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Evesham Residents, Officials Turn Out to Celebrate Victory of the Marlton Chiefs, Whose Members Clinched the Cal Ripken World Series for Players No Older Than 10
Photos By Andrew King The Marlton Chiefs 10U baseball team with their coaches in the background.
EVESHAM—It was the sort of gala celebration that one would ordinarily expect to witness following a big city’s baseball team’s winning a World Championship, such as the one staged last year by Atlanta, the “Home of the Braves,” rather than conducted in a community of just over 45,000 residents. But to the officials and residents of Evesham Township— and the rest of Burlington County as well — the glory of being the home base of the Marlton Chiefs, the team that managed to come out on top in this year’s 10U (10 and under) Cal Ripken World Series on Aug. 13, was, in a sense, even more meaningful than that symbolized by the attainment of a Major League championship.
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SHAMONG—The first round of renovations to the Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD)’s four main institutions, Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and Shawnee high schools, are said to be moving along ahead of the Sept. 7 start of the 202223 school year, with financial moves already being made by the district for future phases of Theconstruction.renovations are being funded through a voter-approved, $66.6 million “taxneutral” bond referendum that passed last November, with the state giving the district about $24 million in “special state aid” toward the planned projects, or covering about 36 percent of the total project costs. Meanwhile the “deletion” of a COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandate for school staff occurred without any fanfare, even though it was not a unanimous school board decision.According to Superintendent Dr. Carol Birnbohm, who provided an update on the progress of the construction during an Aug. 24 LRHSD Board of Education meeting, renovations to 31 classrooms at Lenape have now been completed. “They (the classrooms) look extremely impressive and those teachers are going to be thrilled to come back to those new spaces,” the superintendent declared. “They are long overdue.”Birnbohm noted that she was “going on a district tour” to “check out the sounds and sights” of other ongoing renovation projects within the next couple of days, and that locals, as well as the school community, can follow updates on the construction’s progress by visiting the “Shaping Success” tab on the district’s website. A “before and after look” is provided on that webpage of “just one of the many classrooms” renovated at Lenape. Joseph Porretta Builders was awarded an $805,000 contract by the school board, back in March, to renovate the Lenape classrooms. VMC Company, meanwhile, received a $127,400 contract for the required floor covering removal at Lenape. The webpage also provides several photographs of the ongoing synthetic turf field installations at both Lenape and Seneca high schools (a project that will ensure that all district schools will be on an equal footing with Cherokee and Shawnee already having such fields).
As of this newspaper’s deadline time, the synthetic turf field installation at Lenape has been“Goalcompleted.postfootings have been poured and the high jump pad is complete at the north end of the field,” it was noted on the webpage of the Lenape synthetic turf field project just before it had been completed. “At the south end, block will be added to surround and preserve the ‘LENAPE’ (lettering-shaped) shrubbery. Crews are now laying fabric and 81 truckloads of stone – the last step before turfAppliedarrives.”Landscape Technologies was recently awarded by the school board a $522,252 contract to conduct Phase 1 of the synthetic turf field installation at Lenape, and another $412,540 contract for Phase 1 of the synthetic turf field installation project at AsSeneca.forthe Seneca turf field installation project, “the surface has been graded and crews are beginning concrete and drainage work,” according to the district. “Lenape and Seneca turf fields are on schedule,” said Allyson Roberts, a spokeswoman for LRHSD. “Lenape’s turf was completed yesterday, and Seneca’s turf will be completed by Sept. 12th. After turf
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Also, during the Aug. 18 Pemberton school board meeting, Board Member Terry Maldonado revealed that the “purchases of a couple of school buses” were removed from last year’s school budget in asking Smith, “Do we plan on replacing any this year?”
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When Maldonado asked Smith exactly just how many school buses “did we not purchase last year that we should have,” the outgoing business administrator replied, “Looking at the replacement schedule, it is shaping up that 10 school buses are coming due at the same time.”
“So, we are trying to break that number up this year and next year,” Smith added. Hertell, in speaking out again during the Pemberton school board’s subsequent Aug. 25 meeting, chastised officials for the “statement made last week about not buying buses“Youagain.”usually buy two buses a year, so we don’t get hit with (them in) the budget,” she maintained. “By 2025, you are going to have to replace 18 buses at $100,000 each – that is $1.8 million that you are going to have to find in the budget, and you are already in a budget crunch. Frankly, I don’t see that coming.”Hertell expressed concern of what possibly “being shy 18 buses in the fleet” would look like for the district. “So, is it better to put out $200,000 a year to buy two buses, rather than replace them all at once?” the bus driver association president asked the Pemberton school board and district administration. “Some $1.8 million will hurt our budget really bad.”
