• Election winners face fiscal challenges on Monroe board

    Antelis loses bid for seventh term on board in four-person race BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — Newcomer Louis C. Masters was “extremely surprised” when he was recently elected to his first term on the Board of Education. “Going into this, everybody was kind of saying ‘You’re not going to win this, you’re…

  • Artists sought for E.B. Fine Arts Festival

    The township of East Brunswick, Division of Recreation and Community Services and the East Brunswick Arts Commission will sponsor the eighth annual Fine Arts Festival, an outdoor juried show and sale of fine art and crafts, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 5 around the pond at the East Brunswick municipal complex, Jean Walling Civic Center, Ryders…

  • New meeting location for area MOMS Club

    The Spotswood Area MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Club has changed the location of its monthly meetings. Moms interested in joining the Spotswood, Helmetta, Milltown and Monroe group may now attend meetings on the third Thursday of every month at the Polish American Citizens Club, 66 Adirondack Ave., Spotswood. Children are welcome; there will be…

  • Defeated budget in hands of council’s education committee

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer JAMESBURG — The Borough Council’s education committee will meet with Board of Education members to determine what will happen to the defeated school budget. “They will bring back recommendations,” Mayor Anthony LaMantia said. The council will then vote on the recommendations at its May 12 meeting. “We’ll discuss it…

  • Strike a pose

    Sarah Popper and Madison Mazure pose while illustrator and author Chris Soentpiet sketches a picture of them during his recent visit to Monroe’s Woodland School. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • E.B. charter school names its founding principal

    EAST BRUNSWICK — The Hatikvah International Academy Charter School has announced the hiring of Colin Hogan, an award-winning educator with a background in public, charter and private schools, as its founding principal. Hogan will officially take on the position in July but is already working to finalize the curriculum and hire teachers, according to a…

  • Voters reject E.B. school tab; elect four to board

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — As in many Middlesex County school districts, township voters rejected the Board of Education’s 2010-11 budget April 20. Out of nearly 7,500 residents who cast votes in the school election, 4,035 went against the tax levy that supports the $129 million school budget. Only 3,347 were in…

  • Milltown school tab goes down by nearly 2-1 margin

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Milltown School District’s roundly defeated budget is now in the hands of the Borough Council. Residents last week rejected the Milltown Board of Education’s $13.8 million spending plan, which would have raised taxes by $359 on the average home. Schools Superintendent Linda Madison said her administration and members of the…

  • Antoinette J. “Chickie” Dimino

    Mrs. Dimino, 79, a resident of Belford for 48 years, died April 24, 2012, at her home. She worked at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, for many years. Mrs. Dimino was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Dimino, in 2004. She is survived by a daughter, Jo Anne Genovese and her husband, John; a…

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