Thursday, February 21, 2013
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, schools coping with upgrading security without going over the 2 percent cap may get relief from pending legislation.
In the wake of Newtown, schools everywhere are performing security audits and collaborating with local law enforcement to implement new security intitiatives. At last week's Town Hall meeting, Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul and the Board of Education talked about amped up security within the Fort Lee Schools and confirmed that they are in the process of reviewing security plans within each school with the intent of putting new measures into place. In addressing the concerns of parents who want a more visible police presence at the schools, Bendul said, "We are increasing our footprint within the district" by having a more visible police presence in and around the schools. However, the question being asked by many Superintendents is how…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Post-Newtown, many towns are passing resolutions supporting federal legislation regarding the banning of assault weapons. What's your position?
Post-Newtown, municipalities are passing resolutions supporting the banning of assault weapons and the sale of large-capacity magazines to private citizens. With federal legislation on gun control pending, Fort Lee is unique in that it has a native who has spent much of his professional career immersed in gun control. Robert Tessaro, the nephew of former Fort Lee Police Chief Thomas Tessaro and the son of former Municipal Court Judge Robert T. Tessaro, was among a group of Fort Lee High School students at the time who started a petition supporting the proposed ban on assault weapons. Tessaro is now the president and founder of Safe School Technologies and a recognized expert on youth violence prevention. He is the former Director of Law …
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Families, friends of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School usher team onto field.
NORTH JERSEY — More than 200 students from Sandy Hook Elementary School were among 400 people from Newtown, Conn., who formed a tunnel for New York Giants players to run through as they took the field Sunday for their final home game of the 2012 season. A little more than two weeks after a 20-year-old gunman stormed into the Connecticut elementary school and killed 26 people, including 20 children, families, classmates and neighbors of the dead were bused to MetLife Stadium and given tickets to the contest by the Giants. The group of Newtown residents received high-fives and handshakes from the athletes as they entered the field. The students and their families then made a ring around the field, holding hands with Giants and Philadelphia …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Trained counselors are available to help parents/educators answer questions children have over what happened in Newtown, Conn.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
West Bergen Mental Healthcare in Ridgewood is offering free counseling services to following the tragic school shooting on Friday in Newtown, Conn. "We know some parents, teachers and/or community leaders may have questions about how to approach the situation and help children deal with their feelings and concerns as the days and weeks go on," the organization said in a statement. People can speak with trained child/adolescent therapists and other staff members by telephone. "Designated staff from the West Bergen Center for Children and Youth are available to answer your questions, help parents and educators who may have questions about behaviors they may be seeing and/or help give techniques/suggestions on how best to handle this very sad…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The former Director of Law Enforcement Relations for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, who recently moved back to Fort Lee from Washington, speaks out in light of Newtown, Conn. school shooting.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Fort Lee resident Robert V. Tessaro remembers when in 1994 then Vice President Al Gore visited Fort Lee High School. Tessaro, the nephew of former Fort Lee Police Chief Thomas Tessaro and the son of former Municipal Court Judge Robert T. Tessaro, was among a group of Fort Lee High School students at the time who started a petition supporting the proposed ban on assault weapons. “I guess it was very unique at the time for schools to be active in this that we actually got a visit from [Gore], who came to Fort Lee, praising the students for getting involved in that,” Tessaro said, adding, “That was really my first major experience learning about gun control laws … and how to get involved in making sure laws were passed on a national level.” …
Monday, December 17, 2012
The vigil took place Monday evening in Fort Lee’s Monument Park, where people read from scripture, prayed, offered words of comfort and shared personal stories in the wake of the tragic events of Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Dozens of Fort Lee residents joined local clergy and community leaders at Monument Park Monday for a candlelight vigil for the victims, family and community members of Newtown, Conn., where a school shooting Friday claimed the lives of 20 children—six- and seven-year-olds—and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Fort Lee resident Kathy Lee, the mother of a six-year-old boy, said her heart was broken, along with those of mothers everywhere, when she heard about what happened in Connecticut Friday, and that no words could possibly comfort the families of the victims. “But we are here for one reason only: to say that we are so sorry for their loss, and that we are so sad for their loss, and that we are crying with them,” Lee said. “Our…
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Dozens gathered at a Cedar Lane rally to call for stricter gun laws and an end to violence following elementary school shooting in Connecticut.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Residents rallied Saturday night in Teaneck to call for stricter gun control laws in the wake of a shooting rampage that left 20 children and six adults dead at a Connecticut elementary school. The crowd, organized quickly through the Internet and by the Ethical Culture Society, held candles and carried signs calling for tighter regulation of firearms and an end to gun violence. Teaneck resident Jim Norman said he hoped to continue holding rallies and push elected leaders to act. "We feel it is time to move from mourning to action," he said. "This is the first in this area of what we hope will be non-stop action until America comes to its senses." Norman, a parent who said he was brought to tears by the killings, called for restrictions…
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The vigil, which organizers say is for people all faiths—or none—takes place Monday at 7 p.m. in Fort Lee’s Monument Park.
A candlelight vigil in Fort Lee’s Monument Park will take place Monday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. The vigil is being held in light of the mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School dead. Touted by organizers as a “gathering to give and receive comfort in light of the Newtown shooting,” the Monument Park vigil will provide Fort Lee residents an opportunity to “share with neighbors,” pray or be silent. It will also include a “message from Fort Lee to Newtown,” according to a flyer being distributed around town, although the physical form that message will take remained unclear, as organizers scrambled to plan the vigil. “Our idea is simple,” said Rev. Allison Moore of Fort Lee’s…
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Jack B Goode
9:35 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
One thing Christie did when he got the Pension reform bill passed was to start funding the state pension fund which was about 75% short. Call him names and joke about his weight all you want, he gets things done and tells it like it is. You may not be able to put a price on bravery that protects the public while putting your own life at risk but the union negotiators do a pretty good job of … more ›