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Pemberton Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Havers “deferred” to Smith, who contended that both he and Edmund Treadaway, Pemberton supervisor of Reported with Schools’ This Time Over Possible Cuts to Out-of-District Runs, Courtesy Busing Budget Cycles Without Any Funding to 10 Buses President, Queries; for Under
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PEMBERTON—As the 2022-23 school year is set to commence in the Pemberton Township School District on Sept. 7, troubles and strife are reportedly continuing in the Pemberton Township Schools Transportation Department. Sue Hertell, president of the Pemberton Schools’ Bus Driver Association, during an Aug. 18 Pemberton Board of Education meeting, took both the public body, and in particular the district administration, to task for “taking away,” she alleged, out-ofdistrict extra runs from district bus drivers, including a 5:45 p.m. “late run” provided to students from Pemberton who attend Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT) over Pemberton Schools. “It is all because our kids ‘choose’ to go there,” Hertell contended. “It is Pemberton Township that chose not to have woodshop, electronics, automotive and welding shop, and our kids have but no choice to go to thatThisschool.”newspaper previously reported that veteran Pemberton Township High School (PTHS) Principal Joseph Eder is resigning from the district effective in September to accept an assistant superintendent position at TheBCIT.news tipster who first tipped this newspaper off to Eder’s resignation had described in detail how Pemberton Schools are losing students to BCIT because of the local district’s decision to discontinue various shop courses amid state aid cuts and staffingHertellshortages.pointedout that one of Pemberton Board Member Carmen Bivins’ own daughters was recently transported to and from BCIT via the late bus run and maintained the situation is causing her to “think of if Ms. Bivens had to drive her child home, every night, at 5:45 p.m.” “Now, if she has another kid go to school there, she will have to pick her kid up,” Hertell asserted. But Business Administrator Dan Smith, who recently accepted a position with the Egg Harbor Township School District and will also be leaving Pemberton Schools also in September, contended in response that the reason for the possible elimination of the BCIT “late load” is because the technology institute provides such service “for all other districts that go there, which we are asking that they do for Pemberton.” “They may come back and say, ‘We can’t do it. We don’t have a bus. We can’t get you on a bus.’” Smith acknowledged. “So, we would have to do that service, but we are trying to do that through BCIT so that (particular) driver can be reassigned to something different.” Hertell questioned the logic behind such decision making, pointing out that the Pemberton district also recently agreed to pick up children for Evesham Township Schools, despite claims that the Pemberton district needs as many drivers as possible in order to be able to carry out in-district bus“Weruns.can’t handle the contracts that were given away, but now we are taking in new contracts and have a new school – Evesham and Marlton,” Hertell said. “But yet, we gave runs away we can’t handle?!” Hertell, in pointing out that the district had already “given away” out-of-district school bus runs to Garfield Academy and is planning to “give away runs” for both BCIT and Archway Schools, also maintained that doing so is now illegal under legislation enacted by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy.“Thegovernor signed a law that says once you contract with a bargaining unit, you cannot privatize anything,” Hertell asserted. “You can’t take anything away from us!” Smith, in response, referencing Garfield, acknowledged the Pemberton district was “exploring options to contract that run out.” Hertell made a plea to the board: “Please keep our runs.” She again reiterated that taking such runs away “from a bargaining unit” is disallowed under the law, at least without “discussing it with us first.” The school board and district administration did not say whether it had reached any deal with BCIT during a subsequent Aug. 25 school board meeting, and also did not say whether the district would reverse course with the elimination of some of the extra runs.
As for the BCIT late run, Hertell, during the preceding meeting, said of the situation, “You are now going to take away a $5,000 contract from a driver who has three children to take care of.” “Do you think she is staying here?” she asked the board and district administration of the situation if that driver should lose the additional income. “No, she will be leaving. You are going to be losing another driver over $5,000! So, do not let them (the administration) give this contract away!”
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“Currently, we don’t have any budgeted in the budget, but we are working on additional state aid, such as stabilization aid or something else,” Smith responded. “The application process opens in September, and as part of that process, we are asking for funding, for buses.”
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Two Previously Retired, Veteran Administrators in Education Chosen to Replace Outgoing Business Administrator, Principal in Pemberton New Health and Physical Education Standards Will Not Be Taught in Pemberton Township Classrooms, But Will Be a Home ‘Option’ Superintendent Makes Announcement in Recognizing There Are About a ‘Dozen or So Real Controversial Standards,’ While Also Noting District is Required by NJDOE, State School Board to Include Them in Curriculum
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PEMBERTON—Two individuals who bring a wealth of experience as previously retired veteran administrators in education have been chosen as interim replacements for Pemberton Township School District Business Administrator Daniel Smith and Pemberton Township High School (PTHS) Principal Eder Joseph, respectively. Smith, as previously reported by this newspaper, has accepted the position of school business administrator in the Egg Harbor Township School District, while Joseph is departing for an assistant superintendent post at Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT). Both men are scheduled to leave Pemberton Schools by the end of September.
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Marie Goodwin, who recently retired from the Medford Township School District as its business administrator, was selected by the Pemberton Board of Education on Aug. 25 to fill the vacancy being left behind by Smith, the latter who has served as business administrator of Pemberton Schools for the past four years. “I retired from Medford on May 1, and I am already back to work,” said Goodwin on Aug. 25 in introducing herself to the board and public. “It has been a little crazy the last couple of years with COVID and everything. I didn’t think I’d come back this quickly, but I definitely love what I do. I am going to try to do my best in filling Dan’s position.” Goodwin brings to Pemberton Schools over 20 years’ experience as a school business administrator. And prior to being in a school setting, she was the executive county business administrator in both Burlington and Mercer counties, a position of the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE). Prior to serving as executive county business administrator, Goodwin worked in the finance division of NJDOE’s central office.Goodwin pointed out that the Medford Township School District, where she last held work, is also an “S-2 district,” or one that has lost and is continuing to lose state aid due to the revised school funding formula enacted through Senate Bill 2 (S-2), though she recognized her previous district has not “lost as much as you are here” in funding.Aresident of nearby Springfield Township, Goodwin said she has also previously served on that municipality’s Board of Education, causing her to be “very familiar with federal impact aid,” which is something
By douGlAs d. MeleGAri Staff Writer PEMBERTON—The Pemberton Township School District, after various meetings amongst its top officials, has decided to bring state-revised Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards into its curriculum to meet a state mandate, but “they are not going to be taught in the classroom,” according to Superintendent Jeffrey Havers, but rather parents and guardians will be given the “option” to teach them to their children at Thehome.new standards, adopted by the New Jersey State Board of Education back in 2020, were delayed in being implemented until the 2022-23 school year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, according to the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA). However, the state school board, according to statewide media outlet reports, declined in May to further delay their implementation, despite loud calls from various legislators and school boards, in addition to protest from manyTheparents.standards, as more and more parents and guardians become aware of them, have generated controversy throughout the state, with some board of education meetings featuring very heated exchanges with demands from some that such curriculum not be adopted, or at the very least not taught in the classroom.InPemberton, only a couple of individuals from the pubic have given their opinion on the topic, to date, at school board meetings and have done so thus far cordially, as a local school board member would later recognize. Those who have spoken out locally have expressed their opposition to several of the newAmongstandards.them is that by the “end of second grade,” students are to be taught that “all living things may have the capacity to reproduce,” and that by the “end of the fifth grade,” pupils are to learn “pregnancy can be achieved through a variety of methods” and “puberty is a time of physical, social and emotional changes.” That last standard, according to a 66-page handout from the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) entails a fifth grader being taught both about how the body changes during puberty and how these changes influence personal self-care, as well as about the physical, social and emotional changes that occur during puberty. Additionally, by the end of the fifth grade, through that particular, controversial standard, a student is to be provided with an explanation of the “common human sexual development” and “the role of hormones (e.g., romantic and sexual feelings, masturbation, mood swings, timing of pubertal onset).” Meanwhile, the state suggests that in order to teach a fifth grader that “pregnancy can be achieved through a variety of methods,” it is expected that a lesson “explain the relationship between sexual intercourse and human reproduction,” including that IVF (vitro fertilization) and surrogacy are among
MEDFORD—Ken Roberts, 81, a retired newspaper editor and publisher residing in Medford Township, began writing a young adult novel about Little Leaguers in the 1970s, then put it aside and forgot about it. But years later, after a draft was discovered, he was able, with the help of family and friends (including two daughters who are both professional editors themselves) to finish writing and publish the book, “Spittin’ Image: A Youth Baseball Novel,” the story of how a Little Leaguer named Matt Holloway comes to emulate the father he lost during his childhood.Robertstold the Pine Barrens Tribune that he became involved in other things while writing this story initially when he lived in Westmont and put it away, forgetting about it. That was until he and his wife were in the process of moving from Medford Lakes to their current residence in Medford.
