Source: Jersey Hills/The Citizen This past summer, the Thomas Jefferson Middle School decided to convert an empty, U-shaped school courtyard area into a little garden of various veggies, and harvest the goods to donate to a local church. Principal David Waxman implemented the idea of a school-garden while discussing it prior to Covid-19. “We heard […]
Source: New Jersey Patch The United States should stand guard against another COVID spike this winter, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha told National Public Radio. “It stands to reason that as we get into November, December, maybe January, we are going to see an increase in infections across much of the country.” Just […]
PART ONE Source: North Jersey.com “I don’t think anything beats in-school service — kids love having them there,” said Rosie Grant, executive director of the Paterson Education Foundation. Eastside and John F. Kennedy high schools in Paterson offer school-based services, including an after-school drop-in program for students whose parents are not available to transport them […]
Source: North Jersey.com School administrators and service providers are protesting the state’s decision to revamp and centralize its K-12 mental health and support services by eliminating a decades-old program they say provides reliable and critical in-person services to 90 school districts that need them the most — an outcry which nearly overshadows the unveiling of […]
Source: TapInto.Net Phillipsburg Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) is seeking to stop deadly drugs from coming into America by authoring the Homeland Security Fentanyl Enforcement Act (HR 9093) that would expand the Department of Homeland Security authority to help combat the deadly synthetic opioid. Smith says the new legislation comes as US drug enforcement officials discover […]
Sources: AdlerAphasiaCenter.org The Adler Aphasia Center, located in Maywood, NJ, is hosting a fall fundraiser at the home of co-founder, Elaine Adler, in Franklin Lakes, NJ, on Sunday, October 30, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. This fundraiser, Lunch at the Lake, will feature a special presentation by guest speaker Alan Zweibel, Original SNL […]