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| | Architect makes solar panel presentation
10/15/2008
The installation of solar panels that would generate electricity for the Park Ridge School District and have the potential to not only reduce energy costs but generate revenue was discussed at the Monday, Oct. 13 board of education meeting.
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 | Oct. 18 - a true 'Homecoming'
10/13/2008
On Saturday, Oct. 18, the Park Ridge Owls football team will host Cresskill. The game starts at 1:30 p.m. but the Homecoming festivities start earlier.
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 | Homecoming 2008 has deeper meaning
10/07/2008
The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the first public school in Park Ridge has inspired many to mark the historic event.
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| | Pascack Panda-monium Oct. 18
10/01/2008
The Pascack Pi-oneers Robotics team will host “Pascack Panda-monium” on Saturday, Oct. 18 at Pascack Hills High School from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free for spectators.
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 | School spirit reaches new heights
09/23/2008
Last week was “Spirit Week” at Park Ridge High that culminated in a pep rally on Friday, the eve of the football team’s first game of the season on Saturday at Cresskill.
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| | Robotics team to host event
09/15/2008
The Pascack Pi-oneers Robotics Team has amassed an impressive list of honors since its founding in 2004.
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| | PTA recognized for excellence
09/12/2008
For the second time, the Parent-Teacher Association of the River Vale School District has earned national recognition from the National PTA.
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 | Brittany Hines-Hill wins international vocal competition
09/10/2008
On Aug. 14, Brittany Hines-Hill placed first in the Meistersing Opera Competition held in Graz, Austria.
Hines-Hill, 22, a senior at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Lawrenceville, participated in the American Institute of Musical Studies
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 | Patricia Molloy is new principal
09/02/2008
Veteran educator Patricia Molloy has been appointed principal of Immaculate Heart Academy by the Archdiocese of Newark.
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| | Will school district go green?
09/02/2008
School districts and businesses could benefit from a complex and relatively new plan derived from the state's commitment to alternative power strategies: the use of solar panels.
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| | McLouis recipients are announced
09/02/2008
Louis Arvanitis, the founder of the McLouis Charitable Fund, has announced the Class of 2008 recipients of $500 scholarship awards.
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| | Students 'play the market' and win
07/30/2008
Two teams from the River Vale School district recently received awards for their participation in the Foundation for Investor Education's 2008 Stock Market Game.
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| | Understanding poetry
07/22/2008
How likely is it that third- and fourth-graders would enjoy learning about and writing poetry? What about reading their original work at a school assembly?
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 | Back to school... way back
07/16/2008
Kindergarten Room 101 at Montvale's Memorial School holds many happy memories for teacher Arline Frankel. Each June, Frankel invites her former students to visit her classroom once again.
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 | Back to School Day for retirees
07/16/2008
Back to School Day at Pascack Hills drew many back to their professional alma mater. After a brief greeting by their hosts, they took tours led by Hills students.
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 | Loose change and leftover lunch money
07/08/2008
When Rachel Steinberg’s kindergarten teacher at Jesse F. George School asked the class to bring something in for “show and teach,” Rachel knew exactly what she wanted to share with her classmates: the concept of charity.
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 | Call Us Clowns recognizes Wesley Laga
07/08/2008
Call Us Clowns isn't fooling around when it comes to encouraging young people to continue their education in the performing arts.
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| | Scholarship winners announced
07/08/2008
Among the scholarships awarded at Senior Awards Night for the Westwood Regional High School Class of 2008 were two sponsored by the GFWC/NJSFWC The Contemporary Woman’s Club of Washington Township. Each received a $1,000 scholarship.
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| | Board setting a course for the future
06/24/2008
Before considering another multi-million dollar referendum, the Park Ridge Board of Education will take time to analyze what is best for the education of the students, without regard, initially, for the physical space needed to provide it.
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 | New principal welcomed
06/24/2008
Patricia Bucci will become the principal of Park Ridge High School on July 1.
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 | Students’ global concern
06/17/2008
When the students of Joan Merwede’s third-grade class learned that the children of Uganda were so poor that they could not afford toothbrushes they set out to provide them with help.
