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New Oradell Biz Administrator With Regretful Past 'Deserves This Chance,' Board Prez Says New Oradell Biz Administrator With Regretful Past 'Deserves This Chance,' Board Prez Says
New Oradell Biz Administrator With Regretful Past 'Deserves This Chance,' Board Prez Says The president of the Oradell Board of Education said Monday that district officials are confident their new business administrator will succeed despite a regretful past. Peter Iapelli, who was appointed to the post earlier this month, "deserves this chance," Oradell School Board President Dorothy Watson-Nichols said, adding that the panel "conducted its due diligence" in hiring him. Iapelli made headlines when he was accused of cursing out and putting his hands on a 16-year-old coach in front of 75 or so people at a peewee flag football game in Westwood in September 2017. Iapelli, who’d b…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago
Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago A relatively new law in New Jersey allowed a man to sue the Englewood school district for what he said was sexual abuse by teachers more than 50 years ago. The man identified as “D.H.” in court papers contends that he was groomed as a victim, beginning when an Engle Street School teacher tackled and held him down on a 6th-grade overnight trip to Montreal in 1967. The teacher "held him down with the full weight of his body," the plaintiff contends. The same teacher then got him and other students to drink booze and smoke cigarettes with him in his apartment, the suit alleges. The teacher -…

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by Jerry DeMarco