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SPRING VALLEY - East Ramapo district s renown band played, dignitaries gathered and green-and-yellow streamers were snipped during a ribbon-cutting for a new athletic fitness center at Ramapo High. The center, with 4,400 square feet of functional instruction space, demonstrated the district s and community s investment in equitable access, said interim Superintendent Raymond Giamartino. The center had been years in the planning, officials said, and was part of the district s wellness initiatives. Officials said the project cost around $100,000 in this budget year and was funded partially through a Creating Healthy Schools and Communities grant in partnership with Rockland County Department of Health. U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, a Spring Valley High School graduate, noted that his mother was a Gryphon, a graduate of RHS. He lauded the district s investment in its physical education plan, even amid the financial challenges that have hamstrung all school districts amid ....
RIDGEWOOD The Board of Education approved the appointment of Thomas Gorman as superintendent of the 5,600-student school district at its meeting Monday. The high school principal has been serving as interim superintendent since Dec. 11, following the retirement of Daniel Fishbein after 12 years as its chief. Gorman previously served as high school principal for eight years. Dr. Gorman has demonstrated outstanding leadership and a progressive vision, said Board of Education President Michael Lembo. Dr. Gorman is both a Ridgewood High School graduate and a long-standing member of this community who understands the value of a Ridgewood education and the strong connections between the district and community. ....
“They see us as disposable”: New York Amazon delivery driver speaks out While Amazon continues to consolidate its domination of online retail, the e-commerce giant has also sought to cut costs by expanding aggressively into the shipping sector, particularly last-mile delivery. Almost overnight, Amazon has built up a massive delivery network which now accounts for two-thirds of its own packages. By next year, analysts project that its parcel volume will overtake traditional logistics firms like UPS and Fedex. One of the ways which Amazon has rapidly built out its network is by franchising out local deliveries to third-party contractors, which it began offering in 2018. Today, a large proportion of Amazon delivery drivers are not Amazon employees, but employees of these local contractors. ....
Oakland, N.J.: A Rustic Version of Suburbia, 30 Miles From Midtown Less pricey than surrounding areas of Bergen County, the borough has a secluded feeling, but highways make it accessible to the city. By Jay Levin March 3, 2021 On the first night in their new home in Oakland, in northern New Jersey, the Kumar family watched deer cross their backyard, leaving hoof prints in the snow. Prem Kumar said it was the first time he had ever seen deer outside of a petting zoo. He knew he wasn’t in Queens anymore. “It’s a readjustment, but nothing we’re not happy about,” Mr. Kumar, 35, a civil engineer, said of the move to the wide-open borough of 13,000 in westernmost Bergen County. ....
NorthJersey.com Chances are, if your name is not Dante, you are not going to get a personal tour of hell. But one place can come close. The subway is dark. It s below ground. It s full of cacophonous noises and weird smells. And apologies to the MTA it can feel like a scary environment. There is danger: of third rails, open trenches, deranged people. The perfect place for a horror yarn, in fact. Every once in a while the subway stops, and it s spooky, said Robert Smithline, a Fair Lawn resident who is the writer, director and co-producer of new mystery-horror series, The Hunter s Anthology, available starting Friday through Amazon Prime. It s set on a subway. ....