison May 1. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Approval means no further cuts in East Brunswick

    Voters OK budget, re-elect Simmens, Spiegler and Lachs BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Preparing the annual budget has been a painful task for the East Brunswick Board of Education, but voters rewarded the board in two ways last week. Residents approved the school budget in a 2,559-2,085 vote and re-elected all three board incumbents during…

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