Construction begins on $106.1M project
Elementary, middle school overcrowding to be addressed
BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer
     A years-in-the-making plan to bring additions to East Brunswick schools and ease elementary and middle school overcrowding is finally under way.
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Public hearing set for $122M school budget
E.B. officials say 2006-07 budget funds necessities, little else
BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer
     EAST BRUNSWICK - The last five years have presented an unwelcome challenge for the Board of Education.
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School tab includes tax hike, position cuts
Spotswood board does away with auto class, instructional aides
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer
     SPOTSWOOD - The tax rate would go up 10 cents under a 2006-07 school budget adopted Tuesday night by the Board of Education.
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Stardom
     Applegarth Middle School student Jeremy Grossman, as the Prince of Dauntless, and Olivia Restive, as Princess Winnifred, work on a scene from "Once Upon a Mattress" during a dress rehearsal Monday. The show will be performed at 7 o'clock tonight and tomorrow at Monroe Township High School's Mar
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Three incumbents face challenge in BOE race
Three full terms and one two-year seat up for grabs in E.B.
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer
     EAST BRUNSWICK - The field of five candidates seeking four seats on the Board of Education offers a combination of experience and change.
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Acting out
     Jeremy Grossman rehearses Monday for "Once Upon a Mattress." He and other Applegarth Middle School students will present the show at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow at Monroe Township High School's Marasco Performing Arts Center, Perrineville Road.
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Chinese Heritage School fills key language gap
Program one of few in area specializing in Cantonese dialect
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer
     SOUTH BRUNSWICK - A teaching assistant sits at the front of a room, before an audience of about 11 4-year-olds, and asks her class for things they can do with one's hands. They respond with answers such as washing their face and brushing their teeth. A pause.
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Dance with me
     Moussa Zaklikovsky (r), 6, of Monroe, dances with MollyJo Thompson, 7, of Morganville, at a recent celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim at Monroe Township High School.
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Acting the part
     Applegarth Middle School's Jeffrey Intravatola, as Sir Henry, and Renee LaPlante, as Lady Larkin, rehearse a scene from "Once Upon a Mattress." The show will run tonight and tomorrow at the Marasco Performing Arts Center at Monroe Township High School.
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