November Candidates Announced, HS Program Highlighted by MIT, Teachers of the Year Top Weekly News

New Milford Incumbents Challenged by New Faces for Council Election

Sitting Councilmen Dominic Colucci and Diego Robalino have filed to seek reelection this November against Democratic challengers Ira Grotsky and Thea Sirocchi-Hurley.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently spoke to NMHS Principal Eric Sheninger on the school's use of OpenCourseWare

The Greek philospher Socrates once said that "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel," and New Milford schools are gifted with some of the brightest flames as the district honored its four Teachers of the Year and District Teacher of the Year this week.

This year's honores are Nora Aivers (NMHS), Stacey Calise (Gibbs), Pamela Krause (DEOMS) and Dora Oliviero (Berkley). Oliviero was also named District Teacher of the Year.

Following an eight-hour flight, 12 New Milford High School students arrived in Berlin, Germany in their first stop of their Eastern European Holocaust Education Trip. The students, accompanied by Colleen Tambuscio will spend two weeks visiting a variety of historical locations as part of the Holocaust Education Program.

Throughout their two-week trip, students will blog about their adventures for friends, family and the entire New Milford community at hst10.blogspot.com.

After over 30 regular and special meetings before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the hearings for the proposed development of the 13-acre United Water property is nearing a close. Development attorney Andy DelVecchio called two of his three final experts last week and is expected to conclude his presentation on April 9.

With the United Water hearings at the Zoning Board of Adjustment winding down, Vice-Chairman Ron Stokes stepped down late last week from the dais to avoid any potential "perceivable conflict".

After winning a Grammy award for song of the year with his band fun., New Milford native Jack Antonoff was recently granted the key to Woodcliff Lake during a ceremony at the Tice Senior Center, according to a northjersey.com report.

Nearly 40 applications were filed this week to launch new charter schools, including two in Bergen County, according to a report onNJSpotlight.com. 

The two Bergen schools are seeking permission to open in Bergenfield and Hackensack, the report said. 

The proposed Edessa Charter School would draw students from New Milford, Dumont, Paramus, Bergenfield, River Edge and Oradell, according to the state education department. It would focus on 60 K-2 students, but was projected to grow to 120 K-5 students. 

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