The Board of Education hopes to interview prospective schools Superintendent candidates in the two months leading up to the 2014-2015 school year, the board’s vice president said June 19. Eva Nagy, sitting in for board president Julia Presley, said that the board is “on track” in looking for the district’s next top executive.

Schedule changes that would result in more homework and added – albeit shorter – lunch periods for Franklin High School students and longer science and social studies classes for Sampson G. Smith 6th graders will be up for votes at the Board of Education’s June 26 meeting. Details of the changes were discussed at the board’s June 19 meeting.

A 70-mm mortar shell that could date back to as long ago as World War I was taken for disposal June 20 from the front of police headquarters by the bomb commander of the State Police bomb squad. The mortar was brought to the headquarters at about 11 a.m. by a township resident who said he found it in the bottom …

The characteristics and traits that should be embodied by the next schools Superintendent will be discussed at the June 19 Board of Education meeting. Information gleaned from an online survey, meetings with parents, board members, faculty and staff, township officials and the community at large has been distilled by the district’s search firm, Hazard, Young & Attea Associates. Firm representatives will …

Waldorf, MD – The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs (21-32) defeated the Somerset Patriots (32-20) 2-1 Wednesday evening from Regency Furniture Stadium.  

A South Brunswick man was arrested on June 17 on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a township girl over a 13-month period. Brandon O. Cox, 20, was charged with 2nd Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault and 3rd Degree Endangering, according to a press release from Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano.

Waldorf, MD – The Somerset Patriots (32-19) defeated the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs (20-32) 5-4 Tuesday evening from Regency Furniture Stadium.  

UPDATE: MacAfee Road School principal Bill Grippo said he felt fine after spending the night of June 17 on the school’s roof. “It was very cool, and there weren’t any bugs,” he said the next morning, as students filed off buses below his perch. “I borrowed a futon from one of the teachers, and that was a lifesaver.”

The 71-year-old township resident who suffered serious head injuries June 17 after she was struck by a car while riding her bike has died, police said. Police said Judith Schrope died later in the day. She was riding her bicycle on Weston Road when she was hit, police said.

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots defeated the Long Island Ducks 5-4 at TD Bank Ballpark on Monday evening.