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Another sign of 2016 run?

First lady
quits job as
decision
time nears

BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

TRENTON Gov. Chris Christie says hell announce
whether hes running for president as early as next
month, but his wife has already quit her Wall Street job
in what could be a sign that a Christie campaign is a go.
Christie spokesman Kevin Roberts said in an email
Friday to the Asbury Park Press that first lady Mary
Pat Christie has left her $510,000-per-year job at Angelo, Gordon & Co., which manages hedge funds and alternative investments.
A spokesman for the company said Mary Pat Chris-

tie was a managing director and that she already has

departed.
Mrs. Christie has decided to take a hiatus from her
work in the finance world to spend more time with her
family and young children, Roberts said.
On their 2013 tax return, Mary Pat Christie reported
$510,552 in earnings. Chris Christie gets paid a $175,000
salary as governor.
Seton Hall University political scientist Matthew
Hale said Mary Pat Christies career change is another

ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE PHOTO

N.J. first lady Mary Pat

Christie recently quit her job.

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Lakewood schools
agree to stagger
their start times

Ronnie Micciulla, founder and executive director of American Recreational Military Services in Toms River, shows the contents
of one of the boxes that will be shipped to a soldier overseas.

Call to A.R.M.S.

SHANNON MULLEN @MULLENAPP

LAKEWOOD Leaders of the private schools serving
the townships rapidly growing Orthodox Jewish population have agreed to stagger their start and dismissal
times, a move that would save an estimated $3 million in
annual courtesy busing costs.
The long-sought scheduling change, prompted by
yet another dire budget crisis for the Board of Education, resulted from intensive negotiations involving a
broad spectrum of community leaders.
That such a consensus was even possible marks a
major achievement for a town long divided along political, ethnic and religious lines, those leaders say.
But of more immediate concern is staving off a looming referendum aimed at raising $5.6 million to pay for
courtesy, or non-mandatory, busing.
Were kind of at the breaking point, said Rabbi Aar-

See SCHOOLS, Page 10A

Volunteer group needs your help to fund

shipping of supplies to troops overseas

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

he items are carefully sorted in cardboard boxes or plastic bins.

Beef jerky here. Toothpaste tubes there. Granola bars in one
bin, pairs of socks in another. The volunteers who arrived on a
soggy Tuesday morning pulled items from several spots to be
loaded into a white U.S. Postal Service box. From time to time, a

car pulled up next to the white warehouse in Winding River Park in Toms River
and donors arrived, toting cardboard boxes or plastic bags filled with supplies.
Looking at the volunteers from American Recreational Military Services

Meaghan McCallum was last seen in Long

Branch on March 11.

(A.R.M.S.) hard at work, it was easy to forget that the group which sends care
packages to members of the military from New Jersey and New York is facing
a crisis. Although it has plenty of supplies for its boxes, A.R.M.S. is short of

Missing woman
last seen in March
at Long Branch lot

funds to send them. We are in dire need of funds, said Ronnie Micciulla, an
Eatontown resident who is the founder and executive director of A.R.M.S. Everybody is under the impression the war is over.

See TROOPS, Page 10A

KEN SERRANO @KENSERRANOAPP

LONG BRANCH There were two leads Jim McCallum was pursuing one day last week in searching for his
lost daughter Meaghan: a possible sighting at the
McDonalds on Broadway and another at the Long
Branch Public Library.
But as it has for weeks, the effort of handing out leaflets and asking random people if they have seen her
turned up nothing.
Meaghan McCallum, 30, left her grandmothers
home in Montvale, where she was visiting, late on
March 10 or early on the 11th. She drove to Long
Branch, parked her 1998 Subaru Impreza in a lot at Pier
Village and last was spotted on surveillance video leaving the parking lot at 5:30 a.m. on March 11.

Micciulla (left) and Lucille Springer sort through supplies on April 14. Although it has plenty of supplies
for its boxes, A.R.M.S. is short of funds to send them.

See MISSING, Page 5A

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