Tag: Maria Portales Agency

  • Metuchen school receives grant to fund STREAM program

    Metuchen school receives grant to fund STREAM program

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Testing car speeds with speed guns and air resistance with parachutes are the types of activities that fourth-graders at St. Francis Cathedral School are experiencing through the school’s STREAM club. STREAM stands for Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. The school’s club is the recipient of a…

  • Grants to aid teachers, students in Woodbridge, Edison

    Grants to aid teachers, students in Woodbridge, Edison

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Three educators in Middlesex County will benefit from $2,500 Farmers Insurance grants for their students awarded by the company’s Thank America’s Teachers program. Mark Willenbrock, an instrumental music teacher at Colonia Middle School, Melissa McDonald, a fourth-grade teacher at St. James School in Woodbridge, and Deacon Richard Lutomski,…