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 | Mallard ‘Moving day’
06/17/2008
For the third year in a row, a mallard mother chose an enclosed flowerbed at Memorial School as her preferred nesting spot. Last week, eight downy, chirping ducklings hatched.
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| | Students to form ‘new government’ this summer
06/17/2008
The seven Emerson High School students selected to attend the American Legion Boys and Girls State programs this summer will, along with fellow students from across the state, create a state government modeled on New Jersey.
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 | Kimberly Green earns state scholarship
06/17/2008
Kimberly Green was selected as one of only 25 students from across the state to receive the Student Leadership Award that includes a $2,500 scholarship.
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| | Board of Ed., developer, trading [open] spaces
06/11/2008
The River Vale Board of Education is nearing the final phase of land swap negotiations with Pascack Hills Properties, LLC, a Woodcliff Lake-based developer.
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| | Class of 2008 valedictorians
06/11/2008
Fifty valedictorians from Bergen County public schools were honored at the 25th Annual Valedictorian Recognition Breakfast, hosted by the Bergen County Coalition of School Administrators (BCCSA) and co-sponsored by The Record and Cablevision.
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 | Senior dedicates his time to the community
06/04/2008
Brian Walters dedication to others in community service that separates him from the crowd of seniors he joined in cap and gown at graduation on May 25 at Saint Joseph Regional High School.
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| | New high school principal appointed
06/04/2008
Park Ridge High School will have a new principal as of July 1 - Patricia Bucci, currently assistant principal at Somerville High School.
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| | Exploring the world of business
06/04/2008
Free market economics might seem like an unappealing, even boring, topic for sixth-graders. Gifted and talented middle-schoolers are usually open to exploring ideas and concepts that are new to them, but free market economics?
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 | Lisa Sileo is student council rep on BOE
05/28/2008
When she was in seventh grade, Lisa Sileo ran for a place on the student council and lost. She ran again in eighth grade and lost. Neither defeat deterred her from going to meetings and joining committees at Park Ridge Middle School.
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 | School community benefits from 'Pride'
05/28/2008
"Meadowbrook Pride," a program developed by Principal Richard Spirito, encourages students to act respectfully toward friends, fellow students and school personnel.
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 | "Puppy mills" are target of campaign
05/20/2008
Two seventh-graders at Woodcliff Middle School have begun a campaign to help end the inhumane treatment of dogs perpetrated at "puppy mills."
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| | New parking plan gets four-week test run
05/14/2008
In light of recommendations made by the borough engineer, the Montvale Mayor and Council voted unanimously last Tuesday to temporarily reconfigure parking regulations on Edgren Way and Hilton Place with hopes of alleviating traffic around Fieldstone Middl
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| | Bennett Kirschner is state winner
05/14/2008
Bennett Kirshner of Montvale is one of four statewide winners of the New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest.
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| | No cuts proposed despite failed budget
05/13/2008
The failure of Hillsdale’s school budget proposals at the polls on April 15 led many to believe that cuts would have to be made to the public schools.
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| | Bomb threat redux
05/13/2008
Exactly one year to the day after the first of two bomb threats was discovered at Roberge Elementary School in River Vale, the first of two similar threats was discovered at Holdrum Middle School last week.
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 | New president elected; delegates appointed
05/13/2008
In addition to the routine appointments made at board re-organization meetings – the school physician, auditor, affirmative action officer, etc. – a new president was elected when the Park Ridge Board of Education met on May 5.
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| | Board’s choice for principal declines; interim is option
05/13/2008
The one acceptable candidate out of eight finalists for the position of principal at Park Ridge High has declined the district’s offer in favor of one from the district where he is currently employed.
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 | Young artists learn about the masters
05/13/2008
While schools across the state search for ways to trim costs and often cut funding for the performing and visual arts, St. John’s has found a way to enhance the curriculum, recognizing the importance of the arts in education. And it’s free.
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 | Amy Igel is Fulbright Scholar; will visit Japan
05/13/2008
Life is a circle, or so the saying goes. Sometimes, people wind up where they started from - years older and richer in experience - but back to where they started, nevertheless. That's been Amy Igel's experience.
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