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Asbury Park Schools

Asbury Park BOE looks to reorganize district

Barack H. Obama building would be reinstated as elementary school

By Jill Bartlett


Due to high elementary school enrollment in the district, the Barack H. Obama School may be put back into operation as an elementary school come September. The Asbury Park Board of Education voted 9-0 Tuesday night to have school administrators develop a reorganization plan and provide a cost analysis of what it would take to […]

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Jan 30, 2014
Asbury Park

City celebrates Obama’s inauguration

'This is all about bringing this to the children so they can dream and be anything they want to'

By Molly Mulshine


Asbury residents gathered in the Barack Obama Building today for a viewing party to celebrate two special occasions — Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the President’s second inauguration. The coinciding of the two days “makes [the inauguration] even more special,” said Donald Hammary Jr., who was volunteering with the city’s Masonic Lodge. “It’s a […]

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Jan 21, 2013