Monday, March 18, 2013
School board meetings, home elevation seminar and the Easter Bunny
MONDAY - LEGO Club, 4 p.m., Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville. The library supplies the LEGOS, you supply the creativity. Ages 6-12. Please register online at www.theoceancountylibrary.org or call 732-269-2144. MONDAY - All month - Famous Women's Scavenger Hunt, anytime, all month, Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville. Find the pictures of famous women, match their names with their accomplishments and win a small prize. Open to all ages. TUESDAY - Geese egg addling seminar, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Jakes Branch County Park Nature Center, 1100 Double Trouble Road, Beachwood. Volunteers can learn how to addle geese eggs - a more humane way of controlling the Canada geese …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Meetings, bingo and more
MONDAY - Berkeley Adult Writers Group, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville. Novice and experienced writers welcome. MONDAY - Ocean County College Board of Trustees, 12:30 p.m., Administration Building, Ocean County College, College Drive, Toms River. MONDAY - Berkeley Township Council, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 627 Pinewald-Keswick Road, Bayville. The caucus starts at 7, followed immediately by the regular meeting. Hint: most of the discussion takes place at the caucus meeting. TUESDAY - Peanuts and Soybeans and Sweet Potatoes, 6:30 p.m., Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville. Learn about the contributions of food scientist George Washington Carver and …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Plan would save money and enhance education, Fulcomer says
Township Councilwoman Fran Siddons sat through a barrage of criticism at the Jan. 28 council meeting from those who disagreed with her views on shared services between the two school districts in town. Speaker after speaker - mostly Berkeley Township Board of Education bus drivers who were afraid they would lose their jobs - hammered Siddons for her comments at a recent board meeting when she suggested combining administrative services for the Central Regional and Berkeley districts and merging the two bus fleets. Siddons later described the meeting as a "lynch mob." Tuesday night's council meeting was markedly different. Several speakers - including Berkeley Board of Education President James Fulcomer - defended her right to speak at the …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Jan. 28 Township Council meeting at times seemed like a Berkeley Board of Education meeting
Township Councilwoman Fran Siddons had no idea of the backlash she would face when she suggested at a recent Berkeley Board of Education meeting that the district share more services with Central Regional. That is, until she walked into the Township Council meeting room on Monday night and saw the left side filled with Berkeley bus drivers who were apparently afraid they would lose their jobs. That is, until she saw several Berkeley Board of Education members - including board Vice-President Sophia Gingrich and board member Steven Pellecchia - sitting in the audience. "I walked into a lynch mob," Siddons said Tuesday. "They took everything out of context. There was an agenda there last night and people in the audience knew it." Siddons …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Sophia Gingrich Tapped As Board Vice-President
Berkeley Board of Education members in a split vote selected South Seaside Park resident James Fulcomer to serve as board president in 2013. Fulcomer - who was elected to his first term in 2011 - thanked board members for their support at a brief board reorganization meeting tonight. He announced earlier Thursday that he had stepped down as two-term chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjustment and president of the Regular Republican Organization of Berkeley Township. The vote to appoint him school board president was 5 to 4. Board members Salvatore Ferlise, Sophia Gingrich, Fulcomer and new board members Patrick Mooney and Keith Fisher voted yes. Former board president Steven Pellecchia, board member Louis J. Tuminaro, new board member …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Berkeley Board of Education Vice-President wants to concentrate on school board issues
Berkeley Board of Education Vice-President James Fulcomer has resigned as chairman of the Board of Adjustment and will step down as president of the Regular Republican Organization Club of Berkeley Township in February. Fulcomer served two full terms and chaired the Board of Adjustment through a number of controversial applications, including the redevelopment of the Santo Marina site last summer. He cast the lone no vote on the application. He has served as president of the Republican Club for four years. Fulcomer said he wants to devote all of his free time to the school board. "The two positions together took up so much time that I was not able to spend as much time on Board of Education matters as I wanted to spend," he said. "Of the …
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Time to organize for the New Year
Wednesday - Ocean County Board of Freeholders organization meeting, 3:30 p.m., Ocean County Administration Building, Room 119, 101 Hooper Avenue, Toms River. Wednesday - Berkeley Township, Central Regional schools re-open. Thursday - Berkeley Township Board of Education reorganization meeting, 6:30 p.m., Berkeley Township Elementary School, 10 Emory Avenue, Bayville. Thursday - Central Regional Board of Education reorganization meeting, 7 p.m., board offices, Central Regional High School, Forest Hills Parkway, Bayville. Thursday - Winter Scavenger Hunt, Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 10 Emory Avenue, Bayville. Drop in anytime, find some "wintry' items, win a small prize. For ages 3 to 12. Friday - Berkeley Township Council, …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Competing slates of candidates each took two seats
Voters here ousted three of the four current appointed members members in the race for the four seats on the Berkeley Township Board of Education.board. John MacMoyle, David M. Ytreboe and Gerard C. Reuter - all appointed to seats earlier this year - lost bids for their first terms. Louis J. Tuminaro was the top vote-getter, with 6,485 votes, or 22.34 percent, according to figures provided by the Ocean County Clerk's Office last night. Tuminaro was the only member of his slate to win a seat on the board. Newcomers Patrick Mooney and Keith Fisher won their first full terms on the board. Mooney received 6,314 votes, or 21.75 percent; Fisher received 5,517 votes, or 19.01 percent. Lauren Ciccone-Zawada ousted Gerard C. Reuter in the race for …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Test results should be available on Thursday, superintendent says
The staff of the Berkeley Township Elementary School was summoned to a special meeting yesterday over a possible environmental problem in the building. Schools Superintendent James D. Roselli confirmed that a company is doing testing at the school on Emory Avenue in Bayville. But he declined to discuss the nature of the problem with Berkeley Patch until test results are back on Thursday. "We are in the process of identifying exactly what is going on in the building," said Roselli, who was appointed superintendent in late June. "We don't have any answers." Board Vice-President James Fulcomer said he had "heard a rumor" the school was closed to staff members and contacted Roselli's secretary. He was told there was a meeting about the …
Monday, August 20, 2012
Berkeley Board of Ed members approve the minutes as is, no tape recording of meeting available
Berkeley Board of Education Vice-President James Fulcomer recently refused to approve the minutes of the May 24 meeting because he said they don't accurately reflect what occurred. "I don't believe the minutes should be false," he said during the Aug. 16 board meeting. "I think they should be true." Fulcomer said back in May the board had not actually voted to hire the district's transportation coordinator, but only to close the debate on the matter. He asked for a correction to the minutes at the Aug. 16 meeting, but did not get it. "Why are your words the truth and the minutes not the truth?" Board President Steven Pellecchia said. Fulcomer asked that the word "considered" be substituted for "voted on" the hiring. He said board member …
Bill Suskevich
1:58 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
No governing body should support any jobs , not needed with tax dollars. We elect people to represent us and govern with common sense. If all members of a town council have the same ideas and support the same program, we do not need a council. One person with one idea will do the same thing. Bill Suskevich more ›