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Kids Are All Right: 'Missing' School Bus Stirs Anxiety For Parents At Franklin Lakes Dropoffs Kids Are All Right: 'Missing' School Bus Stirs Anxiety For Parents At Franklin Lakes Dropoffs
Kids Are All Right: 'Missing' School Bus Stirs Anxiety For Parents At Franklin Lakes Dropoffs Parents in one Bergen County neighborhood got a scare when nearly an hour passed without their children being dropped off from middle school at the end of the day. All was well, however. Franklin Lakes police got calls from several anxious Franklin Avenue Middle School parents on Peach Tree Lane shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, Capt. Mark McCombs said. Officers quickly found the bus in the area of Huron Road, a little less than a mile away, the captain said.  The kids were all right, McCombs said. It turned out school officials had given the driver a new route that stu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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COVID-19 Outbreak Among School Bus Drivers Suspends Service In This PA District COVID-19 Outbreak Among School Bus Drivers Suspends Service In This PA District
Covid-19 Outbreak Among School Bus Drivers Suspends Service In This PA District One school district in Montgomery County has suspended all bus services for students after a COVID-19 outbreak among its schools' transportation company, 6abc Action News reports. The Perkiomen Valley School District Superintendent Dr. Barbara Russell confirmed more than 30 COVID-19 cases were been reported within Student Transportation America. Elementary students moved to remote learning, while parents of high schoolers were left scrambling to make other transportation arrangements. Transportation worker Lynn Himes, died this week due to the virus, school officials told 6abc. Russell sa…

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by Nicole Acosta
Lifestyle
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Toward the end of the 2019 school year, Jersey City father Norbert Sygdziak got a phone call from his son’s school district about an “unnerving event” that would require new bus arrangements. The call prompted Sygdziak to think seriously about school bus safety. He ultimately left his 19-year career in the legal industry to launch and take on a CEO role at RideAlong -- a child-oriented ride-share service with Jersey City native, Fateen Reid. "Despite all the advantages we have as a society, most parents are still forced to place their children on yellow school buses with little to no info…

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by Valerie Musson
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Traffic Changes Promised After Bus Hits Norwood Teen Traffic Changes Promised After Bus Hits Norwood Teen
Traffic Changes Promised After Bus Hits Norwood Teen An additional crossing guard will likely be placed in Norwood after a student was struck by a bus, township officials said. Lucas Soliman, 13, was attempting to cross South Avenue at Clinton Street after school last Friday when he was struck by a school bus for the town's Valley Program, his father, William Soliman, told Daily Voice. The driver of one bus -- belonging to the Rinaldi Bus Company in Closter -- waved him across, but another bus heading in the same direction failed to stop, according to Soliman. Lucas ran into the moving bus headed toward Livingston Street that knocked him dow…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames
Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames Nothing rattles 11-year-old Rocco Arcese of Mahwah – the kid’s an award-winning downhill racer. So when the school bus he’d just gotten on caught fire Tuesday morning, he calmly told the driver he’d better pull over. Rocco was the Durham Bus Company driver’s first pickup on the way to Joyce Kilmer Middle School. They’d gone barely 300 yards on Chapel Road in Fardale when the fifth-grader smelled smoke. So they quickly got off. SEE: Flames Consume Mahwah School Bus Police officers were there instantly and members of Mahwah Fire Co. 4 quickly doused the Durham Bus Company engine fire. Whi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Hero Driver Gets Students Off Burning Cresskill School Bus Hero Driver Gets Students Off Burning Cresskill School Bus
Hero Driver Gets Students Off Burning Cresskill School Bus CRESSKILL, N.J. — A bus driver got two students out of the vehicle before it erupted in flames Wednesday morning, authorities said. The Valley Transportation driver said he was traveling north on Knickerbocker Road when he observed smoke coming from the engine around 8:50 a.m., Cresskill Police Detective Charles Franke said. No injuries were reported, police said. He pulled over and exited the bus with two students, and all took shelter in the vehicle of a driver who had pulled to the side of the road, according to Creskill police. Police did not know which school the bus was headed to, Fr…

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by Cecilia Levine