South Brunswick: The Week in Review

If the school budget were presented to voters, would you support it?

Twoling. Nilpotent. Tympanum. Three words that any college educated adult would have difficulty pronouncing, much less spelling. But for seventh-grader Aditya Seshadri, it comes with the territory when you're competing for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Vikings are defending GMC and CJ Group IV champions.

The down economy will continue to affect the tax bills of residents after the South Brunswick Board of Education adopted a $138 million spending plan at Monday night's meeting. The budget, which increased by 1.15 percent over last year, lowers the general fund tax levy by about $630,000 to $96.2 million, but the tax rate will increase by about 5-cents to $2.85 per $100 of assessed valuation. 

Week four in the Feinstein Foundation Challenge to Fight Hunger saw an increase in food donations to the South Brunswick Food Pantry.

Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli said the state Department of Education will listen to the concerns of the community before approving a new charter school, after he previously expressed support for a public vote.

Using advances in technology, South Brunswick Police were able to solve a series of crimes over the past three weeks from as far back as 2010.

With South Brunswick's senior population growing, the Township Council is moving forward with plans to expand the . The council approved an ordinance at Tuesday's meeting that appropriates $2.9 million for both the expansion to the center and for lights to be installed on the softball fields at .

It all started with an interest in looking at maps. Soon, eighth-grader Siddharth Kurella took a childhood love of geography to go on to represent South Brunswick for the last two years in the National Geographic Geography Bee. Siddharth, who finished in the top 10 last year, made his final attempt at winning the Bee at the state competition on Friday.

As she puts together a lineup for the start of the boys tennis season, Nancy McDonald has one big advantage over most of the coaches in the state: The South Brunswick High School boys are a talented team with a lot of great options.

For friends, colleagues and former students of South Brunswick educator , who died last week, the influence and legacy he left behind will continue to live on long after the tears for his loss have subsided. Valenti spent 37 years in South Brunswick as a math teacher, department chairperson, supervisor, and assistant principal.