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Gym Teacher From Bergen County Betsy Groat Left Major Impact On Students Gym Teacher From Bergen County Betsy Groat Left Major Impact On Students
Gym Teacher From Bergen County Betsy Groat Left Major Impact On Students A beloved teacher who was a fixture at a Northern Westchester high school for decades is being remembered for her contagious positive energy and her tremendous impact on her students throughout her long career.   Elizabeth “Betsy” Groat of Ho-Ho-Kus in Bergen County died on Wednesday, Oct. 30 after a battle with cancer, according to her obituary.   Groat, who taught physical education and coached at Westlake High School in Thornwood, dedicated 38 years to inspiring and supporting student-athletes in the Mount Pleasant School District, according to a GoFundMe page created in her honor that i…

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by Ben Crnic
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COVID-19: NY Dad Locks Son Out Of House After Spring Break Trip COVID-19: NY Dad Locks Son Out Of House After Spring Break Trip
Covid-19: NY Dad Locks Son Out Of House After Spring Break Trip One Hudson Valley dad isn't fooling around when it comes to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), locking his spring-break partying son out of the house. Peter Levine, of Nanuet in Rockland County, which has been hit hard by the pandemic, was worried a few weeks ago when his son Matt Levine, a junior student-athlete at Springfield College in Massachusetts, headed to South Padre Island in Texas with a group of friends to party down for a couple of weeks, reported the New York Post. But the more the 52-year-old father thought about it, the more he thought his son should come home and follow the r…

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by Kathy Reakes