Pack a Lunch With a Healthy Punch

This mom around town is planning back to school lunches and has some tips to share.

Back to school means back to packing lunches. Yikes! I have such a hard time coming up with new ideas.  Peanut butter and jelly gets boring. Nutella has been a great backup especially paired with some strawberries, but that gets old too. Regardless, both options will be in my pantry for busy mornings but I need some more interesting solutions. Do you have any good lunch box ideas? I asked around and some other moms shared their tips with me. Elise S., a Cinnaminson mom of two, told me how she brightens up peanut butter and jelly or tuna sandwiches with a little trick. “I sometimes cut them into different shapes with cookie cutters or use a little gadget that cuts the sandwich into a circle with no crusts.” Kids love the “no crust” …

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Monmouth University Wishes To Build New Residence Hall on Campus

Officials from Monmouth University came before the West Long Branch Zoning Board of Adjustment on Thursday evening proposing to build a new residence hall on the school's campus.

Incoming students to Monmouth University may soon have a new option for housing, as the West Long Branch Zoning Board of Adjustment heard a case on Thursday evening for a new residence hall to be built on the campus.  The new residence hall would be built on what is currently Lot 6 at Monmouth University, directly across from the school’s library. According to the architect in charge of this project, Mykhaylo Kulymych, this would be a three-story residence hall. “Along with the three floors, there would be a ground floor that would have a laundry, storage area, lounge and a bookstore annex,” Kulymych noted. When asked by board members if this would be a public area, Monmouth University engineer and planner William Fitzgerald noted it would…

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The Rundown

Rundown: Manasquan School Board Meeting, July 24

Muly resigns, district goals discussed, varsity soccer at Atlantic Club set for vote

The Manasquan School Board on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Christine Muly, created an ad-hoc committee to discuss the district's goals for next school year, and decided to turn down Borough Administrator Joe DeIorio's request to split the cost of a $12,000 video scheduler for the borough's public access TV station.  According to a report from the superintendent, the percentage of students at the High School who failed a random drug yest last school year was higher than both the state and national averages.  The board also discussed next year's in-school suspension room at the High School, which officials hope will provide an incentive for students to quit skipping Saturday detentions.  And in school construction news, the roof …

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NJSIAA Adds Group Classification to Football

Executive committee approves proposal to add Group V

Beginning this fall, 160 high school football teams around the state will have the opportunity to win a state sectional championship, under a proposal approved by the NJSIAA this afternoon. The NJSIAA Executive Committee approved the proposal to create a Group V designation in the four public school sections by a vote of 22-5-3 at its meeting in Robbinsville, according to Jack DuBois, NJSIAA assistant director who's in charge of football. "This creates a greater opportunity for schools and for student-athletes," DuBois said. "It increases the number of teams playing in the playoffs from 128 to 160. At the same time, it eliminates 16 consolation games that schools didn't want to play anyway." The proposal also allows teams whose records are…

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The Dreaded Back to School Shopping

A look at what college students truly need when doing back to school shopping

Hello again everyone and welcome back here to the Monmouth U section on Long Branch Patch. My name is Zach Levine, and if anyone knows where this summer went I would like to know. Really, I can’t find where it went. Checked under my bed, looked in the closet, searched through the glove compartment in my car, I just can’t find where the summer went.  Some of you may say, hey Zach, there is still a few weeks left of the summer, don’t throw a wet blanket over summer vacation yet! To that I say, I am sorry, but the summer is over. Want to know how I know the summer is over? Commercials have been all over television and the radio featuring those terrifying four little words… “Back To School Shopping.” Now, back to school shopping is one of the …

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