Vol. 24 - No. 48
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THE MANCHESTER
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March 16, | |October 27,2019 2018
Tentative School Budget Adoption Scheduled Letters Page 8.
Government Page 9.
Community News! Don’t miss what’s happening in your town.
Pages 10-14.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
By Jennifer Peacock LAKEHURST – The Lakehurst Board of Education has tentatively scheduled its 2019-2020 budget adoption for 7 p.m. March 19, with a board workshop starting at 6:30 p.m. Its next regularly scheduled board meeting is
7 p.m. April 16. The figures for its 2019-2020 proposed budget were not available at press time. However, a copy of the district’s “user friendly” budget from 2018-19 was available, showing a proposed total operating budget of
$8.5 million, $1.2 million of that to be raised through local taxes. One challenge facing the approximately 376-student district is how its $1 million mold remediation bill will be paid. School officials (Budget - See Page 5)
First Aid Squads Face Lack Of Volunteers Manchester Student Takes Third In VFW National Competition
Your Hearing Aid Will Only Last About 4.5 Years. Why?
Page 18.
Dear Pharmacist Page 19.
Inside The Law Page 21.
Business Directory Page 24-25.
Classifieds Page 23.
Wolfgang Puck Page 31.
–Photo by Jennifer Peacock (Left) Former Manchester Police Chief and Manchester First Aid Life Member Brian Klimakowski responds to reports that the township is considering going to paid EMS. Behind him sit current Police Chief Lisa Parker and Captain Todd Malland. (Right) Chief Lisa Parker discusses her findings about the township’s two first aid squads. By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – The two volunteer first aid squads in Manchester cannot keep up with the rising demands for service
amidst its aging population and lack of new volunteers, township officials said. But the answer to that problem may not be forming a paid first aid
unit, which detractors warn will cost millions that taxpayers just don’t have. Police Chief Lisa Parker, who (First Aid - See Page 4)
–Photo courtesy Manchester Twp. School District Andrew Dodd won third place and a $10,000 scholarship in the VFW 2018-19 Voice of Democracy contest.
BOE Honors Eagle Scout
By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – The Manchester Board of Education recognized MATES student and township resident Eric Lawrence Derco for earning the rank of Eagle Scout. Eric is a member of Troop 441. He created a 400-square-foot butterf ly garden at MATES. The garden, certified as a Monarch Waystation site, contains 100 native New Jersey plants. MATES - Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science - is a specialized high school in Stafford Township, part of (Eagle - See Page 5)
–Photo courtesy Manchester Twp. School District Eric Derco was honored by Board President Jackie Bermudez and Superintendent David Trethaway.
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By Jennifer Peacock WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Manchester Township High School senior won third place and a $10,000 scholarship in the Veterans of Foreign Wars 2018-19 Voice of Democracy contest. Andrew Dodd, Whiting, placed third nationally out of more than 40,000 entrants
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