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One of many raised sidewalk slabs on Hanover Street as of Aug. 30, this one close to the Hearthstone retirement community.
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Roberts noted that he previously graduated from Rutgers University with a journalism degree and worked as a sports and news editor for a daily newspaper, before going on to work at two newspapers in Cherry Hill as well as editor and publisher of a newspaper in Collingswood. He also worked at the Ocean County Vocational School as a public relations director.“Iplayed Little League in the distant past and I managed a team in the 1970s when I was writing this story,” he told this newspaper. “Then we moved, and I coached my son, and served as a softball commissioner for the girls’ league that my daughters played in.” He explained that some of the plays described in the book, he witnessed in real time as a coach and player. However, the characters in the story are strictly fictitious, he said.
Medford Resident’s Experience as Little League Team Manager Comes Full Circle with ‘Spittin’ Image: A Youth Baseball Novel’ Raised Sidewalks, Sinkholes, Road Cracks, Rentals and No Email Addresses for Council Members Lead to Very Tense Meeting in Pemberton Borough
“When we were moving recently, my wife found the draft and I read it over,” he said. From there, Roberts explained that he drew inspiration from all the members of his family, including his wife, son, daughters and grandchildren, to publish the novel.
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By douGlAs d. MeleGAri Staff Writer PEMBERTON BOROUGH—Raised sidewalks, three “sinkholes,” cracks in a road, delayed and limited funding for paving, the inability for the public to email concerns to individual council members and confirmation that more than half of the town comprises rentals led to a very tense Pemberton Borough Council meeting on Aug. 15. As one resident attested during the council meeting, “the Hanover (Street) sidewalks are horrendous.”“Don’tyou have things in the code that they have to be repaired, and the landowners have to have them fixed?” the woman asked. Borough Administrator and Clerk Donna Mull, who will be retiring relatively soon from borough government, replied “no.” “We do not have a budget where we can make repairs to every single sidewalk,” she added.But the woman persisted, maintaining the situation was both “dangerous” and “horrendous,” and if that is the position of the municipality, it can be “sued.” “You could also be sued because you didn’t follow up and were negligent,” she emphasized. However, in a reply that appeared to surprise those in attendance, many whom identified themselves as being from the Hearthstone retirement community, which is off Hanover Street, Mull asserted, “Believe it or not, with JIF (Joint Insurance Fund) insurance, we have a sidewalk inventory, and if someone tries to sue us, we cannot be sued.” That response led to the woman to ask the council, “Do we just let this happen?” and “Are you fully staffed?” “Until you come in the office, and see everything that is taken care of and done by the three of us in the office …!” quipped Mull in response, causing the woman to declare, “Listen, I do not question somebody is not doing their job,” before making the point that she is simply raising a public safety issue.
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Photo Provided Ken Roberts published “Spittin’ Image: A Youth Baseball Novel” that he initially began writing as the manager of a Little League team in the 1970s.
Borough Solicitor David Serlin ultimately jumped in, adverting a full-blown quarrel, maintaining “sidewalk law is confusing as hell.”“To impose responsibility on the homeowner, that is logical, but the state is not going to let us do that,” Serlin said. “The town could repair and assess everybody for theButimprovement.”todoso,according to the borough solicitor, it would “require bonding” and therefore result in “a lot of people getting
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The community’s pride in its team’s accomplishment was reflected in the afternoon tribute parade, in which coaches drove their players in decorated Jeep Wranglers down Main Street, escorted by the Evesham Township Police Department, Fire Department and Fire-Rescue Squad, to the baseball field at Arrowhead Park, where a crowd had gathered with placards of support and team colors.
That’s because these particular “Boys of Summer,” unlike most of the players recruited by the so-called big leagues, are their very own — brought up and educated here, and trained on the turf of local parks, athletic fields and even back yards. Those literal hometown roots are what made the parade and ceremony held in their honor on Aug. 28 such an especially meaningful event, well beyond the symbolic tributes to teams whose players most often hail from places all over the map.
Coach Appalucci, following an introduction by Evesham Police Chief Walt Miller, then proceeded to detail the team’s transportation, “looked at the replacement schedule” while “working on the budget.”
“Every one of our players contributed something to allow us to win, and that’s what holding the rope means,” Coach Appalucci said. “All 12 did something, held the rope for each other and flat-out refused to lose.” He also pointed out that he is one of six coaches who helped make this victory possible, as well as thanked the community for its support this season.
“We are looking at different options versus just purchasing them outright,” Smith said. “In addition, we are looking at lease purchase options as well that can help us spread the cost out over 10 years (rather) than impacting (the budget) over one budget cycle.” During both the Aug. 18 and Aug. 25 Pemberton school board sessions, parents raised concern about an apparent plan that was reportedly in the works for the new academic year that would have ended transportation to district schools for at least some Pemberton students who are initially dropped off around daybreak at Little Lambs Preschool for a before-care program.
