Former special ed teacher/wrestling coach indicted on multiple charges related to criminal.
Former special ed teacher/wrestling coach indicted on multiple charges related to criminal sexual contact with a minor, filming adult victims
A former special education teacher at Sayreville Middle School and former wrestling coach at Union County College has been indicted on multiple charges involving his criminal sexual contact with a minor who was known to him and the surreptitious filming of several adult victims.
On April 22, John M. Denuto, 44, of Spotswood, was indicted on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first-, second-, and third-degree stemming from his filming and possession of child sexual exploitation material, as well as eight counts of invasion of privacy in the third-degree, six counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact in the third-degree, six counts of criminal sexual contact in the fourth-degree, two counts of witness tampering in the third-deg
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Raritan High School 215-pounder Mia Lazaurs stands with coach Christopher Villa after winning her first state championship on April 10 at Phillipsburg High School. PHOTO COURTESY OF RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING PROGRAM
Raritan High School senior Mia Lazaurs always said she was going to be a state wrestling champion. Even before New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association administrators sanctioned girls wrestling as a high school sport three years ago, Lazaurs was determined to outduel the boys on the mat and win a state title.
Lazaurs, who has been wrestling since she was in the sixth grade at the Hazlet Middle School, dreamed of being a state champion.
April 5, 2021 at 9:00 AM
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - Bridgewater-Raritan High School student Emily Lu has spent the weeks since the tragic murder of six Asian women at spas in Atlanta, Georgia, grieving and healing.
“The deaths of the six Asian women who I’ve never met before struck me very personally, hitting a place very close to home,” said Lu, a first generation Chinese-Taiwanese American student. “Although I did not know their names or stories, I have a feeling that their identities, as Asian American women, were not too different from those of my own family, as low income immigrants.”
To remember the victims of the tragedy in Atlanta and support the Asian American community in Bridgewater, Lu and several other local students organized a Stop Asian Hate rally at the Bridgewater municipal building April 3, with more than 200 people in attendance.
The Bridgewater Democratic Committee has endorsed Jill Gladstone, Jennifer Feigley and Saad Toor for three seats on the Township Council, to be filled at the November 2 General Election. Gladstone is a graduate of Tulane University with a B.S. in Psychology. She is a member of the Bridgewater-Raritan Regional Board of Education, having been elected[.]
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Assemblymember Jamel Holley (D-Union) made it formal yesterday: He’s primarying his former running mate, state Sen. Joe Cryan (D-Union).
Holley, who’s Black, put out an announcement video that portrays him in the mold of Martin Luther King, Jr., RFK (Sr.), John Lewis and Barack Obama. It made only glancing references to
the anti-vaccine conspiracy theories he’s spent the last couple years pushing (with some help by RFK Jr.), and none to the false theories he’s promoted about
“This candidacy for State Senate is not about me. It’s about the boy in Elizabeth whose parents came to this country to seek a better life and many of the same services and support I received when I was young,” Holley said in a statement.