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MOUNT OLIVE TWP. - The township’s grades K-12 school district takes bullying complaints very seriously, period.

Timothy Capone, who has faced criticism by board members and parents for years, says he still does not know why he was placed on administrative leave.

With litigation behind them, the two school boards planned to meet privately to begin exploring a merging of services.

New Jersey Herald MONTAGUE — Residents have a First Amendment right to speak on school issues at board meetings and shouldnt fear being sued for doing so, said Board of Education President Barbara Holstein. To prevent what some have perceived as a chilling effect on public participation, the board voted 5-1 to end its practice of opening the public comment portion of meetings with a warning that those airing grievances could face lawsuits for libel or defamation. "There have been other issu...

New Jersey Herald MONTAGUE — The Board of Education has appointed Krista Mikulski to fill the seat left vacant by Jennifer VanNesss sudden resignation two weeks ago. Mikulski will have up to 30 days to complete the criminal background check required of all new school board members in New Jersey, at which point shell be sworn in to serve the remainder of VanNesss term, which expires in April 2022. VanNess stepped down in protest April 26 after the seven-member board voted ­to place Superint...

It was the only school district in New Jersey where students attended high school in New York, and the arrangement lasted for 85 years. Now a plan to resume sending students from Montague to Port Jervis High School has collapsed, seven years after the rural K-8 district in New Jersey’s northwestern corner switched to High Point Regional High School in Wantage. The Montague school board has ...

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New Jersey Herald MONTAGUE — Superintendent Timothy Capones use of the schools Honeywell phone alert system and social media pages to criticize board members and even district parents is "a conversation that will be continued in executive session with lawyers present," said Board of Education President Barbara Holstein. Holstein said this after the board hosted a presentation on school board ethics by New Jersey School Boards Association representative Kathy Helewa. Capone, however, has sin...