Tag: Old Bridge School District
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Southwood recognized by national PTO
OLD BRIDGE — Southwood Elementary School is an inclusive and welcoming school where all families contribute to the educational experience and overall well-being for all students. And for that, the elementary school was one of two New Jersey schools and 143 schools across the country recognized by the National Parent Teacher Association as a 2017-2019…
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Old Bridge school achieves Blue Ribbon status
OLD BRIDGE — Already a National School of Character, the Old Bridge School District can now add a National Blue Ribbon School to its list of honors. Cheesequake Elementary School is the first school in Old Bridge to be recognized as a Blue Ribbon School. “The selection of Cheesequake Elementary School as our first National…
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Old Bridge School District child find notice
The Old Bridge School District provides special education and related services to disabled children/students ages three to 21 who are in need of special education. Parents/guardians may call the district’s Office of Special Services if their child is disabled due to physical, sensory, emotional, communication, cognitive or social difficulties. For children three to five years…
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Old Bridge fighting opiate addiction epidemic
OLD BRIDGE — The Municipal Alliance coordinator position has been expanded to a full-time role. Three entities — the Old Bridge Township School District, Old Bridge Township and Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge — banded together to not only extend the coordinator into a full-time role, but set forth resources…
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Holiday Knight event will honor teen who died from cancer
OLD BRIDGE – Old Bridge High School (OBHS) will kick off its 2017 varsity football season with a “Holiday Knight” Toy Drive in memory of Marisa Tufaro, a 13-year-old who died of Stage IV cancer. Marisa was born with a complex cardiac defect. She survived six open-heart surgeries and two life-threatening medical conditions prior to…
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Sayreville ice hockey team receives support from parents
SAYREVILLE – A potential ice hockey program in the Sayreville School District is receiving support from parents. Residents voiced their support of the program, which currently does not exist in the district, at a Board of Education meeting on July 18. The support from residents came after a board discussion of the potential program at…
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Parents seek programs for adults with special needs in Old Bridge
OLD BRIDGE — Parents and guardians of special needs children are seeking the township’s help for an adult center for their children as they age out of the school district. “Once they turn 21 [years old], they are no longer involved in school and we need to find something for them to do,” said Barry…
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Potential ice hockey team debated in Sayreville
SAYREVILLE – Whether the Sayreville School District will have an ice hockey program is a topic of debate among Board of Education members. Superintendent of Schools Richard Labbe said, during a June 13 board meeting, that he had been contacted by parents about creating an ice hockey program at Sayreville War Memorial High School when…
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Schools collect more than 60 tons of food for county food bank
School districts in Woodbridge, East Brunswick and Old Bridge collected 12,850, 12,000 and 10,700 pounds of food, respectively, for the county food bank in the past year. The East Brunswick, Monroe and Perth Amboy districts had 100 percent of their schools participating in the food drive, which netted 135,000 pounds – or 64.5 tons –…