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In long battle over shaky degrees, taxpayers suffer
Coda • GREG BEAN The interminable dispute in the Freehold Regional High School District over administrators and teachers who got ginned-up degrees from an unaccredited and highly suspicious online diploma mill just won’t go away. Regular readers know the saga of the tale’s most highly visible player, FRHSD Superintendent of Schools James Wasser, who got…
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Fundraisers
Dec. 3 • A Taste of Spain: The Dances, Wines and Tapas of Spain, sponsored by the Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre, Old Bridge, 7-10 p.m., at Little Spain Restaurant, 582 New Brunswick Ave., Fords section of Woodbridge. Tastings of Spanish regional wines and tapas (little dishes of appetizers), flamenco and classical Spanish guitar music by…
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Arithmetickles
ERIC SUCAR staff ERIC SUCAR staff Host Matt Wilder tells students at Sayreville’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School about the next Arithmetickles game on Nov. 25. The interactive mathbased touring show blends games, skits, audience participation and comedy to capture the attention of schoolchildren. Another photo, page 38. ERIC SUCAR staff Students at Sayreville’s Dwight D.…
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Time to stop using property taxes for education
Another year has gone by and yet nothing has been done by our elected legislators to correct the unfair, and perhaps illegal, practice of funding primary and secondary education with a portion of property taxes. Why has nothing been done? Are our legislators indifferent to the problems this practice causes to the most needy? I…
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Ten years of turkey
Players face off (top) and celebrate a touchdown at the 10th annual Turkey Bowl held Thanksgiving weekend on Nov. 28 at Thorne Middle School in Middletown to benefit Jason’s Dreams for Kids. This year the Turkey Bowl touch football tournament consisted of 20 teams of 300-plus players families and friends of the event. Founded in…
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NOTESAround Town
Oceanport First Aid Squad will hold a holiday wine and food tasting party 6-10 p.m. Dec. 3 at Branches Catering, Monmouth Road, West Long Branch. Tickets are $50 each and include wine, beer and food sampling. There will also be a cash bar. Proceeds benefit Oceanport Sports Foundation. For tickets or more information, call 732-…
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Teen collecting coats for Monmouth families
BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — Tyler Hunt may only be 17, but he is already well-acquainted with the art of giving. Tyler, who is a senior at Howell High School, is the mastermind behind “A Coat for Christmas,” an annual holiday coat drive that provides warmth for less-fortunate Monmouth County families during the…
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Shore Regional Marching Band makes music — and history
The Shore Regional High School Marching Band members compete in the United States Scholastic Band Association New Jersey State Championship 1A at Sayreville War Memorial High School. The band placed fifth in a field of 20 high school marching bands. WEST LONG BRANCH — The Shore Regional High School Marching Band made school history on…
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