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Hackensack High School Students Had Clever Alternative To National Walkout Hackensack High School Students Had Clever Alternative To National Walkout
Hackensack High School Students Had Clever Alternative To National Walkout National Walkout Day was cancelled in Hackensack due to security concerns, school officials announced. "In response to security concerns brought to the attention of administration at Hackensack High School earlier today, Tuesday, March 13, the walk-out planned for tomorrow has been cancelled," Superintendent Rosemary Marks and Asst. Superintendent Andrea Parchment said. Instead, student organizers shared a presentation in support of the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, which will be streamed to all classrooms via the school TV Studio. Student Mackenzie Carroll felt …

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by Cecilia Levine
Neighbors
Hackensack Teacher's New Book Takes On American Divisiveness Hackensack Teacher's New Book Takes On American Divisiveness
Hackensack Teacher's New Book Takes On American Divisiveness HACKENSACK, N.J. — A new book written by Hackensack High School English teacher Christopher Ryan is aimed right at the heart of current national debates driving us further apart each day. 

“It seems everybody in America is mad at or disapproves of some other segment of our cultural landscape,” said Ryan, a New Milford Board of Education member.  “From politics to the media to religion to race to even our own neighbors, these days we disagree more often than we find common ground. What if all this divisiveness continues to tear at the fabric of our society? What will become of America?” 

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Catnip Cocktail, $4M Rembrandt Top Bergen County News This Week Catnip Cocktail, $4M Rembrandt Top Bergen County News This Week
Catnip Cocktail, $4M Rembrandt Top Bergen County News This Week These are the five stories that topped Bergen and Passaic county news this week at Daily Voice: CATNIP COCKTAIL: A driver was under the influence of a "catnip cocktail" when he suddenly jerked his car across several lanes of Route 23, said police who arrested him. REMBRANDT: What three Teaneck brothers thought was just another inheritance painting under the ping-pong table in their basement turned out to be a lost Rembrandt recently auctioned off at nearly $4 million, Fox Business reports. MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL? Maywood school officials “must seek alternative remedies,” after rejec…

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by Daily Voice
Schools
Future Uncertain For Incoming Maywood High Schoolers Future Uncertain For Incoming Maywood High Schoolers
Future Uncertain For Incoming Maywood High Schoolers MAYWOOD, N.J. — Maywood school officials “must seek alternative remedies,” after rejecting the terms of a contract that would have allowed them to continue sending students to Hackensack High School, Schools Supt. Michael Jordan wrote in an email to parents. Those remedies “are yet to be determined,” Jordan wrote in the letter dated Jan. 16, and obtained by Daily Voice. He blamed soaring costs for rejecting a final out-of-district contract offer from Hackensack. "The Maywood BOE can no longer afford a tuition rate that is 20 percent of its operating budget as well as the added costs of…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson
Police & Fire
Police: Hackensack High Students Caught Pulling Fire Alarm -- Twice Police: Hackensack High Students Caught Pulling Fire Alarm -- Twice
Police: Hackensack High Students Caught Pulling Fire Alarm -- Twice HACKENSACK, N.J. – Two 15-year-old Hackensack High School students pulled school fire alarms Tuesday afternoon, said police who took them into custody. One pulled the alarm at 1 p.m., said Capt. Francesco Aquila, the officer-in-charge of the department. "The Fire Department responded, reset it, and a little while later, another student pulled [the alarm]," forcing firefighters to return, Aquila said. Neither was identified because they're juveniles. They were served with delinquency complaints of creating a false public alarm, Aquila said. The case will be heard in the Family D…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson & Jerry DeMarco