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Pat Angarano April 26, 2013 at 11:22 am
This is an outrage! For something so important why are there only 6 people at this meeting? The…Read More general public has been systematically left out of this process which is not legal. Other surrounding towns had access to the original superintendent’s budget early in March. This way they can actually see what has been cut in a comparison with the adopted budget. We are seeing the budget once it has been adopted. Not fair. This is our money. This will cause residents to have to move out of our town. If we are going to spend this kind of money shouldn’t we be able to take part in the creation of the budget? Get out on May 21st and vote. Let this school board know we are watching and stop them from doing these things in private with only a selected few invited. Fight for your rights!
TTH April 12, 2013 at 08:02 pm
I heard he's handing out free cigars to all the women that show up!!!
Team Dawg April 5, 2013 at 08:38 pm
We at Team Dawg author children's books and present character education and anti bullying workshops…Read More in Elementary Schools . The basis of everything we teach is the importance of making a difference in our communities and schools, of being an Everyday Hero. Children need positive role models. There is no better example of one than Ms. Ahearn. Thank you for all you do! You are a true Team Dawg Everyday Hero!
Lanning Taliaferro (Editor) March 20, 2013 at 01:33 pm
How true. It was an inspiring event and I was honored to be one of the judges of the Demo…Read More Competition!
Team Dawg March 20, 2013 at 01:02 pm
There is nothing better than a community coming together for a great cause. Besides the obvious…Read More benefits of the event, it is equally important to note that things like this serve as great experience to younger children in helping them to become role models and Everyday Heroes in their own schools and communities. Team Dawg thanks and applauds all involved!
Laura CS March 26, 2013 at 04:18 pm
Both my kids still remember the lessons learned from this Trike-a-thon with Bikewell Bear and the…Read More t-shirts they earned from the fundraising. It makes them (and their parents) feel good about what they're doing not only for themselves but for others. Thanks, St. Paul's, for keeping up this annual event!
Pastor Jim O'Hanlon March 26, 2013 at 02:16 pm
Children learn compassion by our example and by their own practice and reinforcement.
Team Dawg March 20, 2013 at 01:06 pm
This is the perfect example of how we as communities can come together for a great cause. It is also…Read More the perfect way to involve young children and model for them what it means to be an Everyday hero in their own schools and communities. They need to know that at any age they can make a positive difference. It is what we at Team Dawg teach and promote in our books and workshops. We need more events like this! Great job! Team Dawg thanks you!
Dr John March 11, 2013 at 11:07 am
I am a long time resident of Harrison and although I have no children in school I am a tax payer and…Read More would be interested in the budget process of the HCSD. I did not know the budget sessions had started and since there was a small audience there may be others not aware that the budget process began. Doesn't the law require the school to post these meetings in obvious places not just on their web site? I see other school districts place invitations in several publications inviting the public to participate. Is this an oversite or is this intentional in Harrison Schools to keep only certain people invovled?
Latino U College Access March 1, 2013 at 04:20 am
We thank you for your comment Teleman. As a nonprofit organization we are limited by how much we…Read More can do. The mission of our organization is to help Latino students attain a college education. However, We welcome all participants and our handouts are in English and Spanish. Most Latino HS students prefer to speak English but their parents have limited English skills. We share information in Spanish so that parents can clearly understand the details and specifics of this important topic and are able to help their children fulfill their college goals. I hope you can see the positive results that can come from this and for the future of our community...whether hispanic or non-hispanic. thank you.
R Rice March 2, 2013 at 03:17 pm
Gail, I agree it is a rather unusual place to see this particular metaphor, but describing the…Read More school or police response as within "their silo," pretty clearly acknowledges both entities endeavoring to address the problem from their own isolated vantage point without any outside help. A silo is "literally" an air-tight tower that holds / protects a commodity (some type of grain) from the elements. Schools and police department have been "at odds" over issues such as crime reporting, and heavy- handedness, and have at times demonstrated a lack of cooperation in areas, that affect both entities that have existed and do exist within many communities.
Bratton's remarks which do not acknowledge the actual author (for whatever reason) are really just segments of the original ideas of James Q. Wilson - a criminologist who wrote about "pro-active" policing in the later part of last Century, and who is widely regarded as the originator of "community policing" as a concept. Mr. Wilson espouses in one of his better known essays (see; "Broken Windows") co-operation between civilians and police as exponentially more effective than police given their myriad limitations, in preventing crime, rather than reacting to it.
As for "litany," again I guess you'd chalk it up to someone possibly not doing a real good job at proof-reading a public address, because they don't do it often...
gail burlakoff February 28, 2013 at 01:53 pm
Please help me understand the use here of the word "silo." It appears early in the…Read More article:
"School administrators cannot solve the problem of school safety in their silo," he said. "Police cannot solve it in their silo. Fire and emergency response people cannot solve it in theirs and the parents of the children that we are all obligated to protect cannot do it on their own.”
and again, at the end: "Bratton added that avoiding silos between people who are involved can be a way of stopping a witch-hunt situation."
