Tag: Freehold Township K-8 School District

  • Freehold Township school audit reveals no issues with finances

    Freehold Township school audit reveals no issues with finances

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – No issues were identified, meaning no recommendations for corrective action were made following the 2017-18 audit of the Freehold Township K-8 School District. The Board of Education accepted the comprehensive annual financial report (audit) for the 2017-18 school year at a meeting on March 12. In accordance with state law, the governing…

  • Amoroso, Patten to lead Freehold Township school board in 2019

    Amoroso, Patten to lead Freehold Township school board in 2019

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A new president and vice president will lead the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education during 2019. The board held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 2 and the three winning candidates from the Nov. 6 election – incumbents Mary Cozzolino and Kay Poklemba-Holtz, and newcomer Kerry Vendittoli – were…

  • Two incumbents, newcomer win Freehold Township school board seats

    Two incumbents, newcomer win Freehold Township school board seats

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Mary Cozzolino, Kay Poklemba-Holtz and Kerry Vendittoli have been elected to three-year terms on the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education. Cozzolino and Poklemba-Holtz are members of the board; Vendittoli is a newcomer who will join the panel in January. When the results were tallied on Nov. 6, Cozzolino retained…

  • Shaw named interim principal at Catena school

    Shaw named interim principal at Catena school

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – An interim principal has been named at the Joseph J. Catena School in the Freehold Township K-8 School District. On Oct. 16, the Board of Education, acting on the recommendation of Superintendent of Schools Neil Dickstein, approved district supervisor Traci Shaw as the interim principal at Catena. The position has a salary…

  • Freehold Township board names Brethauer assistant superintendent

    Freehold Township board names Brethauer assistant superintendent

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – An administrator in the Freehold Township K-8 School District has been named an assistant superintendent in the district. Dianne Brethauer, principal of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, was appointed as the assistant superintendent of human resources and technology by the Board of Education on Oct. 16. Her appointment became effective on…

  • Freehold Borough administrators prepare to return pupils to district

    Freehold Borough administrators prepare to return pupils to district

    FREEHOLD – Kindergarten pupils enrolled in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District who are educated in rented classrooms in the neighboring Freehold Township K-8 School District are expected to return to schools in their district as construction on a project to expand Freehold Borough’s schools nears completion. For several years, the Freehold Borough Board of…

  • Seven in race for three seats on Freehold Township K-8 school board

    Seven in race for three seats on Freehold Township K-8 school board

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Seven candidates are seeking three available three-year terms on the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education in the Nov. 6 election. The terms of board members Mary Cozzolino, Jason Levy and Kay Poklemba-Holtz will end in December. The candidates seeking the terms are Cozzolino, Levy, Poklemba-Holtz, Sherlock Dow, Brian Lipnicky,…

  • Two school districts mourn dedicated educator

    Two school districts mourn dedicated educator

    A principal in the Freehold Township K-8 School District who was a former student and administrator in the Sayreville School District is being remembered and mourned following his passing. Jeffrey Huguenin, 46, the principal of the Joseph J. Catena Elementary School in Freehold Township, died at his home in Howell on Oct. 7. He is…

  • Freehold Township school board names district’s new superintendent

    Freehold Township school board names district’s new superintendent

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Neal Dickstein has been named the new superintendent of schools in the Freehold Township K-8 School District. Dickstein’s appointment became official after approval from interim Monmouth County Superintendent Lester Richens and a vote from the Board of Education on Sept. 25. He will serve a four-year term from Sept. 26, 2018 through…