Redistricting expected to ease overcrowding
Students being moved to new school in September
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer
      MONROE - The Board of Education has introduced a plan to redistrict students in light of the new elementary school slated to open in September. Moving students to the newly constructed Oak Tree Elementary School, on Applegarth Road, will help to alleviate overcrowding at the Brookside and Barcla...
More ...

Residents have brushes with two rabid animals
E.B. woman's dog kills rabid fox that approached her
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer
      The year's first two cases of rabies in Middlesex County involved a raccoon in one case and a fox in the other. In Monroe, an unidentified resident contended with an antagonistic raccoon on Jan. 15; and in East Brunswick, Becky Blumig, 24, and her dog had a run-in with a rabid fox on Jan. 6.
More ...

Lawmakers pass new school-funding formula
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer
      Lawmakers in the state Senate and General Assembly narrowly passed a bill that would radically alter the way that state aid is apportioned to local school districts, after a tooth-and-nail struggle that, as one assemblyman observed, fell mostly along geographic lines.
More ...

Students learn horrors, challenges of injuries
Two men share advice on avoiding spinal cord injuries
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer
      OLD BRIDGE - Tom Spadaro and Sam Spencer want to make sure schoolchildren do not end up like them. Though the two men have learned to live happy and healthy lives after suffering major spinal cord injuries, they paid a visit to the Voorhees Elementary School Friday in order to teach kids how to ...
More ...

Programs for students' day off planned in E.B.
      The East Brunswick Public Schools Department of Community Programs will sponsor two programs for East Brunswick Public Schools students from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 15 (a district-wide staff development day and no school for students) at Frost Elementary School, 65 Frost Ave.
More ...