To me, a "silo" is a storage structure on a farm, usually for grain of some sort. Webster's says it's a trench or a tall cylindrical structure used for storing silage. Please explain the meaning of the word in this article--a new definition?
Thanks.
I'm also startled by the inventive use of the word "litany," in "along with a litany of experts"!
joshua tanner February 3, 2013 at 06:31 pm
I saw Rays mom at a West Point game. She was wearing a Rutgers football helmet and quite a…Read More firecracker.
Lisa Buchman (Editor) January 29, 2013 at 06:03 pm
Wow! That is commitment. It sounds like robotics is the right mix of educational/hands-on fun that…Read More really engages kids.
Antonia Houston January 29, 2013 at 02:11 pm
Actually the "TechnoChix" Girl Scout team only meets in the Girl Scout Office in…Read More Pleasantville. The 10 girls come from 3 counties (Westchester, Putman, and Dutchess) 10 different towns, and attend schools in 2 states. Some belong to troops, but most are independent Girl Scouts (Juliettes.) Some girls have to be driven as much as an hour each way for practice every Sunday afternoon.
Anne Iacobuzio January 27, 2013 at 03:29 pm
I understand what you mean. Some teenagers do a trivial volunteer jobs while falsely thinking…Read More they're saving the world.
Participation in Archbishop Stepinac collections isn't worthy enough to impress college admission offices. Instead, Archbishop Stepinac is planting little seeds of thoughtfulness in their students. The ongoing participation of the boys, whether it's volunteering and collection for Hurricane Sandy, or for the Midnight Runs for the homeless, or their annual Christmas toy collections, reinforces this thoughtfulness.
It also teachers Archbishop Stepinac student body to work together. The students have a shared identity which reinforces their religion. It is a win-win for everyone.
Paul Rode January 26, 2013 at 03:12 am
It seems to me they chose to do this, and I wish more people would volunteer as these students did…Read More to help the less fortunate out there. It is a pleasure to admire preening they do as a result of this work. I guess it is true that no kind deed goes unpunished.
Brian Goudie January 25, 2013 at 12:22 pm
When is someone going to have the courage to stand up and point out how incredibly dishonest this…Read More kind of moral preening is. People of solid character don't need to be told to volunteer by their communites nor by college admissions offices. The whole concept has been corrupted by Nanny State thinking and maudlin collectivist sentiment. It is becoming an explicit assault on the inelucatble inmportance of individual achievement.
Adam January 26, 2013 at 01:09 am
Babs, forget your meds again, sweetie? It is NOT the Dems who are the nazis. We won the election.…Read More We are coming for the teabillys come 2014. SWALLOW THAT BITTER PIL,L you silly woman. It is the teabagger, teabilly, necons who are the nazis. You small minded,unfortunate, uninformed, fox news watchinging, silly girl.
Lauren Fales January 30, 2013 at 08:56 pm
When was the new bond issue passed? That was certainly a lot of money? Now there is another budget…Read More problem.
Lisa Buchman (Editor) January 24, 2013 at 04:11 pm
What's important to you this budget season? Anyone planning on attending tonight's forum to voice…Read More concerns?
Aidan January 21, 2013 at 10:04 pm
We have no discipline any longer. "Hard work" is nothing more than two four-letter words…Read More stitched together. Consequences have been replaced with "root causes" by alibi manufacturers. Achievement is now a symbol of some perceived advantage rather than diligence and responsibility. And this slop is now aided and abetted by institutions that once upon a time produced doers rather than whiners.
We are the new Rome ... and on the same sluice to our own collapse.
sayitsnotsojack January 21, 2013 at 08:01 pm
Once America taught education very different from today. Our country became great with a lot of old…Read More way teaching, America became the greatest industrialized country in the world, with a quality of living that was first in the world. We went to the moon with old math, low powered computers, and became the land of opportunity. Now we have powerful computers, teach children must feel good about everything, little to no discipline, new math, new English, little arts and music, hardly any history being taught, sports are everything, multimillion dollar football fields, not enough money for text books, paper, pencils, but enough money to provide hundreds of thousand dollar salaries to administrators and teachers. Our standard of teaching is the test, and much too often the children were and are not able to pass that. Only when there is real accountability and high standards that must be met or the people responsible will no longer be in the field will we see a marked increase in the level of education.
Suzanne February 4, 2013 at 06:13 am
You haven't got a clue about what teachers have to deal with. They need that union to represent them…Read More when some thug hits them ( happened to a friend of mine, not a millionaire either). And, Stuy guy is right. You don't hve any experience with George. He was outspent 3:1. People who knew him came out to get him elected because he is contstiuent driven. You just keep spewing that Drudge-Hannity-Limpbaugh stuff. Cuomo is no lefty, I think he's a closet REpub. Show the numbers. The idea that your taxes are all about teaachers is lame. It is Albany's unfunded mandates, a ridiculous tax stucture. You a Millionaire? Coumo and the Repub Senate sunset the Millionaire's Surcharge. That money would help out right about now -- 4.5 BILLION/ YEAR. There's a lot wrong in Albany. George will work hard and won't rely on buzz-word-bumper-sticker BS to do it.
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