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11,000 kids lose busing

FRIDAY 07.24.15

Lakewood monitor cancels courtesy transportation

SHANNON MULLEN @MULLENAPP
LAKEWOOD Nearly 11,000 children attending public and private schools will be without free busing in the
coming school year, the school district announced
Thursday.
The dramatic move affects an estimated 8,400 private school students and 2,400 public school students
who in prior years would have qualified for courtesy, or
nonmandatory, busing, under the districts busing
guidelines.
But times have changed. The district is now under
the supervision of a state-appointed monitor, Michael
Azzara, who made the decision to cancel the courtesy

busing program in the face of a transportation budget

shortfall of $8.3 million.
Azzaras decision comes after recent negotiations
with leaders of the townships private Orthodox Jewish religious schools failed to either resuscitate plans
to stagger the private schools start and dismissal
times or find another affordable alternative, he said.
The change will leave 53 percent of all public
school students without busing for next year, the district said. That means a huge headache for thousands
of parents who will have to scramble to find ways to
get their children to school safely and potentially
See BUSING, Page 8A

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YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

Police seek clues in shooting that left three men

injured in Long Branch as children played on street Go sky-high on a

hot air balloon ride

Make your summer soar with a visit to the New Jersey Festival
of Ballooning, the largest summertime hot air balloon and
music festival in North America.

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A Long Branch police officer speaks with a witness on Coleman Avenue late Wednesday evening following a shooting that
injured three people.

ERIK LARSEN AND STEPH SOLIS

@ERIK_LARSEN AND @STEPHMSOLIS
LONG BRANCH Sixteen-year-old Daryl was standing on the footpath in front of his multi-family home
when he heard what he thought were firecrackers coming out of the darkness all around him.
He soon learned that it wasnt firecrackers it was
gunshots. A barrage of bullets sprayed Coleman Avenue, which still was teeming with small children playing in their yards when the shots rang out about 9 p.m.
Wednesday, wounding three men. One remains hospitalized.
Honestly, I didnt see a body until (others) pointed it
out, said Daryl, whose last name is being withheld.
Im thinking its fireworks, looking around. At first, I
wasnt taking it as seriously as it was because I didnt
think it was a shooting. ... Nobody expected it, it was just
a regular day, kids running around, having fun, playing
in the yard. And then the worst happened.
Police responded in force after the shooting, swarm-

ing around the crime scene Wednesday night, with

some officers carrying automatic weapons. At least 18
evidence markers were placed at the scene, many appearing to identify shell casings.
April Woods, an Elberon First Aid Squad member,
said the man left wounded on the street suffered two
gunshot wounds to his back but was alert and conscious
at the scene. The Long Branch man was taken to an undisclosed local hospital, where he was listed in stable
condition, Webster said.
Woods, 36, who also is a full-time emergency medical technician, lives just around the block from the
shooting and was among the first to respond to the
scene.
I was in my house, Woods said. We heard gunshots
and so I went and turned my radio on; Im an EMT. ...
When I heard my squad dispatched, I grabbed my little
jump bag and went onto the scene to take care of the
patient. We pretty much cut his shirt off, we applied
See SHOOTING, Page 4A

You can peek at Pharoah

STEPHEN EDELSON @STEVEEDELSONAPP

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American Pharoah, parading in front of 30,000 at Churchill

Downs in June, will be available for fans to see at Monmouth
Park before the Haskell. MORE COVERAGE, SPORTS.

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When American Pharoah arrives at Monmouth Park

next week, there will be as many as four separate opportunities for the public to get a glimpse of the first Triple
Crown winner in 37 years.
American Pharoah will leave his current base at Del
Mar in California on Wednesday morning and board a
flight for Atlantic City International Airport, touching
down at 1:30 p.m.
A police escort will then deliver American Pharoah
to the Monmouth Park backstretch and trainer Kelly
Breens barn, where Baffert traditionally stables his
horses for the $1 million William Hill Haskell Invitational, set for Sunday, Aug. 2.
Then, American Pharoah will gallop three straight
days, beginning next Thursday, on the Monmouth Park
track between 7:30 and 7:50 a.m., when the track will
only be open for Haskell participants. The clubhouse
See PHAROAH, Page 8A

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VOLUME 136
NUMBER 176
SINCE 1879

See Nicki
Minaj in
Holmdel

Baseball,
Bruce in
Lakewood

The singer brings her

Pinkprint Tour to the PNC
Bank Arts Center.

Its Springsteen
appreciation night at the
BlueClaws.

Happy Hour
Dive Coastal Bar, Sea Bright. 3-7 p.m.
$4 beers on tap; $5 house wines;
$6 fruit-infused cocktails; $6 Deep Eddy
vodka; $1 clams; $1.50 oysters.
Aqua Blu Kitchen and Cocktails, Toms
River. 2-6 p.m. $2 domestic drafts; $5 house
wines, martinis, cocktails; $1 clams and
oysters; $1 chicken wings.
Court Jester, Freehold. 4-6 p.m. $2.95 draft
beers; $4.50 selected domestic monster mugs; $3.50 selected
wines; $3.50 bar pours.

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