Nearly every student in the Moriarty-Edgewood School District rides the bus to school every morning and back home every afternoon. But now the district is scrambling to find a solution before school starts in August to the problem of its main bus contractor closing up shop.

By LEE ROSS Mountain View Telegraph The principal of Moriarty Middle School, Dawn Tinsley, requested a brand-new school at Tuesday night's Moriarty-Edgewood school board meeting.

By BETH HAHN Mountain View Telegraph One of the first actions of a new Moriarty Municipal Schools Board of Education could be a new vote on whether to close Edgewood Elementary School. Five candidates expressed support for revisiting the issue during a forum on Jan. 25.

Moriarty school district officials seem to be adopting a wait- and-see attitude. It's probably the best course of action, given that the Moriarty Municipal Schools have nothing to lose and everything to gain by waiting a little longer.

The prospect of the closure of Edgewood Elementary School has been a contentious issue throughout the Moriarty Municipal Schools district. A current campaign to forestall that school closure seems on the verge of becoming equally divisive.