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Presidents daughter, son-in-law could bring

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WHITE HOUSE TOUCH

IN LONG BRANCH STATE FINANCIAL AID
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Lakewood
schools could
still lose staff,
despite loan
PAYTON GUION @PAYTONGUION

LAKEWOOD - While the Lakewood public school

community breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the
3 state announced an $8.5 million bailout, substantial
staff and budget cuts still loom.
In announcing the help, state officials said the $8.5
million loan to Lakewood will preserve 127 teaching and
staff positions, including 106 classroom teachers. That
still leaves more than a dozen positions on the chopping
block, including guidance counselors and librarians,
said Kimberlee Shaw, president of the Lakewood Edu-
cation Association, the local teachers union.
Also unclear is the extent of cuts to after-school pro-
grams. The state said boys and girls athletics would be
saved, but mentioned only baseball, soccer and track.
4 School Board President Barry Iann said the status of
other sports is unknown. Orchestra and band were the
only other extracurricular activities listed as being
preserved, though summer school also is expected to
continue.
Programs beyond that drama and other groups
face an uncertain future as well.
A week before the loan was revealed, Lakewood laid
off around 140 teachers and staff about a quarter of
its employees and faced the prospect of cutting after-

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LONG BRANCH - If you stroll or go for a swim at the beach in the exclusive For videos and photo galleries of this weeks protest in
Elberon section of the city, you might come across a well-placed warning on a Trenton, search Lakewood students at APP.com.
concrete wall: No Trespassing Video Surveillance Direct to the Police.
The sign is affixed to the back security wall of the $7.6 million white stucco MORE
mansion, home to the parents of the most powerful son-in-law in the nation, Ja- ONLINE
red Kushner.
Kushner, 36, not only is married to President Donald Trumps daughter Ivan-
ka, but is one of the presidents closest advisers. He has been tasked with
streamlining the federal government and bringing peace to the Middle East.
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Ex-Christie bank
Some members of the community say they welcome a visit from the Kushn-
ers.
I would love them as customers. They havent been here yet. Tell Ivanka to
search for
Jared Kushner
or Ivanka
board nominee
please stop in, said Vanessa Broochian, owner of Frostings, a kids decorative
apparel and gift shop in Elberons business district.
Trump for
more, including
photo galleries.
scammed bank
See TOUCH, Page 2A
ALEX N. GECAN @GEEKSTERTWEETS

1. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen with their children in New York City. 2. Surveillance cameras are
shown on the oceanfront side of Charles Kushners home on Ocean Avenue at Adams Street in Long Branch. 3.
Trump and Kushner are holding onto scores of real estate investments while they serve in White House jobs. 4.
A beach view of the Kushners oceanfront property in the Elberon section of Long Branch.
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Bloody shrapnel discovered at battlefield
South River resident Bill Hermstedt (left) JERRY CARINO @NJHOOPSHAVEN
found a historic piece of what is called
canister shot at Monmouth Battlefield State Its a hexagonal piece of lead, maybe the size of a
Park last summer. The piece of ordnance fingertip. Canister shot, it was called, and the Conti-
(below) tested positive for human blood nental Army used it to shred British lines at the Bat-
protein. tle of Monmouth in June of 1778.
When his team of volunteer archaeologists found
this and other pieces of ordnance in the ground at
Monmouth Battlefield State Park last summer, Dan
Sivilich suspected they were not your typical arti-
facts.
Two appeared to have fabric impressions on them
which suggested they might have hit a uniform, Si-
vilich said.
He sent them to PaleoResarch Inc. in Colorado for
testing. Nine months later his hunch was proven cor-
rect and then some. One of the pieces tested posi-
tive for human blood protein.
In other words, it hit a soldier, Sivilich said.
This is the only piece of Revolutionary War canister
shot ever found thats been positively tested for hu-
man blood.
Thats not all. Based on where they were discov-
NEWARK - A Middletown attorney once tapped by
Gov. Chris Christie to the state Banking Advisory
Board has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in a multi-
million-dollar bank fraud scheme that overlapped her
nomination.
Donna M. Conroy pleaded guilty Wednesday to one
count of conspiring to make false entries to deceive a
bank and bank regulators, and to influence those reg-
ulators, and one count of making false entries, accord-
ing to a prepared statement from the U.S. Attorneys
Office for the District of New Jersey.
Conroy, a Cranford attorney who lives in Middle-
town, was nominated by the governor in May 2010 to
serve on the state Banking Advisory Board, an advisory
panel. Her nomination was withdrawn that October
when, according to court documents, a conspiracy to
defraud the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was in full
swing.
Conroy thanked the governor and withdrew as a can-
didate in an Oct. 13, 2010, letter forwarded by the Gover-
See BANK, Page 4A
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