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NYC school buses arrive too late, too early or not at all, parents say
NEW YORK — Many New York City Public Schools parents and students say city school buses are often arriving too early, too late or not at all.Representatives of the Department of Education's Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT) testified in a City Council hearing Monday."Students living in Brooklyn, going to school in Manhattan. Has to be on the bus by 6, but gets to school every day at 8:20," Council Member Rita Joseph said."We try to keep interborough transportation, as you're mentioning, to two hours," said Glenn Risbrook, executive director of OPT.Student cut from bus route, offered ride-share program, family saysThat...
Football: Bayonne Beats Clifton, 27-7
CLIFTON, NJ – Chance Fischer rushed for two touchdowns and Nico Sampson Jr. passed for two touchdowns to lead Bayonne to a 27-7 football victory over Clifton on Friday night.Fischer rushed for 167 yards on 18 carries for Bayonne (3-2), which led, 13-7, at halftime.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERSampson completed 11 of 16 passes for 114 yards with TD passes to Jared Edwards and Caleb Bazille. Daryl Smith caught three passes for 40 yards in the win.Bayonne, winners of three straight games, will host Newark East Side on Friday night. For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
Memorial topples Ferris - Football recap
After ending a 35-game losing streak last week with a last-second, 34-32, victory over Kearny, Ferris tried to win two games in a row for the first time since 2012 when it defeated Kearny (42-21) and Marist (31-12) in consecutive games, but fell short, falling 34-12 to Memorial in Jersey City.
DeMasi, Verona rally past Hoboken - Football recap
Connor DeMasi’s 38-yard TD pass to Jayden Nigro with 8:50 remaining put Verona in front for good as it defeated Hoboken, 26-19, at Louis M. Taglieri Jr. Stadium in Hoboken. Just 1:49 later, Verona (5-1) added to the lead when JP Alfano returned a fumble 35 yards for a TD.
HS Football: Wood-Ridge Defeats Bogota, 21-7
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ – Nobody will compare Wood-Ridge football’s Thursday night win over Bogota with last week’s triple overtime. But, even though Wood-Ridge head coach admitted that an ugly win is better than a well-played loss, he was not happy with his team’s play in their 21-7 win over the Bucs in a NJIC Patriot League game. “We didn’t come out ready to play,” said head coach Joe Cutrona. “But we will get them ready to play the winner of Rutherford- Pompton Lakes, and we will go from there.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERMaybe...
US school-entry vaccination rates fall as exemptions keep rising
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Wednesday. The share of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 3.3%, up from 3% the year before. Meanwhile, 92.7% of...
NYC public schools are closed Thursday and Friday: Here’s what you need to know
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City public school students will have their first set of days off on Thursday and Friday. All public school students in New York City have two days off this week in observance of a Jewish holiday, according to the school calendar. Schools are...
Girls Soccer: Results, recaps & photos for Friday, Oct. 4
Morristown-Beard (4-4) at Morris Catholic (5-5-1), 4:30pm. Perth Amboy Magnet (0-4) at Pennsauken Tech (1-7), 4pm. Asbury Park (0-7) at Middletown North (6-3), 3:45pm. Moorestown Friends (2-8) at Burlington Township (6-5), 3:45pm. Lindenwold (1-8-1) at Florence (2-7), 3:45pm. Bordentown (2-8) at Medford Tech (0-7-1), 3:45pm. Thrive Charter (0-5) at New...
Smith Is a Strong Leader For The Glen Rock Boys Cross Country Team
GLEN ROCK, NJ - Sometimes, though it doesn’t happen all that often, the embodiment of all the positive qualities that a high school sports coach may ask for in the leadership department on the roster can be found within the character of one student-athlete.Well, that’s exactly the case for the Glen Rock High School boys cross-country program with 2024 senior captain Devin Smith. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER“Devin has been a contributing varsity racer since he was a freshman,’’ Glen Rock head coach Anthony Judilla said. “He is always punctual, positive and leads by example....
Phillipsburg Shows Strength on Defense and More with Win Over West Orange
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The much maligned Phillipsburg High School defense held its own and then some, and senior quarterback Jett Genovese gave the Staeliners a 21-7 lead with a three-run score midway through the final quarter as P’burg defeated host West Orange, 21-14, in a non-conference football game on Friday night at Suriano Stadium.A week after allowing 383 yards in back-to-back games, Phillipsburg’s defense held an explosive West Orange (4-2) team to 281 yards of total offense in 60 plays In the Mountaineers’ four wins this season they’ve outscored its opponents by a 160-17 marginCLICK HERE...
Remembering a Great High School Wrestling Rivalry Between Bloomfield's Rami Ratel and Belleville's Anthony Conte
When he was in grade school, Joe Dubuque recalls going to a Bloomfield vs Belleville wrestling match, with one of his buddies, Joe Schoch, to see some intense wrestling, especially when Anthony Conte of Belleville would step onto the mat to face Rami Ratel.“My friend, Joe Schoch, was a big Rami Ratel fan. and I was a Conte fan,” said Dubuque, today the head wrestling coach at Princeton University, following a successful stint as an assistant coach at Hofstra, the University of Indiana, and then Princeton. (Dubuque, of course, had an incredible wrestling career himself, winning two NJSIAA championships at Glen Ridge High and a pair of NCAA...
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