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Local Connection -/ A December 11, 2003 North Brunswick ° South Brunswick get a face BY CHARLES W. KIM SUH Wi iter outh Brunswick voters supported the school district's $46 million building plan on Tuesday. "I want to thank everyone who voted for this," Board of Education member Barry Nathanson said Tuesday night. Voters approved the plan by a vote of 1,488 to 809, including absentee ballots. Pools were open in the township from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with about 11 percent of the township's reg- istered voters casting ballots. "I think wo did a good job of getting the word out and getting 11 percent," said Nathanson, who is also on the board's facilities committee. According to the -township clerk, 2,270 voters out of a registered 19,625 voted Tuesday. The plan will upgrade the district's older ele- mentary schools and renovate the two middle schools to keep up with spiraling enrollment, according to officials. According to the district's most recent projec- tions, there will be 257 more students than seats next year, and that figure will rise to a deficit of 581 seats by the 2007-08 school year. As a short-term solution, the district is using portable classroom trailers to house the overflow. Holiday gift ideas Currently, the trailers house about 150 students, for everyone on your list according to the district. Officials said that the plan should eliminate the Page 29 trailers from the district. The building plan will also provide parity with JEFF GRAN IT staff the newer schools by guaranteeing an average class A pedestrian braves the weather to walk down Hermann Street during the snow- size of 23 students, provide separate cafeterias and storm in North Brunswick on Friday. gymnasiums, provide separate art and music rooms, and make sure that "open space" classrooms now have walls from floor to ceiling. The plan will add 34 new classrooms to the dis- "Not all futures are the same, trict and maintain a class size of 23 students, and if we ail don't work togeth- according to district officials. er, we will get one of the less desirable futures.' Brunswick Acres Elementary School will pick up eight new classrooms and provide alterations to 13 — US, Rep Holt Rush others. (D-12th District) Cambridge will gain six new classrooms and two Page 6 new kindergarten classes. clear away the almost 15 inches of Constable will get six new classrooms and alter- Residents reminded to snow for the Monday morning com- ations to six others, according to the plan, and keep walkways clear mute, Dick Fowler, the DPW director, Greenbrook will get eight new classrooms and al- said. terations to three others. Index BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP "On Friday night alone, we had 30 In addition, Monmouth Junction will see alter- Business ,. ,39 Staff Wntci pieces of equipment out with our ations to five regular classrooms and two kinder- Classified ... .......44 employees working straight through garten rooms. r fter a late autumn snowstorm until 4 a.m.," Fowler said. "Our resi- The district will use a state grant of $13 million Milestones ,...,..., .23 buried North Brunswick last dents should be proud of the personal to help with the financing for the plan, bringing the Obituaries ......... .37 .week, township officials are performance given by all of our town- tax impact down to about $33 million. asking residents to prepare now for a ship employees." According to the board's finance committee, the Opinion 12 wicked winter. Poiloe Beat ........ ,28 Although he said the township did money will be bonded at a rate of about 4 percent The township's Department of interest during 25 years. Sports .,.....,.., .38 not experience any extraordinary diffi- Public Works and Department of Parks culties as a result of the snow and that The committee estimates that the tax bill will and Eecreation employees and other the cleanup went well, Fowler said res- increase by about $90 for the owner of a $200,000 contracted snow removers worked www.gmnews.com overtime throughout the weekend to (Continued on page 15) (Continued on page 3) SENTINEL, December 11, 2003 NS I/;MI I'M TO CHOOSE FROM '/ 4" Pot $14l 9 O POt 5-7 flowers 8 POt 12-15 flowers ^ 8" Hanging $ Baskets 2 for Large Terra Cotta * 99* Colored Pots 25-30Blooms.. 19 Magnificent * 10 POt over 20 flowers *Tax not included Alberta Spruce 99 3 Gal. Pot 12 ea. J From Englishtown From Sumtnerhill Rd., From Rt. 520 Rt. 522 to right on Main Street Take Rt. 33 West (Freehold East Brunswick to Rt. 9 south to Gordons Corner (Englishtown). Left on Water Raceway Mall) go approx. 5 miles Summerhill to end, make right on Main St. Rd. into Englishtown, make left on Street, stay left on Lasatta to right on Perrineville Rd.,make (Spotswood) to 1st light make left on Main Street & right on Water Street, Ave. which turns into Federal right on Federal Rd. Gaskos is DeVoe Ave. Follow about 7 miles (cross stay left on Lasatta Ave., which turns Gaskos is up on the right approx. 