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Author Visit Encourages Creativity
By Andrew Rice HOWELL - The author visits at Taunton Elementary School allow students to peek behind the curtain and get an in-person look at the creativity that these authors have. In addition, these visits often inspire the students to dream big and start writing stories of their own. Last year, the students met Jerry Pallotta, author of the “Who Would Win?” series. This year, Ch r is G rabenstei n, best-selling author of the “Mr. Lemoncello’s Librar y” series and many other award-winning books for younger readers, came to the school to share his creative process for writing with the students. Taunton Principal Booke Napoli showed her enthusiasm in a statement about the event. “Author Visit Day is one of my favorite days of the school year! There’s somet h i ng mag ical about seeing our students’ reading and writing come to life when they hear directly from
media people were told ahead of time that school funding and utility costs would be the primary concern of the interviews. These became the first two articles. They were told there would be no “gotcha” questions, but the interviewer would push back if something untrue was said or if more clarification was needed.
Photo courtesy Howell Schools Maya Kaufmann and Melanie Vega present their book, “The Hidden Drawing,” to author visit day guest Chris Grabenstein, author of “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.” an author about the creative process. It inspires them in a way nothing else can,” she said.
The third part of the interview was “dealer’s choice,” where each candidate was given an opportunity to speak their minds about any topic. The results are below. Jack Ciattarelli Jack Ciattarelli used his time to rapid fire through a list of issues and how he felt about them. He began
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Ciattarelli, Sherrill: How They Will Fight High Electric Bills
By Chris Lundy JERSEY SHORE – The cost of electricity increased by 40 percent as demand spiked in the region. This is an issue that affects everyone, so our reporter reached out to gubernatorial candidates - Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill - in separate phone interviews to discuss their plans to address the cost of electricity. This is the second of three articles. The first article was about school funding, published last week. The final article is an open forum for the candidates to discuss what’s important to them.
The effort to bring in the authors is split between school officials and the school’s parent teacher
association, which is comprised of volunteers who put in hours of hard (Author - See Page 3)
Ciattarelli, Sherrill In Their Own Words
By Chris Lundy JERSEY SHORE - In this last installment of our coverage of the governor race, we give the floor to Jack Ciattarelli and Mikie Sherrill to discuss what’s on their minds. Ciattarelli was interviewed by this newspaper on September 22. Sherrill was interviewed on October 14. Their
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by going back to education, stating that public school tests are showing a decline in New Jersey. He urged for more focus on “critical life skills and vocational training.” He also wanted to get rid of what is widely known as state policy 5756. It’s guidance from the state. It has seven pages but the main
sentence that caused controversy is “A school district shall accept a student’s asserted gender identity; parental consent is not required.” “I really don’t believe (school) districts should be keeping secrets from parents,” he said. “Children are best served when parents and school workers are
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Background The state is part of the PJM grid, which connects power to 13 states and the District of Columbia. What happens in New Jersey impacts other areas of the grid, and vice versa. The grid regularly holds a capacity auction where power generators in the region bid on how much power they can provide and at what price. The results of this auction are – in part – why electric bills are going up. Christine Guhl-Sudovy, president of the Board of Public Utilities which oversees electricity, natural gas, and other energy sources, said that of the 32 gigawatts of electricity needed in coming years, 30 of it is needed by data centers. Even if they are not in New Jersey, they are on the PJM grid, and therefore, New Jerseyans will be impacted by it. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers consume 10 to 50 times the amount of electricity of a commercial building of the same size. These buildings house the computers focusing on technology such as artificial intelligence. Jack Ciattarelli Ciattarelli said that when Governor Phil Murphy took office, New Jersey was an electricity exporter. Now, we need to import it. It’s more costly to bring electricity in than to make it here. Solar and wind generation have been key points of Murphy’s plan, because renewable energy is the fastest to set up and electricity is needed now. Republicans have criticized this as being too little, too late. While there are options to put solar on warehouses, Ciattarelli said, “wind would never be able to meet the state’s energy needs.” He also noted that five coal-burning plants and the Oyster Creek Nuclear Station shut down during (Electric Bills - See Page 2)
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