The HOWELL Times
Vol. 23 - No. 20
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Image courtesy Library of Congress This illustration shows Joshua Huddy being taken from prison. By Andrew Rice HOWELL - Rick Geff ken, an author from Mon mout h C ou nt y who has written several books about the region’s local history, has released another book, “New Jersey’s Revolutionary Rivalry: The Untold Story Of Colonel Tye And Captain Huddy,” that goes into detail about a pivotal event in
local history. Geffken’s book, follows the Revolutionary War rivalry between patriot Captain Joshua Huddy and Loyalist Colonel Titus Cornelius, better known as Colonel Tye. Titus was the biracial son of a British loyalist and one of his enslaved women. He would escape this house and
Photos courtesy Rick Geffken (Above) Rick Geffken writes and gives talks on local history. (Middle) Geffken’s new book explores the lives and confrontation between two historic figures. go on to fight for the Br it i s h , w h o we r e promising freedom for all escaped slaves who fought for them at the time. It was Titus who would lead a loyalist
raid on Huddy’s house, leading to his temporary capture. Huddy would eventually escape from his British captors because of a (Book - See Page 2)
Ciattarelli, Sherrill Share School Funding Plans
By Chris Lundy JERSEY SHORE – Many local school districts were hit hard by cuts in school funding, causing them to lose programs, eliminate positions, and one district even had to sell schools. The law that cut state aid, S-2, has reached the end of its seven-year span, but the damage is done because state aid is set, more or less, at this new lower amount. This is an issue that affects local schools more than others, so our reporter reached out to gubernatorial candidates - Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie
Sherrill - in separate phone interviews to discuss their plans for school funding. This is the first of three articles. The next article will be about both candidates’ plans for how to rein in energy costs. The final article will be an open forum for the candidates to discuss what’s important to them.
Jack Ciattarelli Ciattarelli called S-2 “nefarious and arbitrary.” “I’ll look to put a new plan in place on Day One,” he said. Students with more challenges need
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more resources. So, districts would get a certain amount of money for each regular education student, and more money for each English language learner. These changes will be incorporated into his first state budget. “The state would take over the cost of special education,” he said. “We’ll almost certainly be sued,” he said. However, on Day One he wants to go before the Supreme Court to show why the current funding system is unconstitutional and his proposal is “more than fair.” (Funding - See Page 3)
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Officials Address Students’ Antisemitism By Andrew Rice FREEHOLD – At a recent Freehold Regional High School Board of Education meeting, large numbers of parents and students filled the seats, most of them waiting to hear how the board was going to address the developing situation regarding antisemitic comments made by a few students at Manalapan High School. The incidents revolve around a Snapchat conversation among four students, who are believed to be freshman, at Manalapan High School. The conversation got screenshotted and posted to both Snapchat and Instagram. The students talked about dressing up as Hitler and kids from the Holocaust on Halloween while spewing more hateful rhetoric throughout the messages. “i da just realized the only people we actually don’t lol is jews,” one message read. “kill every last one,” said a message in response. One of the other messages said that they fill their vapes with the gas from the Holocaust. When the conversations were posted by the students, they were captioned with “the conversations we have bro” and other ways to laugh about it. “We are aware of antisemitic posts that were made outside of school by some of our students in our school district. We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness and taking immediate, comprehensive, and decisive action. Antisemitism and hate of any kind have no place in our schools,” said Freehold Regional High School District’s Superintendent Dr. Nicole Hazel. Hazel reiterated her position on the situation at the Board of Education meeting. “I want to be clear. Antisemitism, and hate, have no place in the Freehold Regional High School District. We have taken action in accordance with our board policies and regulations, the New Jersey anti-bullying bill of rights act, the New Jersey law against discrimination, and we have worked in accordance with law enforcement pursuant to our memorandum of agreement. While student confidentiality laws prevent us from sharing specific disciplinary details, we (Officials - See Page 3)
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