Middletown school budget at 10-year low
District spending plan proposes 2.6 percent increase
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      MIDDLETOWN — The Board of Education is proposing a budget that will be the district's lowest proposed tax increase in the past decade. The Board of Education will hold a public hearing on its 2009-2010 budget at the March 31 voting meeting.
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District seeks bids for busing private school students
Cost last year was in excess of state limits
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer
      HOLMDEL — Concerned parents filled the library at the William R. Satz School at a recent Board of Education meeting to question school officials about transportation issues for students attending private schools March 11.
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Hazlet school officials stump for budget
Proposed spending plan calls for 2.46 percent increase
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      HAZLET — Superintendent of Schools William O. George III will talk to anyone who will listen about the district's budget, and is trying to get as many people as he can to get out and vote on April 21. The district's proposed budget is $47,244,902, which is a 2.46 percent increase over the 2...
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Seventh-graders steeped in history of Mid'town
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      MIDDLETOWN — George Washington once wrote a letter in Amanda Pepe's house, though it occurred more than 200 years before she was actually born. That fact was one of many included in a presentation titled "Middletown in the Revolutionary War," a project that seventh-grade students at Thompso...
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