CLOSING THE GENDER GAP
ALPINE • CLOSTER • CRESSKILL • DEMAREST • ENGLEWOOD • ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS • HARRINGTON PARK HAWORTH • NORTHVALE • NORWOOD • OLD TAPPAN • ROCKLEIGH • TENAFLY
PUSH FOR Russell C. Major Liberty School eyed; city seen as ʻa natural hubʼin county
Imagine a public high school for the arts serving all of Bergen County. The Advisors & Supporters, a grassroots group in Englewood, is exploring the possibility of developing a public high school for the arts in the 115-year-old Russell C. Major Liberty School, an architecturally distinguished building located on the historic Five Corners site in the cityʼs downtown district. The group launched a website, LibertySchoolfortheArts.org, to imagine this vision, featuring videos with exclusive interviews of leading performers and artists, such as Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Russell Malone, actor and teaching artist Andrea L. Patterson, Broadway actor Roberta Eichenberger, and others discussing how the arts shaped their lives and can develop another generation.
Englewood: A Community of Educators and Artists According to a March 22 press statement from The Advisors & Supporters, the City of Englewood is well-positioned to be the home of a public arts high school. “The schoolʼs namesake, Russell Cameron Major, was a revered community leader in Englewood. He was a teacher and coach, whose legacy would con-
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APRIL 2022
LIFELONG LEARNING
ENGLEWOOD
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
Angelbots and Anjoules, Academy of the Holy Angelsʼ varsity and JV robotics teams, are on the road to inspire even younger women attending the new AHA Middle School.
NORTHERN VALLEY
JOHNSON
Northvale Public School students pay studies forward
AIMS TO BUILD ON
WEINBERG’S
Green energy, Main Street recovery priorities
LEGACY
BY HILLARY VIDERS FOR NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS
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Northvale Public School students and faculty, and farm workers from Closter Farm & Livestock Co., on March 16. The students volunteered to help get the farm ready for spring — and report it was a field trip to remember.
BY JOHN SNYDER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS HE SEVENTH-GRADE
students of Northvale Public School, lately learning about sustainability and the human impact on our environment, nurtured their studies at Closter Farm and Livestock Co., a regenerative
organic farm on Closter Dock Road in Closter. The farm provided the students — a force of 62 — with hands-on experiences in regenerative agriculture, which is a conservation approach to food and farming systems. The kids worked alongside the farmers to prepare the ground and help plant the crops for the spring
NORTHVALE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT PHOTOS
season. According to a report filed for us by Gabriella Marinuzzi and Desi Malafis, two of the
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Gordon M. Johnson (DBergen), who grew up in Englewood, served at-large on the city council, and served as 37th Legislative District Assemblyman since 2002, was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in 2021. To get there, heʼd fended off fellow Assembly member Valerie Vainieri Huttle in the primary and succeeded veteran Sen. Loretta Weinberg, who retired. Johnson, who keeps his district office in Teaneck, has the distinction of being the first Black state senator in Bergen County, the stateʼs most populous. The former law enforcement officer — and a highly decorated U.S. Army Reservemajor — brings to the job a robust legislative track record that includes increasing access to education for New Jersey students, veterans, and DREAMers. Nearly 100 days into his
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VOTING TECHNOLOGY
B ck in time...
Tenafly High School seniors Dylan Weiss, Jacob Wolmer present at a top STEM conference.
Spring in Alpine was just in blush in Kristin Beuscher’s photo visit to Huyler’s Landing on the Palisades, April 1968.
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