The following was submitted by Ward 3 Councilman Jeffrey J. Carr and is published unedited per our letters policy. It hardly seems it but, spring has arrived. Along with it comes yard work, Little League baseball and the Toms River Food Fest. The Toms River Little League season got underway on April 6th. It [...]
TRENTON–New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher today announced, for the fourth year in a row, a team of high school students from the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Sciences (MATES) in Manahawkin was the winner of the New Jersey Envirothon, held Saturday, May 4 at Girl Scout Camp Kettle Run in Medford. [...]
The following was submitted by Donna Bahrle with the Central Regional School District in Berkeley Township. BERKELEY – Central Regional TV Productions students won county and state contests and film festival awards for their video productions surrounding the events of Hurricane Sandy. Senior Austin Steinbrick recently took the award for Best Documentary in the Ocean [...]
TRENTON–The New Jersey Department of Education today announced grant awards to assist school communities as they recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy. These funds, made possible through a $1.25 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Education’s Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) program, are available to districts to fund short- and long-term [...]
JACKSON-Students at St. Aloysius created life sized history displays that included themselves for a recent school project. After completing a biographical book report, the 4th grade students dressed in character and posed as wax figures that suddenly came to life at the touch of a button.
The Central Regional Education Association and the Central Regional Foundation will be co-sponsoring a “Jeans Day” fundraiser (staff will make donations in order to wear jeans to work) in each school for the Thinking of You Thursdays lunch fund, which will provide the entire staff of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with a [...]
In response to ever-escalating costs of trash disposal and a determination to decrease the carbon footprint, Ocean County Vocational Technical School district is embarking on a cutting-edge approach to waste management. In collaboration with Waste Management Inc., OCVTS is the first school district in Ocean County to take on the challenge of ‘Zero Landfill Waste,’ [...]
Ocean County Vocational Technical School (OCVTS) will offer the NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, a 10-month, full-time, hands-on construction class which will build a house, on-site in Ocean County. Classroom instruction will prepare students for each phase of construction as well as explore theory and techniques of the building process. Students will develop and apply skills [...]
The following is a release from Ocean County Vocational Technical School: (OCVTS) announces Cuisine on the Green, the new Ocean County Culinary Arts Training Center, located at the Atlantis Golf Club in Little Egg Harbor. The Culinary Arts Training Center offers adult students the opportunity to pursue their career goals in the culinary profession. Students [...]
The following was received by the Central Regional School District. BERKELEY TOWNSHIP -The Central Regional High School Guidance Department has incorporated the robust, interactive college search engine offered by College Board called “BigFuture” as a link on our high school guidance webpage to assist students and families with their college decision-making process. College Board is [...]