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acknowledgment of this impressive new feather in the community’s cap came in the form of a proclamation drafted by the Burlington County Board of Commissioners, which declared Aug. 28, 2022, “Marlton Chiefs Day” and was read at the ceremony by Evesham Mayor Jaclyn “Jackie” Veasy. “This team showed tremendous character and determination during the championship season,” noted the proclamation, “and their success generated community pride in Evesham and across Burlington County,” as well as adding to the county’s rich athletic history.Themayor added that the team’s triumph had made the entire community proud. In a press release that accompanied the proclamation, County Commissioner Daniel J. O’Connell emphasized it was intended to honor both the Chiefs’ players and coaches “for the character and determination they demonstrated during their championship run, as well as the community pride they helped generate within Evesham and across Burlington County.” This Chiefs emerged undefeated from this year’s tournament, which was held in Vincennes, Indiana, and included 20 of the country’s best 10U teams, after winning a 4-3 game against a team from Julington, Florida with a walk-off hit in the final inning. A certificate of achievement and special medals were also given out to players and coaches by the mayor and other members of Evesham Township Council.
The Marlton Chiefs, led by Head Coach Mike Appalucci and assistant coaches Jason Siitonen, Brian Gable, Scott Graham, Chris West and Dan Incollingo, and whose membership consists of Aiden Siitonen, Michael Appalucci, Jr., Drew Gable, Nicholas Hopp, Kellan Graham, Danny Incollingo, Christopher Cameron, Clayton Westerside, Kyle Burgess, Brayden Ziegler, Jacob McGonigle and Cole West, then gathered at the field for a series of congratulatory comments by various officials.Calling the township “blessed” to have coaches like Appalucci and his staff,” Marlton Recreation Council Sports Commissioner Steve Stil contended that the victory “wouldn’t have happened” without the team’s trust in and respect for what the head coach has striven to do for the last few years, crediting the parents of the team members for their part in bringing it about as Anotherwell.
However, after being unable to do so due to a loss to Upper Allen Township, the Chiefs were given a pep talk by their coaches prior to competing against other single-loss teams in what’s known as the losers’ bracket. “This is when our team learned about ‘Marlton Tough’ and what it means to be a Marlton baseball player,” asserted the head coach, who recounted playing for a youth team years ago that went to the World Series twice.Appalucci recalled how one of the highschool teams he coached had played against Marlton, and how “when you play against them, you know you’re in for a game, no matter what… it’s going to be a battle.” He then gave several examples of how, when the current team was down during games, it had come back to win. “We always pull together because we are ‘Marlton tough’ and these guys have no panic in them,” he declared. Prior to competing in the latest series, the coach said he gave each player a symbolic piece of orange rope, a concept developed by Skip Bertman, legendary coach of the Louisiana State University baseball team, which signifies that each player must do his part in holding the rope to keep his teammates from falling over the edge. The older Appalucci said he told the team members that “‘it doesn’t matter who is at the end of the rope, as long as it’s one of your teammates – it’s going to take all 12 of us.’”
“Wherever we go, we have the loudest and best traveled fan base,” he maintained.
State law only currently requires that school districts provide round-trip transportation to elementary school students who live more than two miles from their school, and to secondary school students who live more than two-and-a-half miles away, as well as students with special needs.
As became evident during the meetings, “courtesy busing” was initially eliminated for some students who are dropped off at Little Lambs, but live within what is considered “walking distance” of their respective regular day school.
The father declared that he “can’t afford” to take two to three hours off from work everyday to transport his daughter both in the morning and afternoon. Other members of the Pemberton school board noted that several other parents had reached out to them as well with concerns about the situation. “As for busing for alternate stops, it has been our policy that if a student is in the ‘walk zone,’ not to provide alternate-stop transportation,” contended Smith in reply. “We are having some issues with that this year. We want to try to meet as many needs as we can, but we are trying to figure out how we can get the kids from Little Lambs to Denbo-Crichton School. So, we have a handful of students there, and at another center, that we have to get those kids back to ButDenbo-Crichton.”whenBoard Member Lionel Lee further pressed the business administrator if this is a “policy,” Smith acknowledged “it has been our practice to try to accommodate as many requests as we can.”
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“No buses are budgeted in the current budget, but we are looking at possibly utilizing additional funding that might be out there to purchase buses,” Smith maintained.Henoted, that as of right now, the Pemberton district’s tentative 2023-24 school year budget has an “allocation” for school busHowever,purchases.the Pemberton district, Smith revealed, is “looking at some grants from the state” to “possibly obtain electric vehicles,” or possibly “turning in diesel powered vehicles for electric ones.”
journey that ultimately led to its world-class victory, starting with having won the state championship last year. “This year we really wanted to defend that – it was the goal we set during winter workouts,” he said.
“School starts at 9 a.m. for my child and most people work 9 to 5,” said one father in pleading with the Pemberton school board and district administration to reverse course. “I don’t think it is fair for us. If I, or my wife, has to drop my daughter off at school and (take) time off to do that, that means my wife and I are losing money, which means I can’t pay my taxes.”
“You could feel the support 800 miles away.” Also remarking on that level of support was Assistant Coach Jason Siitonen, who is also a captain in the Evesham Police Department.“Ithasbeen a great summer, seeing this community come together… you cannot put a price tag on this,” he contended. “It is amazing what this team did.” Siitonen made a point of crediting the efforts of the players as well, telling them, “You guys are here because you worked harder than everyone in the country.” “And get ready to do it again,” he added. Miller emphasized that what he likes most about sports is how they teach one life skills, and how taking part in competition enables one to ascertain “who has things figured out better when it comes to things like leadership, motivation and what it takes to “Thiswin.” team is a demonstration of that,” Miller maintained. The ceremony concluded with ice cream and Italian ice being provided to kids in the crowd, and the flying of a white and orange banner located along the fence in centerfield that solidified the team’s legacy as 2022 Cal Ripken World Series champions.
