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Vol. 3 – No. 37 ♦
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SQUEAKING BY, BUT SPEAKING UP
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By Bill Bonvie
SHAMONG—A presentation about the various strategies that the Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) has employed to ‘squeak by’ and keep a sharp decrease in state aid from impacting its educational standards and academic achievement levels took up most of the district Board of Education’s May 1 budget meeting and public hearing. The session concluded with a video of an excursion that a group of students, faculty members and administrators conducted at the New Jersey Statehouse
on April 30 in coordination with the Support Our Students (SOS) campaign. It was led by Lenape Regional School Dist r ict Sup er i ntendent D r. Ca rol Bir nbohm and Boa rd of Education President Margaret Estlow. The demonstration was intended to back two bills that have been introduced in the state Legislature, S3625 and A5209, calling for school districts to receive no less than the amount of state aid received in the 2017-2018 school year. During the current school year, state aid to the LRHSD has been reduced by $961,456 after the school budget had been
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A group of students, faculty members and administrators from the Lenape Regional High School District who demonstrated on April 30 in front of the state capital.
Corrected Ballots Go to 451 Voters in Southampton By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
Students and Staff from Lenape Regional School District Protest Ongoing Cuts in State Aid at Rally in Trenton, Economies Emphasized at School Board Budget Session
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passed and approved, according to figures supplied at the meeting. In the upcoming school year, a reduction of $961,300 is anticipated, amounting to a 3.39 percent decrease in state aid. “If this continues over the next five years, our district is going to lose $8,300,000 in funding from the state,” declared David Stow, chairman of the board’s Finance and Insurance Committee, who conducted the presentation. “So that is what the future looks like if Trenton doesn’t change things.” Commenting on “the impact for us as See SPEAKING/ Page 14
SOU T H A M P TON — O ne we ek a f ter erroneous mail-in ballots were distributed to Southampton Township voters who requested to vote by mail in a June 4 Republican primary, corrected ballots were mailed to affected voters. The Pine Barrens Tribune learned this week from new Burlington County Public Information Officer Nicholas Gangemi that the erroneous mail-in ballots were not only sent by the Burlington County Clerk’s Office to Southampton Republican voters, but also to unaffiliated Southampton voters. The corrected ballots began arriving in the mailboxes of affected voters on May 4. Ac c om p a ny i ng t h e ba l lot s wa s a n unapologetic letter addressed to voters about the mishap (there were two versions, depending on whether the voter was a Republican or unaffiliated), signed on May 1 by Deputy Burlington County Clerk Wade Hale. The letter was written on the clerk’s office letterhead, with Democratic Burlington County Clerk Joanne Schwartz’s work contact information listed. Hale, a holdover from the Republican administration of Timothy Tyler—who lost to Schwartz in November 2018—said that Daniel L. James was listed as running for Southampton Township Committee on the previous ballots due to a “printing error.” James was a one-time deputy mayor of Washington Township, who resigned last year from the Washington Township Committee. At the time of his departure, the municipality was beleaguered by a controversy that included the alleged tampering with and disappearance See BALLOTS/ Page 22
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