Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic and the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise would like to thank Dr. Arline L. Bronzaft for working with citizens and educators in South Hackensack in stressing the detrimental effects of aircraft noise on students’ learning. Her presentation before the Board of Education in December 1997 …
Dear Editor: Building a new high school in North Hudson’s Braddock Park is a terrible idea and should be abandoned. The notion that it would only take up 7 percent of the park area is ludicrous. This 7 percent would just be the area occupied by the actual building. Students would be swarming over the …
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Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in opposition to the proposed plan to build a school in Hudson County’s Braddock Park. I am sympathetic to the need for better schools in the area as I come from a family of educators. My parents were teachers as are my three sisters and one brother. However, …
Continue reading “We do not have to sacrifice our parkland for a new school”
Dear Editor: Citizens of Hudson County beware! Your precious and irreplaceable urban open space is under attack, and by none other than an undoubtedly sincere but misguided and overzealous Board of Education together and the township of North Bergen! It seems that as a lesson in preserving open space, protecting the environment as well as …
Dear Editor: In 1997, the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN), the Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic (AMCAT), and the League for the Hard of Hearing initiated public discussion on airport noise as it affects children’s health and learning. As a consequence, the Port Authority agreed this month to soundproof one local school. …
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Dear Editor: My name is Elizabeth Cohen and I am the coordinator of the Hoboken Chapter of the Million Mom March. The Million Mom March is a planned march on Washington D.C. on Mother’s Day, May 14, 2000. The purpose of the march is to rally mothers and others from all over the United States …
Dear Editor: Recently, I received a plea for help from Rev. Joseph R. Parrish Jr. of St. John;s Church in Elizabeth. The City of New York, it seems, is sending tons of garbage daily to that New Jersey city. Governor Whitman had given the City of New York a three-year period allowing this activity. New …
Dear Editor: I am opposed to North Bergen building a high school on precious open space in North Hudson Park. I don’t doubt that there is overcrowding, but surely there has to be another solution. North Bergen is a big town. Why not build a smaller high school further south, instead of the extreme end …
Continue reading “Is high school, as we see it, becoming obsolete?”
Dear Editor: The Battleship New Jersey has finally arrived in the Philadelphia Naval Yards. In January 2000, we expect the Secretary of the Navy to make a final decision as to where the most decorated ship in the 200-year history of the Navy will be sent. The New Jersey Battleship Commission appointed by Governor Whitman …
Dear Editor: The Assembly Education Committee recently met to discuss A-3625, the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act. This legislation would dramatically change the way that state aid of school construction is financed. While some of the notions contained in the bill are laudable on paper, they fall far short of equity in practice. For …
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