Having been to the regional tournament the year before with 11 returning players and one new face, Appalucci’s team knew how important it was for them to secure the one seed (first place in a tournament), he noted.
Lee, a former corrections officer in listening to the exchange, declared afterwards, “Hopefully, we can get either one of the two things worked out: Champions to make the changes it needs, or get the bus situation to satisfy (those expressing concern).” “I will wait for that outcome,” he added.
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“I can’t guarantee seats for someone out of the area,” said Havers, recommending that Champions is probably the best solution in the long-term, but if the parent is still not comfortable with sending her child there, she can email him.
“HVAC projects will start in the fall of 2022 and could extend to the 2024-25 school year,” it is noted on the webpage. “All of the HVAC, plumbing and electrical project scopes are connected to each other and would be done together, with start-ups happening throughout the project term.” CM3 Building Solutions Inc. received another contract of $670,937, through a cooperative purchasing agreement, for the second phase of lighting improvements at Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and Shawnee, as well as another one for $536,878 to conduct the third phase of such work there.
“Right now, we have an influx of students at the two centers and we are trying to figure out how to get them to their respective schools,” Smith added. But several school board members appeared to indicate they wanted a fix to the situation that was fair to the working parents. Board Member Sheri Lowery, for instance, said she “knows you will jump on it” to both Smith and Havers, while Maldonado asserted, “Hopefully, with Little Lambs you can resolve that issue as they are not the only parents – I did hear from a couple of other people, also – Mr. Havers, I will share with you later.” “I certainly hope there is some way to make accommodations for parents with childcare issues,” Board Member Sherry Scull declared. “I know at one point we were told, ‘There is absolutely no way that we can make accommodations,’ and I just feel they are taxpayers who have to work and we should do everything we can possibly do.” While during the subsequent, Aug. 25 Pemberton school board meeting Havers maintained, “We called up all the people we were aware of for Little Lambs and did get them on a bus,” another parent came forward to report that she was “told a couple weeks ago her child would not be afforded busing from Little Lambs” because “we live inside the walking boundaries.” She maintained that the preschool offers a “secure, loving place” for before-school care versus her child’s past experiences with the district’s before-care program, “Champions.” Additionally, she noted, Little Lambs installation, testing is performed over a few days to ensure proper impact and drainage. Each school’s home opener for football will be on the new turf!” Also, at Seneca, “wall paint is complete, HVAC duct work has been hung and painted, and new motorized garage doors have been installed” for the “future home” of the district’s “Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Automotive Career PathwayAccordingProgram.”toadistrict description of the program, it is “designed to give students the opportunity to blend work experience with a robust curriculum that will lead to an entrylevel ASE certification” and give students a “streamlined path to a professional certification following high school.” During an enrollee’s junior and senior years, their schedule will be set up in such a way in which they will attend class during the “a.m. wheel” and accumulate work experience at local automotive businesses during the “p.m. wheel,” or what allows them to enjoy “half-day internships.” Tuition-based enrollment into the program, for those living outside of the district, is also being “piloted” at Seneca, at a cost of $8,000 per student. Tuitionbased students who enroll in the program must provide their own transportation. Acceptance into the program is determined on a case-by-case basis, according to the district, and while there is rolling admission, there is limited space in the program.
The superintendent asserted that he “can’t guarantee” a bus for the mother’s child and that the “reality is” that there is a “whole list of parents who would like to get on the bus for Little Lambs” and the “challenge becomes if there is an increase in need.” Any additional special education students, he noted, would take priority, and in the event there are any additional special education enrollees, “we will need to take seats back.”
stages to avoid an impact on the educational process.” The same has been said of “other interior renovations, electrical and plumbing upgrades” that have yet to commence.
happeningBasinawardedrehabilitation$299,521.53boardforbuildinglotStaffKiki“district-level”renovationsconstructionprogram.”Thebond-referendum-fundedalsoincludessometowhatareconsideredbuildings,includingtheK.KonstantinosAdministrationandDevelopmentCenter,with“parkingrestoration”attheadministrationcontractedtoAmericanAsphalt$18,876.25.Theasphaltfirm,inaseparateschoolmove,willreceiveanadditionalfora“ChurchRoadaccessroadproject”atLenape.Gower’sInc.,meanwhile,wasrecentlya$36,000contractforthe“ShawneeRehabilitationproject.”“Wearereallyexcitedabouttheprogressthissummer,”declaredBirnbohm
on Aug. 24. A sign of overall progress on both the general schooling and Coronavirus pandemic front is that the LRHSD school board voted to delete “Board of Education Policy 1648.13: School Employee Vaccination Requirements,” with that policy having implemented Executive Order No. 253 signed by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy on Aug. 23, 2021, requiring all school district workers to either provide adequate proof that they have been fully vaccinated against the Coronavirus or to submit to COVID-19 testing at a minimum of one to two times eachFollowingweek. recent updates to COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in advance of the upcoming school year, Murphy on Aug. 15 had signed an executive order lifting the requirement that school districts, child care settings, and state contractors maintain a policy requiring their unvaccinated workers undergo routine testing.Thechange applied to school districts and childcare settings immediately, and to state contractors as of Sept. 1, enabling the local school board to make such a decision. Board Member Marc R. Jones, representing Mount Laurel, cast the lone vote opposing the deletion of the LRHSD policy, though he offered no explanation for his “Thedecision.district does not have anything to add about why the board member voted a specific way,” this newspaper was later told byAsRoberts.veteran Cherokee Assistant Principal Jo Ann Jankowski, the high school’s supervisor of Special Education, plans to the leave the district in December, the school board decided on Aug. 24 to promote Lenape Special Education Department Coordinator Anthony Guerrera in her place, effective Dec. 12.
