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This is an AI-based summary and recap of last Monday's Board of Education meeting for South Hunterdon Regional School District. The full video of the meeting is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Nn4QTt2VRMI The agenda is available here: https://go.boarddocs.com/nj/shrsd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DXCGPL44C65C Summary:

Figure 1 - Totals spent on LPS and Middle School up to Fall, 2025 Since the new Middle School and revamped LPS(*) have come online post-referendum, there have been a large number of additional mainteannce outlays that are driving the total costs of ownership of these buildings through the roof. To help people understand why people are so upset these expenditures, you need to look at how much we spent on these buildings from 2022 to the fall of 2025. (*) Yes, LPS was renamed t

The next public meeting of the South Hunterdon Regional School District is Monday, Sept 28th, 2026 We have the partial agenda (some items still TBD). The draft agenda is available here: https://go.boarddocs.com/nj/shrsd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DXCGPL44C65C Items of note in the agenda to keep an eye on: A resolution to appoint Superintendent Suozzo as "emergency board secretary" in the "event of an emergency or absence of the current Board Secretary from a Board of Education

By Mike Spille Article Updated 9/6/202 With Infographic Timeline In the summer of 2025, two big things happened at the South Hunterdon Regional School District. First, they appointed a new, totally inexperienced Business Administrator named Dr. Peter Lutchko. Second, they got socially engineered out of $147,000. We've been sitting on this story since the Spring of 2026, but it's time for the public to know. By the summer of 2025, J. Andrew Harris was out as BA, and Dr. Lutchk

By Mike Spille The South Hunterdon Regional School District (SHRSD)'s August 2026 meeting was held last night at the high school. I wasn't there, and based on the livestream you weren't either. Here's the AI take on the meeting.

The monthly South Hunterdon Regional School District (SHRSD) Board of Education meeting is tonight at 7pm at the High School. The agenda for the meeting is available here. The meeting is being live streamed as well. Go here for the livestream at 7pm. Given that we are in mid-summer, things are very slow with the district right now, so not much to report. The turf field has a change order, increasing the costs to an eye-popping $1,724,979.40 in total. The change order totals a

There is a BOE meeting tonight, 03/17/2025, at 7:00pm at the High School in the cafeteria. The full agenda is available here: ...

Yesterday, we wrote a brief article indicating that the BOE would be holding a special "working session" focused on the budget process...

Tomorrow the BOE will have a "working meeting" to discuss the 2025/26 school year budget process. The meeting will be held at 7pm at the...

The South Hunterdon BOE meeting tonight covered a lot of ground. For context, see our pre-meeting article analyzing the agenda items first...

The regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting for February is being held tonight, February 24, 2025 at 7:00pm in the High School...

Today the New Jersey School Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint from a local resident that a South Hunterdon School Board member that...

As promised, we are carefully tracking the spending situation at the South Hunterdon School District on a month by month basis. This is...

High School Wrestling in the region has seen a large resurgence in the past couple of years, and South Hunterdon is part of that trend....

This week, a job opening appeared for a new High School Principal in the School District. The job description specifies a fairly junior...

While our district athletes have to beg for money to keep their sports alive, teachers fear for the jobs being slashed in budget cuts,...

Board of Education public meetings continue to be controversial and also are providing more and more insight into major school issues....

Today the South Hunterdon Regional School District released a "Winter 2025 Benchmarks" report as part of an effort to better gauge...

An accounting firm found South Hunterdon Regional School District financials to be sloppy and incomplete, with inadequate processes to...

On Friday, December 20th, former South Hunterdon Board Member Dr. Filomena Hengst sent a formal complaint to the SHRSD Board of Education...