Catch up on what happened this week in Shamong.
Shamong school district discusses tax decrease and teacher resignation
The Shamong Township School District adopted the 2018–19 budget at last week’s meeting, and overall, the district will see a decrease of 5.07 percent in school taxes.
The total tax levy for the 2017–18 budget was $10,018,910, and the 2018–19 total tax levy is $9,511,338, resulting in a decrease of $507,572.
During public comment, there were numerous students, parents and a faculty member who spoke out in protest of employee Kylene Dudley’s resignation. Dudley is a fifth-grade science and social studies teacher and has been working for the Shamong district for four years. She is also the soccer, track and cheerleading coach at Indian Mills Memorial School.
Board members acknowledged and praised the students courage to speak out; however, they voted to approve Dudley’s resignation, effective June 30.
Seneca High School community service club hosted ‘Doughnut Day’
To celebrate all of the great philanthropic endeavors that take place throughout the year, Seneca High School’s community service club chose to recognize all of those who volunteered throughout the year with “Seneca Doughnut Day” on April 20. The event is took place in the morning, and the community service club students helped to pass out over 1,200 doughnuts and water to all of the students and the staff before the start of school. As the students got off the bus, they were greeted with tables set up with doughnuts and water to start their day.
Lenape Regional High School District Storm Robotics competing at world FIRST Robotics Championship by Zane Clark
For the first time since 2013, the Lenape Regional High School District’s Storm Robotics team will compete on the world stage at the FIRST Robotics Championship in Detroit from April 25 through April 28.
FIRST Robotics Competition is the international organization that oversees high school robotics competitions throughout the world.
Through FIRST, high school students build robots specialized to compete in games where the robots must complete specific, varying tasks each year, such as hanging on bars, picking up blocks, moving balls or flying discs into goals, balancing on beams and more.
