Tag: Millstone Township K-8 School District

  • Author visits Millstone school, offers pupils tips for writing stories

    Author visits Millstone school, offers pupils tips for writing stories

    MILLSTONE – Elementary school children in Millstone Township recently had the opportunity to meet with a New Jersey author. On May 18, author Wendy Mass visited the Millstone Township Elementary School as part of an event organized by reading specialists Nicole Filippone and Colleen Henkin and funded by the Millstone Township PTO. Filippone and Henkin…

  • Millstone Township school board adopts $38.7M budget for 2018-19

    Millstone Township school board adopts $38.7M budget for 2018-19

    MILLSTONE – The Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a $38.7 million budget that will fund the operation of the district during the 2018-19 school year. The budget will be supported by a tax levy of $31.5 million to be paid by the township’s residential and commercial property owners. Other revenue includes…

  • Millstone pupils create resource kit in ongoing fight vs. phragmites

    Millstone pupils create resource kit in ongoing fight vs. phragmites

    MILLSTONE – With new resources created and a first place finish at a state competition, pupils from the Millstone Township K-8 School District are continuing their project to spread awareness of an invasive plant species. A group of pupils at the Millstone Township Middle School and the Millstone Township Elementary School who call themselves the…

  • School budget introduced in Millstone

    School budget introduced in Millstone

    MILLSTONE – The Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education has introduced a $38.7 million budget that will fund the operation of the district during the 2018-19 school year. Following a discussion among district administrators and board members, the budget was introduced on March 26. A public hearing is scheduled for April 30. The…

  • ‘Phragmites Phighters’ take next step in informing pupils of invasive plant

    ‘Phragmites Phighters’ take next step in informing pupils of invasive plant

    MILLSTONE – Continuing their project to spread awareness of an invasive plant species, a group of pupils from the Millstone Township K-8 School District have created a prototype of an eBook for younger children. Pupils at the Millstone Township Middle School and the Millstone Township Elementary School who call themselves the Phearless Phragmites Phighters are…

  • Millstone Township educators recognized for efforts, dedication

    Millstone Township educators recognized for efforts, dedication

    MILLSTONE – Administrators in the Millstone Township K-8 School District have named the district’s teachers of the year. At the Millstone Township Primary School, where pupils in pre-kindergarten through second grade are educated, the Teacher of the Year is kindergarten teacher Lori Hanson. Principal Paul Baker said Hanson has taught at the school for three…

  • Comedy comes to the high seas in pupils’ production of ‘Anything Goes’

    Comedy comes to the high seas in pupils’ production of ‘Anything Goes’

    MILLSTONE – Students at the Millstone Township Middle School are getting ready to ship out for a production of the popular musical “Anything Goes.” “Anything Goes” will be performed March 2 and March 3 at 7 p.m. and March 4 at 2 p.m. at the Millstone Performing Arts Center in the Millstone Township Middle School,…

  • DePinho elected president of Millstone school board

    DePinho elected president of Millstone school board

    MILLSTONE – A new president will lead the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education during 2018, while the board member who served as vice president during 2017 will remain in that position. The board held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 3 and the three winning candidates from the Nov. 7 election –…

  • Student pens winning essay

    Student pens winning essay

    MILLSTONE – An eighth grade student in the Millstone Township K-8 School District has been recognized for winning a writing competition. Lana Maizel, a student at the Millstone Township Middle School, recently appeared before the Board of Education to read the essay she wrote near the end of 2017. Students in Monmouth and Ocean counties…