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PAGE B4 TOE HOME FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1996 LOCAL REPORT County official gets chance to attend Harvard Board to finance capital improvements Superintendent nominee lookingforward to new post By SANDRA KOEHLER STAFF WRITER Dr. Marylu Simon, Highland Park's prospective superintendent, is looking forward to working HIGHLAND in the borough. PARK 'Tm real'y ex" hh cited to come to Highland Park," said Simon yesterday, who has been assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in the Mount Olive School district for three years. "I like the idea of being in an actual town and a smaller district where you get a chance to get to know the staff, the students and the community." This week, Simon was offered the job to replace Peter J. Bastardo, who will head his hometown district, Freehold Township, starting Monday.

Simon has accepted the job, but approval is still needed by the borough's Board of Education, which is expected to vote on Monday. Simon added that some contractual details still must be worked out. One benefit Simon cited is a shorter commute from her home in Princeton. Simon said she feels she has a lot to offer the borough, particularly in the Another hour off limits Assistant Superintendent for Business R. Gregory Quirk responded that the state administrative code allows school boards to enter into lease-purchase arrangements, whether by themselves or through the municipality.

"It is an approved financing method," he said. The board will likely put other major projects not included in the lease-purchase up for a public referendum. Tuesday night, parents of Schirra School, which has been hit hardest by overcrowding, urged the board to make additions onto elementary schools part of that referendum. "We have a problem with (increasing) enrollment and a lack of money in the budget to do expansion," said parent G. Kevin Cal-ogera.

"We have to discuss a referendum. If we don't do it until September 1997 it won't be until about the year 2000 before we're ready to deal with the increased enrollment." He said a referendum in Old Bridge would likely fail the first time, and then construction would take two years after the referendum finally passed. Board member Susan Kaplan, who chairs the buildings and grounds committee, said any discussions about building additions are premature until the board receives the final report from a consulting firm hired to make recommendations on space problems in the district. The report is due next month. By ERIK SWAIN STAFF WRITER The Board of Education will finance $1.8 million of long-delayed capital projects under a five-year lease-purchase arrangement approved Tuesday night.

The township will arrange the financing, which will also require the approval of the Township Council. The items will be considered leased until they are paid off after five years. The inter- OLD cst 's expected to BRIDGE be around MMMH $350,000. The board's willingness to arrange a lease-purchase was a key component of its compromise with the council in agreeing to a $1.7 million cut from the defeated 1996-97 school budget. Included in the lease-purchase will be roofs for six buildings, underground tank removal, funds to reopen Miller School, and various building and site improvements cut from the 1996-97 spending plan.

The board approved the plan 8-1. The lone dissenter was Ellen McPermott, who said after the meeting that she wanted the projects done but had a "philosophical objection" to cutting $1.7 million and then spending $1.8 million. Resident Mitch Geier, president of watchdog group Citizens for Better Education, told the board he strongly disapproved of the arrangement. "The public has defeated the budget for years, and you're trying to get arpund them," he said. "We have consulted legal counsel.

We are prepared to take action." Three police to STAFF REPORT Three East Brunswick veteran police officers will be promoted today to the EAST'' ran's caPta'n- BRUNSWICK lieutenant and mmmmmmam Sergeant. Lieutenant Thomas W. Finn, a 16-year-veteran of the force and a lieutenant since 1990, will become a captain. He will By ELIZABETH BASSLER STAFF WRITER Franklin minors must be off the streets before the stroke of midnight or face up to $1,000 in fines. The Township Council passed an ordinance Tuesday FRANKLIN to chane the cur" mmmmmmmm few's start from 1 a.m.

to midnight. Anyone under 18 must be off the streets until 6 a.m. Police Chief Daniel J. Livak said the earlier curfew will only improve and enhance the quality of life for township residents. "Most of the kids in the area are aware of the curfew, and generally at the 1 o'clock hour, you'll see most juveniles move out of the streets and into their homes," Livak said.

"(The Highland Park H.S. Class of '96 makes exit By MICHAEL SYMONS STAFF WRITER An Ivy League education is becoming routine for Somerset County managers, courtesy of a fellowship program operated by -Johnson Johnson. Angela M. Dubivsky, administrator of direct services for the county's Office on Aging, will be attending three-week course at the Harvard JFK School of Government. She is the fifth fellowship grant winner in somerset as many COUNTY whose tuition mmmmmm will be covered by Somerset County companies.

