Friday, January 4, 2013
Joseph Tonzola will continue in Veep spot
The Wall Township Board of Education on Thursday voted in a longtime member to the panel’s top spot. Eva Applegate at the board’s organization meeting was tapped by the 9-member panel to become this year’s president. Former board President John Tavis nominated Applegate for the presidency. There were no other nominations. The vote to install Applegate was 8-1. Board member Donald Herbert cast the lone vote against. Joseph Tonzola, in his second year on the board, will continue on as the board’s vice president. Tonzola’s nomination -- made by board member Robin Cervantes -- also was unchallenged. The vote was 8-0, with Tonzola abstaining. New board members Robin Zawodniak and Kenneth J. Dioguardi and Mary Catherine McCarthy, as well as …
Monday, November 19, 2012
Board of Education and Township Committee set to meet on the same day
Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Township Committee this week has moved its regular business meeting to Tuesday. The committee normally meets on Wednesday, but the shortened week prompted the governing body to bump up their regular session by one day. The committee’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at town hall, 2700 Allaire Rd. Also that night, the Board of Education is set to meet for its regular public session. The board is set to meet at 8 p.m. at the Intermediate School, 2801 Allaire Rd. The board’s meeting was postponed from last week, when the schools administration held a forum to collect community input on how the remainder of the school calendar would look following the two-week storm-forced closure of the …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Board of Education votes unanimously to replace Laurie Cannon
The Board of Education on Tuesday voted to appoint first-year member Joe Tonzola as the panel's vice president. The vote to appoint Tonzola to the position was 5-0. Board President John Tavis and member Deidre Kukucka were absent. Tonzola abstained from the vote. Board member Robin Cervantes nominated Tonzola. It was seconded by board member Anne Moonan. There were no other nominations. Tonzola takes over for the panel's former vice president, Laurie Cannon, who unexpectedly quit last week. Cannon has a year left on her term. Her seat has not yet been filled for the remainder of the calendar year. But by Friday's deadline, seven people filed to run for the remainder of Cannon's year on the board. Tonzola thanked Cannon, who was not in the …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Meetings, surveys and discussion have abounded but no word on what it all will mean
Three public meetings and a pair of possibly flawed parent surveys but no word yet from the Wall Township School District administration on exactly what the next school year might look like at the Intermediate School. The recent accidental discovery by a parent of a then-unannounced plan to shuffle the Intermediate School schedule and oust some music instruction from the regular school day, touched off a firestorm among parents of music students which quickly spread among the Intermediate School community. The district held two informational sessions to pitch their case for the need for the change, which officials have said is an effort to bolster math and language instruction and remove the school from a state watch list of schools …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Those most affected by proposed changes take their turn to be heard
The administration has spoken. The district parents have had their turn. But tonight at the Board of Education's regular meeting, students who would be affected by proposed changes to the Intermediate School schedule are taking their turn. Reports are coming in that at least 15 Intermediate School students who would be most affected by proposed changes that would bump at least one music instructional period from the regular school day are lined up to speak at the school board meeting, being held right now at the Intermediate School. A full story will be posted as details become available. Please check back. The school, along with Wall High School, has been designated a “School In Need Of Improvement,’’ by the state Department of Education…
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Board of Education sets special meeting on Friday
Following a 30-minute closed session that was called around 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Board of Education announced it would hold a special meeting on Friday where it could name an interim Superintendent of Schools. The board called for the closed session following a two-hour regular meeting, saying it needed the time to discuss personnel matters. When the panel came back into open session about a half-hour later, board attorney Michael Gross told the few remaining audience members that the board decided to hold the special meeting at 4 p.m. in the Intermediate School library to possibly name the interim schools superintendent. Gross said the contract for an interim schools chief had to be approved by the county Superintendent’s Office and may…
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Board of Education scheduled to meet as polls close statewide
Immediately following the close of voting on this election day, the Wall Township Board of Education is scheduled to have its own polling at its regular meeting. The board -- scheduled to meet tonight at 8 p.m. at the Intermediate School -- will attempt to stem the tumult of past months when it votes in the third board president since the April school elections. Polls for the statewide elections also close at 8 p.m. Also scheduled, according to the board’s agenda, is a recommendation by Superintendent James Habel to eliminate the position of assistant superintendent, the post held by Sandra Brower, who is leaving the district to take the helm of the Lacey School District. The board in April elected longtime board member Eva Applegate to …
Marybeth Stoddart
1:33 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
We are so happy for you Mrs. Applegate! Thank you for servicing the families in Wall and we know we are in good hands with you at the helm of our ship!! God Bless you!! more ›