Joseph Poretta Builders also received yet another contract of $2,088,378 to conduct renovations to a welding shop at Lenape. Those renovations, according to the webpage, include “expansion” of the shop and “when completed, this reimagined space will be home to the district’s welding/ metalwork fabrication career pathway
Mohawk Lifts/Hunter Engineering Company was recently awarded by the school board $123,184.15 to install auto shop lifts and other equipment for the pathway program, while Joseph Porretta Builders received another $744,000 contract for the “auto shop renovation/conversion project.” Whitemarsh Corporation, through a state contract, was given $149,145 for work benches and work carts for the Seneca auto shopMeanwhile,project. the media centers at both Cherokee and Shawnee are being “updated with new flooring and ceilings on both the upper and lower levels, as well as with a fresh coat of paint.” Levy Construction Company was recently awarded a $286,600 contract by the school board for the Shawnee “library media center ceiling renovation project,” while J.H. Williams Enterprises received a $249,000 contract for the “library media center ceiling project” at Cherokee. This newspaper has learned that the Shawnee media center renovations required “asbestos abatement,” with Teal Management Corporation receiving a $129,800 contract from the school board to do the work, with a change order approved in August for an unspecified amount. CM3 Building Solutions Inc., through a cooperative purchasing agreement, was provided $1,197,342 for the “first phase” of various lighting work at Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and Shawnee, while Kaser Mechanical received $175,000 for the water heater replacement part of the bond project at TheSeneca.school board also contracted with Laurant Construction Company, Inc. for roof replacement at Seneca, at a cost of $323,000. The United States Roofing Corporation and Jottan, Inc. were both awarded contracts to perform roofing restoration work at the district’s other three highAsschools.forthe much-anticipated HVAC work, including adding air conditioning to the district’s four high schools, the district has announced it will “will take place in opens at 6:30 a.m., while Champions only opens at 7 a.m. “It puts us in a bad position,” the parent maintained. “I am asking if you can help the parents. Anything you can do for us is appreciated. Our hands are tied.” Havers recommended that the mother first speak to the district’s liaison to Champions “to help address any concerns,” and revealed for this school year the district before-care program will also start at 6:30 a.m. “If you don’t find that to be able to address your needs, we can work on busing,” he added. “We have been adding busing to Emmons. The challenge is we only have so many seats on a bus.” (It should be noted that just a few months ago, several Pemberton district parents gave Champions high praise.)
The fiery meeting began with a resident “who grew up in town” declaring that she was “mortified” when it was “announced” at the July borough council session that “52 percent of the houses in town are rentals.”
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“So, I started coming here in 1978, and it looks a lot better today than back then, particularly the bypass,” Serlin said. “When I started coming here, the complaint was, ‘There are too many rentals.’ It is an issue we have always had.” The borough solicitor explained that
“For the time being, we can look at putting in hot patch,” Mull said. This newspaper observed on Aug. 30 that the sinkhole on Simpkins Lane had been temporarily filled with hot patch. A total of three drainage basins in the development, including one where another “sinkhole” is located, were marked with dotted, white lines, indicating further repairs are required. Mull pointed out that the borough is a “very small town with a very small budget” and that it “puts in” grant applications to the NJDOT “every year, for two streets,” and that “usually we get (funding for) one.” She reiterated council has again put in for streets in Hearthstone, including the main drag of Hearthstone Boulevard, and is awaiting the results. “Other than maintenance, that is how we re-do the streets,” Mull declared.
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“That is just unacceptable for a beautiful town to become ‘four units, two units,’ and I want to know when it is going to stop?” she asked. “Is there a quota? I want to know how this happened! More than 50 percent of the town is rentals! Will houses continue to be cut in half, or quartered?” She also asked who is responsible for maintaining such properties, pointing out one in town is sitting abandoned with “open windows,” calling it a “disgrace” that one sees when coming over the Hanover Street Bridge, or what locals consider the main gateway into theMullborough.replied that “you cannot stop a house from becoming a rental” under the law. Haines noted that it is a “Planning Board issue” as far as limiting the number of units in a rental, but added she did not understand why rentals were an issue.
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The mayor contended since that time “they are not going to take them down,” but that after the rights over the landscape was recently contested by the county, “I am not sure the sidewalks on Hanover or Elizabeth are the responsibility of the borough.” Another resident questioned why the landowner or landlord of the adjoining properties “should not be responsible” for fixing the sidewalks, declaring, “If my curb was broken, you’d tell me I am responsible.” Yet another resident, one who lives outside Hearthstone, on Jarvis Street, pointed out that the borough already has a law in place that the adjoining homeowner is responsible for shoveling the sidewalk following snow. “I think you’d tell me I have to fix it,” she contended. “Why aren’t they being told that?” Griffin replied that “when we pave Jarvis” Street, the sidewalks there will be fixed. “That is not what I want,” the Jarvis street resident quipped in reply. “I want the homeowner (to be responsible). My concern is the tighter budget.” She added that the “maintenance of the streets and sidewalks is a big deal” and called the circumstances at hand “very shocking.” As for Mull’s remark suggesting that borough officials were doing all that it can do with limited staffing to stay on top of such issues, one person said she would be “glad to volunteer office help.” Meanwhile, as Council President Bonnie Haines pointed out, “Why has it taken three years to put Jane and Egbert streets out to bid to get Mullpaved?”explained that initially the two streets were going to be put out to bid “separately,” but that once the borough got funding to do both streets, it was decided to combine the projects into one bid, which meant the engineer had to “redo the specs.” “It doesn’t fly with me,” Haines declared. “It is somewhat unacceptable that they have waited this long.” While the borough engineer was absent from this latest session, during a preceding meeting in July, someone filling in for him said the project was on target for “probably September or October” and answered an emphatic “Oh, yeah!” when asked if the paving would be done prior to Thanksgiving. But other streets in the borough are in need of repair, numerous residents contended at both the latest meeting and at one the previous month.Onewoman, in response to hearing there are limited resources, asked if the borough could “borrow from another affluent town” the equipment that is needed, including from neighboring Pemberton Township, which maintains an in-house paving crew. “It doesn’t hurt to ask,” she said. Cracks, as well as three sinkholes in Hearthstone, were of primary concern to many of the residents remarking about the need for paving back on July 18. In responding to those concerns during the latest borough council meeting on Aug. 15, Mull reported that she had since “had a contractor go out and check three sinkholes in “WeHearthstone.”gotaprice and will be able to do it before the end of the year,” she said, pointing out the estimate for the repair work was near $22,000.Andbecause of the cost, “we are not doing cracks, just sinkholes,” Mull added. But one man who lives in the retirement community ultimately shot back, “you’re a little bit too late, because your inaction cost meThe$500.”Hearthstone Boulevard resident explained that as a result of the impact from purportedly hitting one of the sinkholes on Simpkins Lane, it “completely broke the sway bar on my car.” “And I work five days a week,” he said. “If my wheel lets loose, it is going to kill somebody. So, please, address it ASAP. In the colder weather, it is going to be harder to repair the Anotherroad.”resident, who maintained he was the “one who called” the borough to report the sinkhole, took the local officials to task for simply “putting a cone in it” since he filed a complaint.“Weneed it to be fixed,” he declared. “Something has to be done. There is going to be an accident. We have an adult community. Some of us adults drive a little bit better than others. Some of us adults have problems. It is a hazard! Do you hear me? ‘By the end of the year’ is not enough! You need to do some remediation. Get some blacktop and level it off! Putting a cone in it is just causing problems, though it is certainly not as bad as if the cone is not there. What do you think? Is there no Boroughanswer?”Councilman Terry Jerome replied that he “didn’t know how deep it is,” but asked if there was a “possibility that it could be filled with some stone temporarily.” Mull replied “yes,” and the resident said he “appreciated” that officials would at least do that, but pointed out that once cars drive over the “loose stone,” especially with it being a “sinkhole,” the stone is just going to come out.
