District seeks to define discretionary spending
Commissioner: Preschool expansion funding uncertain
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      MIDDLETOWN — The school district is looking for specifics in order to comply with a broad mandate from the state commissioner of education to freeze all nonessential and discretionary spending. The problem for school districts, Middletown Superintendent Karen Bilbao said at the Jan.
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Rappaport is Mat-Ab school psychologist
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer
      MATAWAN — The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education has approved the placement of former Supervisor of Special Services Helen Rappaport as a school psychologist.
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Mid'town BOE resumes workshop meetings
Meeting format altered to allow for public comment at start
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      MIDDLETOWN — Just a month after suspending monthly workshop sessions, the township Board of Education decided that the sessions should be reinstated because they benefit the board and the public. "This is only to reinstate our February [18] meeting and we'll see how it goes and go forward f...
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Keyport students create solar art
Projects aim to encourage wider use of solar power
      KEYPORT — Seventh-graders at Keyport Central School are using their creativity to encourage the use of solar power by designing artistic solar panels.
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'If you want your wish'
     PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Robert Christie, a student at William R. Satz School in Holmdel, rehearses his role as The Wolf in the school's production of the musical "Into the Woods, Jr." on Jan. 27. Below: Danielle Habiloy (l-r) tries a glass slipper on Dominique Balsamo while Isabella DeGre...
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Honori ng service
     PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Above: Fifth-graders at St. Mary School in Middletown sing the national anthem on Jan. 29 during an assembly honoring U.S. troops on active duty. Left: Science teacher Richard Muhlenbruck thanks the school community for the proclamation awarded to his son, James, who is de...
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