Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: April is Autism Awareness Month. The lifelong developmental disorder, once rare, now affects 1 in 49 New Jersey children and their families. And as the rate of autism has grown, the effects of autism have rippled out, reaching into schools, churches and synagogues, supermarkets, movie theaters, restaurants, fire departments and first aid squads, …
Continue reading “For those with autism, the community is the classroom”
Dear Editor: I am not sure everyone realizes that the state of New Jersey has a senior freeze program for property tax relief for owners who are 65 or over and live in their homes. To qualify, your income must be under a state determined maximum. The way the program works, once you establish a …
Dear Editor: I read in the Sunday, March 31st North Bergen Reporter that the North Bergen Board of Education has adopted a $120 million dollar school budget. I have not seen the details of this budget. However; I agree with Business Administrator Steven Somick when he says. “If the budget is voted down, we’ll look …
Continue reading “Is the school budget affected by tax abatements?”
Dear Editor: It’s hard to believe how quickly time has gone by since Superstorm Sandy devastated many of our New Jersey communities, damaging homes and businesses and wreaking widespread havoc on the lives of Garden State families in its path. In the wake of Sandy’s destruction, we also saw the character of our New Jersey …
Continue reading “Help for Sandy’s emotional impact is available”
Dear Editor: Suppose there was a class of citizens who could be factually categorized as “state sanctioned,” bona fide good guys/girls. Now suppose that the official policy of that state was to assail that group to the point where, in effect, feeling so targeted, so denigrated and then ultimately so fearful that they actually started …
Dear Editor: I just wanted to say a big thank you and a job well done to North Bergen Mayor State Senator Nicholas Sacco, Commissioner of Public Works Frank Garguilo, The North Bergen DPW crew, Paul Juliano, Director of DPW, Fairview, N.J. and the Fairview DPW crew who all worked so diligently over a few …
Dear Editor: I just wanted to say a big thank you and a job well done to North Bergen Mayor State Senator Nicholas Sacco, Commissioner of Public Works Frank Garguilo, The North Bergen DPW crew, Paul Juliano, Director of DPW, Fairview, N.J. and the Fairview DPW crew who all worked so diligently over a few …
Dear Editor: As of January 29th, 2010 children with diabetes have been allowed by NJ law to self-manage their diabetes in public schools. NJ law N.J.S.A. 18A:40-12.11-21 allows a parent to provide written authorization to the school nurse requesting that their diabetic child be allowed to self-manage on school grounds. The law states “C.18A:40-12.13 Development …
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Dear Editor: As of January 29th, 2010 children with diabetes have been allowed by NJ law to self-manage their diabetes in public schools. NJ law N.J.S.A. 18A:40-12.11-21 allows a parent to provide written authorization to the school nurse requesting that their diabetic child be allowed to self-manage on school grounds. The law states “C.18A:40-12.13 Development …
Continue reading “Kids self-manage diabetes on school grounds”
Dear Editor: In New Jersey, we spend billions of dollars each year on public education. Yet we fail to do a simple and inexpensive thing that can help thousands of children succeed in school. Feed them breakfast. Despite the existence of a federal school breakfast program and the undisputed benefits of breakfast, New Jersey ranks …