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Death Of Passionate North Jersey Music Teacher At 38 Prompts Outpour Of Scholarship Donations Death Of Passionate North Jersey Music Teacher At 38 Prompts Outpour Of Scholarship Donations
Death Of Passionate North Jersey Music Teacher At 38 Prompts Outpour Of Scholarship Donations Scholarship funds and tributes are pouring in on behalf of a passionate North Jersey music teacher and mother following her tragic passing at age 38. Meredith Sullivan Boyan, of New Vernon, died Thursday, August 10, leaving a legacy of “strength and courage,” her obituary says. Born in New Brunswick, Meredith was raised in Somerville and attended Somerville High School, where she participated in jazz, concert, and marching bands, as well as theater, and chorus before graduating in 2003. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in music education from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Ru…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Jersey City Music Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Male Student: Prosecutor Jersey City Music Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Male Student: Prosecutor
Jersey City Music Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Male Student: Prosecutor A Jersey City music teacher was arrested for sexually assaulting a male student, authorities said. David Musial, a 62-year-old city resident, abused the child from 2018 to 2022, beginning when the victim was 14 years old, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The assaults occurred in Musial’s music studio on River Drive South in Jersey City, the prosecutor said. Musial was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, child endangerment and more.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Emerson HS Music Teacher Who Fought In Korean War Found Dead Outside Westwood Home Emerson HS Music Teacher Who Fought In Korean War Found Dead Outside Westwood Home
Emerson HS Music Teacher Who Fought In Korean War Found Dead Outside Westwood Home A private cremation was planned this weekend for a popular retired Emerson High School music teacher and Korean War veteran whose body was found outside his Westwood apartment. Daniel Ludovici, 84, apparently was headed to the bathroom before dawn Monday when he either tripped or suffered a medical episode and went crashing through a window at the Coventry Square Apartments off Charles Street across Old Hook Road from Pascack Valley Medical Center, authorities said. The U.S. Army veteran was pronounced dead soon after. His apartment door was locked and there was no sign of foul play, poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
Bergen County Teens Fight To Keep Madison Church Music Director In Classroom Bergen County Teens Fight To Keep Madison Church Music Director In Classroom
Bergen County Teens Fight To Keep Madison Church Music Director In 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 -- a music director a the Presbyterian Church of Madison --  would not be returning to the high school for the 2019-20 year, many students and parents were heartbroken. More than 600 signatures were garnered on a Change.o…

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by Cecilia Levine