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Should
under God
be dropped
in Pledge?

HIGH
LEVELS
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Judge considers lawsuit

against school district
KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP
FREEHOLD A Monmouth County judge is poised to
soon decide a hot-button issue: whether a national atheist group can move forward with its challenge to the use
of under God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Superior Court Judge David Bauman said he will decide shortly whether to grant the Matawan-Aberdeen
Regional School Districts request to dismiss a lawsuit
filed against it by the American Humanist Association.
The Washington-D.C.-based association is seeking to
bar use of the words under God in the daily recitation
of the Pledge of Allegiance by students in pre-kindergarten-through-12th-grade school district.
Bauman, whose nomination to the state Supreme
Court expired before being taken up by the Legislature,

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See PLEDGE, Page A8

WATER?
KEVIN PENTN @KEVINPENTONAPP

BRICK Lead-contaminated water flows through nearly half of

MARIAN ANDERSON AWARD

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Jon Bon Jovi and Nina

Tinari, board chair of the Marian Anderson Award, at the
Marian Anderson Awards gala in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

township homes recently tested for the dangerous element, according

to state regulators.
Water in at least one of the 34 homes included in the study had more

Jon Bon Jovi

lauded for efforts

than 12 times the maximum level allowed by federal regulations, said

Lawrence Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees water quality.

CHRIS JORDAN @CHRISFHJORDAN

State and local officials emphasize that they believe the source of
the contamination is not the water provided by the Brick Municipal

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi knew he had the influence to

make a difference after Sandy struck.
And he didnt waste a minute.
Coming home from a trip to London just after the
storm, he traveled through his hard-hit hometown of
Sayreville, and he couldnt believe what he saw.
I had to go through Sayreville to get to Red Bank, so
I said pull over and we went downtown to where the city
hall is and its total devastation, said Bon Jovi. I was
shocked because its not on the water, its on the

Utilities Authority, but the pipes and other materials inside the homes
See WATER, Page A5

See BON JOVI, Page A4

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