The location of a sinkhole on Simpkins Lane in Hearthstone that has since been temporarily filled with hot patch.
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that Pemberton Schools has come to rely on in its budgets. “I am excited to get back to work,” said the mother of three boys, all college graduates. Taking over for Joseph on an interim basis will be Dennis Lepold, who retired as the principal of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in September 2021.
One is also expected to demonstrate to a student by the end of fifth grade the “ways to promote dignity and respect for all people (e.g., sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, differing ability, immigration status, familyMeanwhile,configuration).”bytheend
of second grade, a student is to be taught “personal hygiene and self-help skills promote healthy habits,” and while that might seem innocuous, generating controversy as part of that concept, is a requirement that one “list medically accurate names for body parts, including the genitals.” Also generating contention statewide is a “Social and Sexual Health” standard to be taught to a student “by the end of eighth grade” that “there are factors that contribute to making healthy decisions about sex,” with an expectation through it that a student be able to define “vaginal, oral, and anal sex.”
And by the end of high school, another controversial standard calls for students to learn how “individuals feel about themselves, their identity, and sexual orientation,” with the expectation that they can “analyze the influences of peers, family, media, social norms and culture on the expression of gender, sexual orientation, and identity,” while also learning to “advocate for school and community policies and programs that promote dignity and respect for people of all genders, gender expressions, gender identities, and sexual orientations.” That standard also expects a 12th grader to be able to “analyze current social issues affecting perceptions of sexuality, culture, ethnicity, (and) disability status,” in addition urging one to “make recommendations to address those issues.”
“He’s a good bunter, his father taught him to bunt,” Roberts said. “He bats left-handed so he can be two steps closer to first base.” Roberts told this newspaper that the novel is a book for preteens ranging in age from about 9 to 12 years old. Participating in Little League, the author maintained, can teach kids a lot of valuable life lessons.
Under that same standard, educators are to “develop a plan for the school to promote dignity and respect for people of all genders, gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations in the school community.”
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PRINCIPAL the options for one to become pregnant. The new standards also dictate that by the end of fifth grade, students should “feel welcomed and included, regardless of their gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation,” and that to meet that “expectation,” they should be provided with descriptions of things such as “gender-role stereotypes,” with the curriculum they are being taught “differentiating between sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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Lepold was principal of West WindsorPlainsboro High School South for nine years, and also previously served as a principal of West Windsor-Plainsboro School District’s middle school, a post he held for five years. Lepold explained that he had somewhat of a unique rise up the ladder, with his first job being a school bus driver, before becoming a language arts teacher, with his career including teaching stints at Nottingham and South Hunterdon high schools, before he landed at West Windsor-Plainsboro. “For the last year, I had a couple of opportunities offered to me, but I turned them down,” said Lepold during his introduction to the Pemberton school board and public. “In July, I decided I missed the kids, and want to get back in a building.” Lepold noted that he will be commuting from Lawrence Township, Mercer County to PTHS every day. Joseph, who has given 11 years of service to the Pemberton district, will be departing Sept. 30, while Smith’s resignation takes effect Sept. 24. Also turning in his resignation is Helen Fort Middle School Principal Drew Besler. “With the nature of the education business –and I have been doing this since 1974, people in positions are sometimes approached by other school districts, or friends, and move on to more income, a better title or some goal that they have,” said Pemberton Board of Education President Tom Bauer. “That is really the case for the three individuals leaving us. We are all very sad that they are leaving us, and I know I speak for the whole board when I say we certainly enjoyed working with them. They gave over 110 percent every day. Life moves on. We may not find people as great as they are, but we will find great people. I will assure you of that.” Smith, during his Pemberton tenure, has presided over a significant loss in state funding, and has implemented numerous staffing and programming cuts in response, as well as recently made some additional cost cutting recommendations that have generated some controversy, including pushback from some Pemberton school board members in recent months. Still, resident Diane Fanucci, also now a Republican candidate for Pemberton Borough Council, maintained during the Aug. 25 Pemberton school board session that she was “very sad” that Smith was leaving the Pemberton district, declaring, “I think you have done a fabulous job under very adverse conditions, considering we are losing $27 million.” Havers in also noting that Pemberton Schools is facing a total of $27 million in cuts through S-2, by the end of the 2025-26 school year, describing that figure “weighs heavily on us,” pointed out that Smith is going from a district “getting hit really hard” by S-2 to one that its school board meetings seem like “a disco ball” because they are “actually gaining money” from the same school funding formula. “It feels like he is going to a different side,” declared Havers, noting he watched the Egg Harbor Township Board of Education meeting in which Smith was appointed and gained “insight,” taking note that they “haven’t raised taxes” and “get raises,” and essentially, it’s “like a celebration.”
