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Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails
Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails A Hackensack Board of Education trustee stirred controversy when she told district officials that she was not only disturbed by the state's new LGBT school curriculum law -- but felt it would be a waste of time for students, a new report reveals. The words "repugnant" and "disgust" were used by Frances Cogelia in emails to district officials expressing her sentiments toward the new state LGBT laws, which requires LGBT history be incorporated in middle and high school curriculums, OutInJersey reports. Cogelja sent several emails to Acting Superintendent Rosemary Marks saying the law was shoc…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
NVD Students, Parents Fight To Keep Music Teacher In The Classroom NVD Students, Parents Fight To Keep Music Teacher In The Classroom
NVD Students, Parents Fight To Keep Music Teacher In The Classroom If not for Anna D'Achille, Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest would not have a men's choir. The women's choir that disbanded in 2017 would not have been reestablished. There would be no NVD District Vocal Music Day and the school productions of "Footloose" and "Mamma Mia!" would have been entirely different. So when it came to light that D'Achille would not be returning to the high school for the 2019-20 year, many students and parents were heartbroken. Students turned out in droves to Monday's BOE meeting, sharing heartfelt words on how impactful D'Achille has been in her t…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault
Bias Crime? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault His young daughter cowered in the back seat as a Hindu priest was attacked by a Mahwah man during a road-rage incident in the parking lot of a Route 17 shopping center in Ramsey, according to a police complaint. Members of the Hindu community are now demanding justice in the alleged attack. Ramsey police charged Nicholas Dow, 30, who lives next door to the Hindu Samaj Temple of Mahwah on West Ramapo Avenue, with simple assault and burglary following the April 3 incident at the Interstate Shopping Center. They then referred the case to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to be considered…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
K9-Loving Military Family Fights For Return Of Bomb-Sniffing ‘Mattie Cakes’ K9-Loving Military Family Fights For Return Of Bomb-Sniffing ‘Mattie Cakes’
K9-Loving Military Family Fights For Return Of Bomb-Sniffing ‘Mattie Cakes’ “The emptiness in our home is palpable,” the wife of a Central Jersey Army National Guardsman who had his bomb-sniffing dog taken back by his employer said Friday. “We all miss her,” Deirdre Igoe-Fennessy said. Her husband, Seamus, had been handling and training Mattie the past five years. After the 20-year Guardsman was summoned for long-term active duty in nearby New York, MSA Security took her back. It began as a local story but has begun picking up steam via an online petition and Facebook page. The nearly 7-year-old black Lab has only known the Middlesex County (Old Bridge) coup…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Dog Suffers Third Degree Burns From Heating Pad At Ridgefield Park Vet Dog Suffers Third Degree Burns From Heating Pad At Ridgefield Park Vet
Dog Suffers Third Degree Burns From Heating Pad At Ridgefield Park Vet UPDATE: Investigators are eyeing two dogs burned by a heating pad at the Ridgefield Park Animal Hospital. For Cris Repoles, there's nothing worse than seeing her bulldog Cooper suffer. That's why she took him to the Ridgefield Park Animal Hospital in the first place. But Repoles says the past three months have been nothing but pain for both herself and the dog, who suffered third-degree burns from heating pads during ACL surgery at the vet in December. To make matters worse for Repoles, head doctor Paul Kim initially treated the burns as skin allergies, as they looked similar to the condi…

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by Cecilia Levine