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Bullying makes students want to SCREAM
Students from Rutgers performance troupe teach about harassment in school BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — In observance of the Week of Respect, the SCREAM (Students Challenging Reality and Education Against Myths) Theatre from Rutgers University put on a skit about bullying at North Brunswick Township High School on Oct. 5. A short,…
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Residents concerned over Rt. 1 construction in Princeton
More than 700 people have signed an online petition BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The effects of a major traffic pattern change on Route 1 in West Windsor have brought some major headaches to South Brunswick. An experimental program to close jughandles and left turns off Route 1 north was implemented in…
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S.B. Senior Center breaks ground on expansion project
Screening room, table tennis, classrooms are expected BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Above left: Middlesex County Freeholder Carol Barrett Bellante (l) and Senior Advisory Council Chairwoman Eleanor Fenichel break ground on the Senior Center expansion in South Brunswick Oct. 4. Above: Councilman Charlie Carley speaks about the project. PHOTOS BY STELLA MORRISON A fter several…
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Area schools teach the new three R’s
Respect, responsibility, relationships are the mainstay of Bullying Prevention Month BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer October is a bad month for bullies. It’s National Bullying Prevention Month, and schools across the state are staging programs and initiatives to tackle a problem that affects more than half of their students during their academic careers. Students and…
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12,024 incidents of harassment, intimidation and bullying in N.J. in 2011
The new three R’s Tiff Roma (l-r), Isabella Olaguera, Aya Abdelaziz and Tess Cronin, of the Project Girl Performance Collective, act out a bullying scenario on Oct. 2 during an empowerment program presented as part of the Week of Respect at Red Bank Regional High School in Little Silver. JEFF GRANIT staff Some 1,100 students…
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Betty Jane Schulte
Mrs. Schulte, 78, of Fair Haven, died Sept. 30, 2012, in Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was a crossing guard for the Fair Haven school system. Surviving are her husband of 54 years, John F.; three sons, Gerald, and his wife, Patrice, of Oakhurst, Jeff, and his wife, Laura, of Pennsylvania and John, and…
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Frank J. Fierro
Mr. Fierro, 70, of Middletown, died Sept. 29, 2012, in New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City. He was a survivor of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He was predeceased by his parents, George and Filomena Fierro, and by a sister, Carol Fierro. Surviving are his wife of 48 years, Sixta; three sons, George P.,…
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Jose Ferreira Panarra
Mr. Panarra, 71, of Howell, died suddenly Sept. 15, 2012, while in Portugal. He was born and raised in Vila Boa Do Mondego, Provence Celerico da Beira, Portugal; lived in Brazil; and came to the U.S. in 1961. He was employed as a painter for General Motors, Linden, for more than 25 years, retiring in…
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John “Jack” Winter
Mr. Winter, 92, of Long Branch, died Sept. 30, 2012, in Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. His wife, Thelma, died in 1970. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Maureen Jo Winter; three granddaughters and their spouses, Vanessa and Christopher Spagnuola, Alison and Rafael Fernandez and…
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