• T.F. BOE revises budget to reflect $1.3M aid cut

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — The Tinton Falls Board of Education presented a tentative 2010-11 budget earlier this month based on a state aid reduction of 15 percent. When the state announced aid figures two weeks ago, the district learned it would lose 31 percent of state aid, or $1.3 million, and…

  • Global Understanding focus at Monmouth U. April 5-8

    WEST LONG BRANCH — The Monmouth University Institute for Global Understanding will host the ninth annual Global Understanding Convention April 5- 8. The campus-wide interdisciplinary convention is free and open to the public. This year’s convention, “Change and Stability in Global Environments,” will focus on the multiple environments such as economic, social, cultural, philosophical, biological,…

  • Fair Haven tax rate to drop for third year

    But school taxes may rise due to state aid cuts, more students BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — Residents could see a half-cent drop in the municipal tax rate under the proposed borough budget, but the good news might be offset by a possible $11.55 million school budget that would increase the local school…

  • Audubon Society offers scholarships

    The Monmouth County Audubon Society has announced that the organization will sponsor up to $3,000 in scholarships for the fall 2010 semester. “Thanks to the generosity of one former member,” said Harden Fowler, the organization’s conservation chairman and the creator of this program, “our organization will be sponsoring this annual scholarship for the foreseeable future.…

  • Boys & Girls Club R.B. unit open and growing

    Membership expected to grow to 400-plus BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth County (BGC) held the long-awaited grand opening of its Red Bank unit on March 22 and announced plans to expand programming for teens and add a summer program. Rosemary Rebimbas helps Ariel Morris, both Red Bank, with…

  • Red Bank BOE votes down teachers’ contract

    State aid cuts, charter school deplete district funding BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Red Bank Board of Education (BOE) voted against a contract that included a salary increase for the district’s 132 unionized employees during a meeting on March 23. Middle school music teacher Holcombe Hurd. KIMBERLY STEINBERG The 6-2 vote comes after more…

  • A new place to learn and grow

    Tennile Wing, Red Bank, works at a computer station during the grand opening of the new Boys & Girls Club location in Red Bank on March 22. Story and photos page 3. CHRIS KELLY

  • After cuts in education will come a ‘teachable moment’

    Coda • GREG BEAN Our clan no longer has children in public schools in New Jersey, but I certainly don’t envy the parents of children who are attending those institutions these days. As we all know, the bill for years of mismanagement, overspending and prolific waste at the state level has finally come due, and…

  • R.B. delivers bad news

    DuPont warns of layoffs, service reductions BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Red Bank Councilman Michael DuPont delivered bad news to residents at the March 22 Borough Council meeting, saying “the worst-case scenario” would now be a reality.   Councilman Michael DuPont DuPont, who chairs the council’s Finance Committee, said layoffs, furloughs and reductions in services…

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