Tag: Education

NEPTUNE – More than 300 people attended the 2026 All Shore Band Directors Concert at Neptune High School March 21, where student musicians from across Monmouth and Ocean counties came together for a regional performance shaped by auditions, rehearsals and the work of directors from many schools.

MIDDLETOWN – The district’s board of education voted 5-4 last week to close three schools under mounting financial pressures.

TRENTON – A few days before his term ended, former Gov. Phil Murphy signed bipartisan legislation establishing a “bell-to-bell” ban on cellphones in kindergarten through 12th-grade schools that takes effect for the 2026-27 school year.

FARMINGDALE – The YMCA of the Jersey Shore honored the lasting impact of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during its 37th annual breakfast commemorating the civil rights activist’s life. 

MIDDLETOWN – Applause and excited cheers echoed down the hallway at Harmony Elementary School Friday, Oct. 24, as students and staff gathered to open the school’s new band room. The long-anticipated space, carved out of the former library, marks a fresh start for the fourth- and fifth-graders who will learn and rehearse there this year.

TINTON FALLS – Last Saturday and Sunday, the Two River area experienced another nearly perfect “local summer” weekend. And if you spent either of those days on a Long Branch beach, you might have Mia Grossman and a cohort of high school students to thank for its pristine condition.

LINCROFT – Stockton University and Brookdale Community College have renewed a partnership that has helped students make a smooth transition from the two-year college to Stockton’s four-year bachelor’s degree program since 2018.

By the time the first downbeat drops on a crisp Friday night, the work has been going on for months – metronomes clicking in a band room, drill sets scribbled in pencil, and teenagers in the Two River area learning to move (and think) as one.

SHREWSBURY – Students at Shrewsbury Borough School will return to a larger building next week. The school will open the doors to a new pre-K wing, marking the latest chapter in the century-long evolution of the borough’s only elementary school from a three-story school- house to a modern educational facility.

MIDDLETOWN – In a split vote, the Middletown Township Board of Education last week approved a 10.1% tax increase to cover the 2025-26 school district budget.