While “all the standards are in our curriculum” because they are “required to be in our curriculum,” Havers maintained, “they are not going to be taught in the classroom, but rather are going to be optional to be taught at “Then,home.”as with any other standards – maybe somebody doesn’t feel comfortable with one,
The novel begins with 11-year-old Matt Holloway, losing his father, who was considered a great baseball player in high school back in the day. Although his father was one of the best players in the history of that high school, he was undersized for the major leagues and was never offered a contract. “Right before the boy is trying out for Little League, his father dies in an accident, in a plant where he worked,” Roberts explained.
A main aspect of the story is the grief experienced by the Holloway family after the loss of the patriarch, and how Matt, the oldest child, uses the game of baseball to strengthen his family’s bond after this tragedy. Initially apprehensive about trying out for Little League, he is encouraged by his family to give it a shot in honor of his late father. At first, his lack of experience is evident, yet as the season goes on, he is able to harness the lessons his father taught him before his death and lead his team to a come-from-behind win in the championship series. While attempting to measure up to his father, Halloway also has to contend with a classic bully, Frankie Kester, another Little Leaguer who towers over him. The climax occurs as Matt Holloway’s team faces off against Kester’s team in a championship series, with Holloway’s team using tactics that favor smaller and faster players, such as bunting and stealing bases.
Havers, in announcing the decision for the Pemberton district, which serves students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, recognized that “health standards have been a hot topic across the country, but especially in the State of New Jersey, because the standards have“Therechanged.”areprobably about a dozen or so real controversial standards I would say,” added Havers during an Aug. 18 Pemberton Board of Education meeting.
“The story is about how the boy comes through that trauma and brings in the inside part of the game that his father taught him.”
Roberts described his own Little League experience as having given him both firsthand insight into the game and allowed him to make lifelong friendships with his teammates. He was involved in the game for many years and believes the spirit of the game was best demonstrated after his son’s team, which he managed, lost a championship game, at which point he and the opposing team’s coaches went out to dinner together. “I think that says a little bit about the caliber of people who are involved with the game,” he Theadded.book is available to read digitally on Kindle, and paperbacks are available to purchase on Amazon.com.
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“Every ordinance adopted by the borough council shall, within five days after its passage, Sundays excepted, be presented to the mayor by the borough clerk,” the proposed code reads in part. “The mayor shall, within ten days after receiving the ordinance, Sundays excepted, either approve the ordinance by affixing his signature thereto or return it to the borough council by delivering it to the borough clerk together with a statement setting forth his/her objections thereto or any item or part thereof.
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Jerome said that for himself, he would be concerned emails addressed to him would “get lost” because with his business, “he gets thousands of emails a day” alone. But that with emails going to the borough administrator, that person could bring “notice” to an issue that requires his attention.
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Fanucci said she would look into whether the governing body members for other area towns have individual email addresses, noting the local school board members do. (Pemberton Borough is one of a handful of towns in this newspaper’s coverage area in which the individual elected officials don’t have direct email address for them posted online.)During the course of the meeting, Councilwoman Andrea Martin sought and received approval from Griffin to create a “committee” to” look into bringing public recreational events to town,” such as food truck nights. That committee, she said, would also like to take a look at bringing back the town’s fall festival, formerly known as the Hanover Street Fair. Upon return from an executive session, based on the exchange about emails, Martin asked if she was allowed to communicate with the committee and others via email and the best way to do that. Serlin recommended she create an email account separate from her private email, using a service such as Gmail. A long-awaited “administrative code” was introduced at the Aug. 15 borough council meeting that formally defines the powers of the mayor, council, councilmembers and borough officials and departments. It is scheduled for second reading in September.
“The reality is, when (these) new standards come out, in my experience – in my 26 years of education, I have yet to find a set of standards where I have said, ‘I can teach all of that in one year,’” added Havers, maintaining there are often times where his colleagues in education arrive at the conclusion that they are “not going to have time to teach” all of them.
“The whole inside is going to be finished, and the entire property redeveloped inside,” she said. “They’ve started on the outside. It is 100 percent better inside. They have six months to move on the project.” The meeting ended with Diane Fanucci, a Republican candidate for borough council who is known to sound off on a variety of topics during public comment, in part, calling on the council members to have a “dedicated email account” so that residents can email each councilmember directly with their questions and concerns.
“No ordinance or any item or part thereof shall take effect without the mayor’s approval, unless the mayor fails to return the ordinance to the borough council, as prescribed above, or unless the borough council, upon consideration of the ordinance following its return, shall, by a vote of no less than four members, resolve to override the veto.”
While Haines said she would have Mull “look into it further,” Jerome asserted he felt any emails are “truly best handled going through the office.” “Some on council may get the message, some may not,” Jerome added. “At least this way there is one central clearing house, and when we need to be notified about something, we are. It is a logistics kind of thing.”
“The end result may not make everyone happy,” said Havers at the time.
“That is a public record,” quipped Serlin in response, causing Fanucci to ask, “Is there something wrong with a ‘public record?’” The borough solicitor explained that he believed having such accounts would pose “privacy” issues, while Mull asked, “What is the“Thatpurpose?”iswhatthe administrator gets paid to do (field questions and emails),” Haines said. “What’s the purpose? I am not saying we have a problem with it. But this (public comment) is the open forum to ask those questions.”
parents will have an option to opt out of a classroom lesson,” Havers declared.
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The superintendent noted that allowing parents to opt out of a classroom lesson is “not a different format” for the Pemberton district and emphasized it is the “same type of option as they have had in the past.”
Havers, when Republican candidate for Pemberton Borough Council, Diane Fanucci, expressed back in June that she felt some of the standards had “really inappropriate parts,” responded, in part, that “I share some of your concerns” and that he “thinks some are very controversial and for good reason.” At the time, he further maintained that there are “some standards we won’t put in the curriculum because we don’t think they are appropriate,” while others he maintained would possibly be “modified.”
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