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‘Dedicated And Beloved’ Roxbury HS Teacher Nicole Connolly Dies After Cancer Battle, 40 ‘Dedicated And Beloved’ Roxbury HS Teacher Nicole Connolly Dies After Cancer Battle, 40
‘Dedicated And Beloved’ Roxbury HS Teacher Nicole Connolly Dies After Cancer Battle, 40 Longtime Roxbury High School teacher Nicole Barbato Connolly died Dec. 4 after a long battle with cancer. She was 40. Born in Dover, Connolly grew up in Mount Olive and attended Rutgers University, where she studied history and graduated with honors in 2003, her obituary says. Connolly then earned a Master’s degree at Rutgers and had worked as a social studies teacher at Roxbury High School for the past 15 years, her memorial says. “A marvelous, passionate, and dedicated educator, Nicole touched the lives of thousands of students, parents and colleagues, as a classroom teacher, club and c…