• Rock on!

    Top: At the 7 a.m. hour on Sunday morning, after 20 hours of rocking in their chairs, students at North Brunswick Township High School talk to keep awake during the school’s 25th annual Rock-a-Thon 24-hour rocking chair marathon. Nearly 100 students participated and raised $12,200 to go toward care packages for troops overseas through Operation…

  • N.B.’s Judd Elementary shows off its bulldog spirit

    School officials deliver ‘State of the School’ address Feb. 17 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Arthur M. Judd Elementary School is characterized by smiling bulldogs. True, the bulldog is the North Brunswick school’s mascot, but it also represents the nature of the students and the way instruction is conducted. Such was the…

  • Five of six N.B. schools did not meet NCLB guidelines

    Special-ed. subgroups did not meet 2008-09 goals, but officials proud of improvements BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Although five of the six schools within the North Brunswick school district have not met federal performance goals according to the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), officials are proud of improvements in test…

  • Students volley for a cure against cancer

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Students at Crossroads North Middle School played volleyball for hours after school on Friday to benefit cancer research and treatment. The seventh- and eighth-grade students of the Tau unit at the middle school, a group of over 100 students, raised money over the course of several weeks…

  • ‘Mathletes’ take part in winter Olympics at school

    Monmouth Junction School holds schoolwide Math games BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer While athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics have been competing in Canada for weeks, youngsters a little closer to home recently had an Olympics of their very own. Above: Students in Marietta Knight’s kindergarten class practice writing numbers at the Math Olympics held…

  • Community service part of District 20 wrestling tourney

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent The mind-set on the mat is altogether different now that the concept of team wrestling has ended with the conclusion of the district wrestling championships this past weekend. Beginning this past Tuesday, when the Region V Tournament kicked off with its preliminary round at Hunterdon Central High School in Flemington, and…

  • Battling for the ball

    Left: North Brunswick Township High School’s Megan Yoffredo (42) tries to bring down a rebound during the first half of a basketball game against Old Bridge High School at NBTHS on Feb. 17. Above: Old Bridge’s Jasmine Jackson (31) and North Brunswick’s Durva Bhandare battle for the ball. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Mayor’s Cup

    The South Brunswick Vikings seventh-grade girls travel basketball team won the annual North Brunswick Mayor’s Cup with a win over the North Brunswick Raiders eighth-grade girls team. The Vikings got to the final with a semifinal win over Edison. In the final championship game, the Vikings beat the Raiders, 57-36. Pictured are: front row (l-r)…

  • ‘George Segal Everyman’

    The Monmouth Museum is hosting a series of events in conjunction with an exhibit of works by internationally acclaimed artist George Segal. “George Segal, Italian Restaurant, 1998” “George Segal Everyman: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings” offers a diverse overview of the late artist’s career and features his signature life-size, plaster cast sculptures, as well as portrait…

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