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Cub Scout Pack 4
Cidalia Pisco places another bag of clothing on the pile of donations collected by members of Cub Scout Pack 4 of South River. The Scouts coordinated a months-long drive for slightly used clothing and, after packing the items at the South River Primary School Saturday, they delivered the items to Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick.…
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E.B. school tab calls for numerous layoffs
2010-11 budget would also increase tax rate by 3% BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Hundreds of teachers, administrators and staff members turned out Monday to learn of extensive cuts being proposed by the East Brunswick Board of Education. School Business Administrator Bernardo Giuliani said at the meeting that the board is facing an $8.4 million…
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Monroe dist. reeling from massive state aid cut
Layoffs, program cuts in works, superintendent says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Stunned would be an appropriate word to describe the reaction of Monroe Township Schools Superintendent Kenneth R. Hamilton to Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address last week. Hamilton was crunching numbers to try to deal with the district’s $4.4 million cut in…
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Chabad of East Brunswick
Rabbi Aryeh Goodman of the Chabad of East Brunswick passes the ground wheat kernels during the annual Model Matzah Bakery and Model Sedar event at the ShopRite store on Route 18 Sunday. The interactive family Passover exhibit re-creates a functional model of the handmade matzah factories used by Jews for thousands of years. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it
Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…
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Assemblymen did nothing to avert fiscal difficulties
Start making your list for the next state Assembly election. We already have two candidates who don’t deserve to be reelected: Patrick J. Diegan Jr. and Peter J. Barnes III, based on their letter to the editor, “Christie’s Action Raids School Funds, Raises Taxes,” in the Feb. 25 issue of the Sentinel. The state is…
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Calls for facilities to give homeless better chance to find a job
I wonder how they survive in the snow, freezing temperatures and driving rain. I’m not talking about dogs and cats — they are being taken care of in upgraded shelters, from what I read in the newspapers. I’m talking about the approximately 450 homeless men who live in Middlesex County. Of these 450 men, about…
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Green Acres funds should be used in N.B., not E.B.
Greg Bean, wake up! Regarding your editorial on “Preserving farm for open space would be a winner,” first, you are abusing your privileges as an editor to write a nearly fullpage letter about preserving a farm that is across the street from your house as open space. Second, your section of East Brunswick already has…
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Give up rebate to prevent education cuts, hikes?
Republican Gov. Chris Christie is in the process of changing direction in the way business is conducted in New Jersey. Previous Democratic governors, i.e., Jim Florio, James Mc- Greevey, Richard Codey and Jon Corzine, governed from the prospective of providing more and more services and programs for their constituents. While these are laudable pursuits, they…
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