3 miles on left. over Rt. 522) to stop make right on Federal into Fedei.il Rd Gaskos is (approx (approx. 3 miles) G.iikos is up on right 3 miles on right) * f ) \\ NS ,'iiiNTJNEL, December 11, 2003 3 in wake of tragedy SOUTH BRUNSWICK - A 17- > < -S r year-oid high school senior jumped to V 1 f his death in a Times Square hotel early Sunday, according to police. New York City Police Department spokeswoman Sgl.. Mary Christine Doherty said Monday that. Kendall Park resident Vincent Deperalta i u plunged 23 floors to his death at 12:35 a.m. Sunday at the Marriott Hotel, .. V 1535 Broadway. vt' According to Doherty, Deperaltu . jumped from tho 31st-floor atrium inside the hotel, landing on the I „ 1 eighth-floor lounge. Deperalta was i , transported to St. Vincent's Hospital i where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. i., ".• Doherty said that police continue to investigate Deperalta's death, but officials believe that it may have been STEVEN M. BARON suicide. Police found two notes from Spectators gather at the Lock-Tenders House at D&R Canal State Park in Kingston, South Brunswick, for the historical society Depei'alta, one on his body, and the and garden club's annual tree lighting. other on a ledge near where he jumped, Doherly said. Doherty could not reveal, however, what those notes said. Students at South Brunswick High School were notified of Deperalta's More soil testing on tap near NBTHS death Monday and counseling was offered, according to district officials. Lombard said. seven properties on Plains "We are confident with the "To respond to the untimely death Township seeking Earlier this year, soil test- Gap Road for testing after the information given to us by of a high school student this past information on ing in the park and around Powell-Harpstead confirmed Our consultants and the DEP weekend, the administration and the school revealed levels of the line of soil contamination that there is no cause for con- guidance personnel have coordinated original owners arsenic, lead, copper and zinc in the area extended from cern," Lombard said. "The a response for students and adults in excess of those permitted Roosevelt Avenue through material is inert and does not BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP by the DEP. Veterans Park to the high move around, limiting any that may be affected," a Monday pi-ess Staff Writer release from the district said. More recent tests revealed school parking lot and toward possible contact." In response to the tragedy, high NORTH BRUNSWICK - the presence of trilchloroeth- the residential development Lombard said once school Principal Frank Ingargiola met There will be more testing for ylene, TCE, which is an following the power line right Powell-Harpstead completes with key personnel Monday morning contaminated soil in the industrial solvent used as a of way. all of the testing, the DEP to address student needs. Ingargiola township. cleaning or degreasing agent. "Powell-Harpstead's must approve a remediation met with guidance counselors, school- The township has The federal recent tests suggest the con- action for both the high school based youth counselors, administra- approached homeowners Environmental Protection tamination may exist in a and the park. tors, the school resource officer, police, near the North Brunswick Agency has linked cancer and 360-degree circle,"- Lombard "We hope to have a reme- and central office personnel before Township High School on developmental, reproductive said. diation project under way in telling the faculty about, the event. Raider Road, seeking permis- and neurological health prob- Officials did not have the the first quarter of next year," George Scott, director of student sion to conduct precautionary lems to prolonged exposure to opportunity to meet with all Lombard said. services and chair of the Community soil testing on their proper- TCE. the residents from the seven After finding the presence households that could be af- The township is still seek- Response Team, will meet with other ties last week. ing information regarding the team members to provide resources to Township officials and of TCE, the environmental fected, but did receive engineering firm of Powell- approval from some of those history of ownership of the the community, according to the dis- representatives from the land. trict. state Department of En- Harpstead began groundwa- in attendance to access their Board of Education President Bob vironmental Protection met ter testing that should con- properties. "Although we have had Long extended sympathy on the with Plains Gap Road resi- clude this week, Lombard "Even if we gain all of the some indications as to who board's behalf to the family during dents in a special meeting said.

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