A ceremony was held Tuesday morning at the Somerset County-Administration Building to an- nounce Dubivsky as this year's re--cipient. Ethicon Inc. executives Frank Torpey and Donald Bowers were joined by Freeholder Denise M. Coyle at the event. "Government faces many of same challenges that business industry see," Coyle said.

"Our managers need to be able to update their skills so they can find creative solutions to these chal-. lenges." Dubivsky, of Hillsborough, di- rects the county's eight senior citi-. zen centers, its home-delivered meal program, and its outreach program for the elderly. The registered dietitian is also an assistant clinical professor of nutrition at UMDNJ's School of Health Related Professions, and she previously had been a UMDNJ nutritionist in Newark. Highland Park seniors Javier Serrano and Leah Staffers share a kiss before graduation ceremonies yesterday.

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She served South Brunswick's school districts as a science and computer coordinator and in 1988 as director of science and technology. She said she also will bring to the borough her "deep commitment to students." Simon, who has worked in Middlesex County for about 12 years, said she is no stranger to Highland Park. "It's always been a community supportive of schools," she said. "And I value the diversity in Highland Park." If she takes the job, Simon said she hopes to start by mid-August. for minors council to put off its vote until it could be decided if a youth hanging out after the curfew may be exercising his or her First Amendment rights and to determine if the police are qualified to make such constitutional judgments.

In a hand-delivered letter to the township police and council, party Vice Chairman John T. Paff stated, "The ordinance clearly requires a police officer to make a determination whether kids are just 'hanging out' or engaged in legitimate First Amendment activity." The council refused to debate the point on Tuesday because the curfew is already in place, effectively settling the dispute, said Township Manager John Lovell. "We have only ratcheted down the hour of the curfew," said Lovell. OF 1996 Brian Christopher Lam, John Daryle Laszlo, Edan Lichtenstein, Hai-long Liu, Bryan Timothy Lord, Justin E. Louis, William Kenneth Lowe, Alexis Brooke Lukas.

Dolly Malave, Nicole Marie Mantarro, Sean Michael McCarthy, Shalonda Ronnett McNair. Matthew Harel Oshinsky. Monica Palao, Constantine Papasawas, Eric Parra, Constantine Papasawas, Eric Parra, Katrina Eileen Payton, Damian Alexander Puniello. Maya Ravee, Tania J. Redman, Dana Roit-berg, Eduardo Rojas, Christopher Randolph Rosario, Daniel Joseph Ross, Dorell Bianca If you have high cholesterol, curfew) has been extremely successful in enhancing and maintaining the quality of life in the township, and the hour earlier can only help." The curfew change was proposed when Janet Walton, president of the Edgemere Tenants Association, approached the council two months ago complaining about children milling around the apartment complex late at night.

She had asked for a 11 p.m. curfew but said she doesn't mind the compromise. The midnight curfew expires Jan. 1, 1998, at which time the council will review it and perhaps change it again. Livak said police will warn violators before issuing summonses, which carry a fine of up to $1,000.

The Libertarian Party of Somerset and Middlesex Counties asked the CLASS Diane Janelle Harper, Jason Rashaun Hawkins, Ryan Michael Henry, Amy Herzog, Allison Marie Higgins. Jorge Joseph Robert Kapinos, Nicole Klau, Penelope Koufis, Robert Matthew Krieger, Mich-ele Liu Kung. Independence STAFF REPORT Highland Park High School said farewell to its Class of 1996 last night during commencement in the Maude R. Stockman Gymnasium. The valedictorian, Amy Herzog, will attend Yale University.

The salu-tatorian, Stefanie Abe, will attend Northwestern University. Principal Robert Terrano and assistant principals Elaine McGrath and Joan B. Gray also participated. Stefanie Elise Abe, Nikolay Aksenov, Christina Louisa Anderson, Elizabeth Andrc-juk, Jed Matthew Aronson, Muna Attiyah. Kulwmder Bangar, January Marie Bernard, Wildora Francess Bob-Grey, Amanda Cavelle Bobcombe, Steven Ray Boikess, Michael E.

Bynes. Anthony Caponegro, Bronwyn Jane Cera-soli, Donghce Andrew Cho, Kushanava Choudhury, Elena Chzhen, Jose William Cor-tez. Tara Jessica Dafter, Christian Richard Du-Four. Rui Fan, Tiguist Fisseha, Melanie Beth Fol-lette, Shirley Forer. Nilo Marcus Garvin, Felicia Graham, Brian Daniel Grandison, Lawrence Elias Greenfield, Jeremy Eastburn Greenwald.

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