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Closter Schools Forum Considers Growing Student Population

August 15, 2019 Michael Olohan

CLOSTER, N.J.—Borough and education officials told a packed room Aug. 5 at the Senior Center that they anticipate approximately 40–50 new school children by 2022 or 2023 in Closter’s elementary […]

ALYSSA Act Would Take New Jersey Law Nationwide

August 7, 2019 Michael Olohan

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J.—U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer has introduced a bipartisan bill to require silent alarms in schools nationwide in honor of former resident Alyssa Alhadeff, a 14-year-old killed during the […]

Westwood Police Chief Runs For School Board Amid Book Kerfuffle

August 6, 2019 John Snyder

WESTWOOD, N.J.—Police Chief Michael Pontillo and another recent Westwood Regional School Board critic are running for a seat on the board. The Bergen County Clerk’s office confirmed Pontillo and fellow […]

Residents Urge Council Give Up One-Way Streets Plan

July 30, 2019 John Snyder

WESTWOOD, N.J.—Property owners along Berkeley Avenue between Harrington Avenue and Lowell Street are mobilizing in advance of the Aug. 20 council meeting to make their best case for restoring two-way […]

Forum on Closter Schools Planned As District Hires New Administrators

July 30, 2019 Tom Clancey

CLOSTER, N.J.—Closter Public Schools have a new superintendent and a new elementary school principal. Next, along with elected Republicans from the borough’s governing body and community groups, school leaders are […]

Westwood Regional School Board Set to Answer Parents on Challenged Books

July 22, 2019 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—The regional school board gave itself a reading assignment: digest three books with mature themes and language that Westwood Regional Middle School parents have been arguing have […]

BACK IN TIME: Englewood Opens Lincoln School in 1869

July 22, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Can you imagine these poor kids having to wear long-sleeved dresses and shirts, with stockings and pants, in the summertime heat? Little ones are outdoors for a summer session […]

Suro Appointed Dwight Morrow High School principal

July 22, 2019 Northern Valley Press

This article was submitted by the Englewood Public School District. ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—The Englewood School Board has appointed educator Benjamin Suro to be the new principal of Dwight Morrow High School. […]

Funding For New Jersey School-Silent Alarms Due

July 19, 2019 Michael Olohan

NEW JERSEY—State funding to install silent panic alarms at elementary and secondary schools statewide—part of Alyssa’s Law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in February—may be made available by late summer […]

INTERVIEW: County Risk Expert on School Safety

July 8, 2019 Michael Olohan

PARAMUS, N.J.—Over the past seven years he’s visited each of Bergen County’s 76 school districts, covering hundreds of public and private school buildings. Typically he arrives unannounced and is accompanied […]