On Campus
      Zandra Zweber, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University, Washington, D.C., has been named to the dean's list for the fall semester. Zweber is a native of Freehold. David Levy, a freshman in the Kogod School of Business at American University, Washington, D.C.
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Students' art earns honors
      Eric Wan of Howell and Alexandra Surdovel of Wall Township were selected Best of Show and first-place winners of the Fourth Congressional District Art Competition for high school artists, held from April 30 through May 3, at Georgian Court University's M. Christina Geis Art Gallery, Lakewood.
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Teacher of the Year award surprises area educator
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer
      FREEHOLD - It is said that when a person is doing what she is supposed to be doing and her life has purpose, she can do whatever that is all day and never tire of it. So it is with Lauren Filipek. Some people take a lifetime to figure out their purpose. Filipek knew hers when she was just a child - to be a teacher.
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Board recognizes teachers, pupils for achievements
      FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - Several students and this year's Governor's Educators of the Year were recognized for their accomplishments at the May 22 meeting of the Freehold Township Board of Education. Regional and national award-winning students and the representative teachers who inspire them attended the meeting among a supportive crowd of community members.
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Teachers, counselor earn honors, education grants
BY VICTORIA HURLEY-SCHUBERT Staff Writer
      MARLBORO - Several staff members in the Marlboro K-8 School District's middle schools have recently been recognized with grants and awards. Adam Lindstrom, a first-year science teacher at the Marlboro Memorial Middle School, Nolan Road, won a grant from the Monarch Butterfly Foundation for his hands-on environmental studies of monarch butterflies.
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