Trout in the Classroom
     From top to bottom: Mariya Karcelova (l) and Alina Filipe, seventh-graders at South River Middle School, participate in Trout in the Classroom, a program designed to connect students to real-life water quality, fish and wildlife issues. The school is one of six in Monmouth and Middlesex counties whose students are raising trout in classrooms as part of the program, sponsored by Freehold Soil Conservation District. In the photo, Filipe uses a test tube to check for nitrate and pH in the fish tank water. South River Middle School seventh-graders Alex Tur (l) and Patrick Purdon clean food and dead fish from the water tank during science class. Gabriella Gallo, 13, and Edimar Silva, 14, draw a picture of a trout.
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Eighth-graders learn how to get dream jobs
Students' ambitions range from training animals to flying planes
BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent
      MILLTOWN - Janice Konigsberg is teaching her students how to make dreams come true. The media specialist at Joyce Kilmer School has established a career development class that starts with a dream. "The first day of class I ask them: If they could have any job they wanted, what would it be?" Konigsberg said.
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Band Concert
      Spotswood High School students rehearse recently for the second annual District Band Concert, which features the high school jazz band and wind ensemble as well as the middle school bands from Milltown and Spotswood. The concert is held each year, in part to allow younger students from both towns to make a smoother transition to the high school instrumental program.
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