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In support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Francesca Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta in Glen Rock and Francesca Pizza & Pasta in Elmwood Park recently presented checks to support the Ridgewood YMCA's Living Strong, Living Well cancer patient and survivor program.

HACKENSACK - School board officials are looking to get residents' input on the qualities they would like to see in a new superintendent to lead the school district since the acting superinten¬dent plans to retire.

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Little Ferry Board of Education members Nicholas Fytros, Michelle Brattoli, and Frank Mele are running unopposed for their seats in the Nov. 8 election.

LEONIA - It is known as the “worst disease you’ve never heard of” but on Oct. 26, the Leonia High School girls volleyball team made sure every attendee at their senior night knew what “dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa” was and the effect it has had on an eight-month-old girl named Makenzie Cadmus.

EDGEWATER €“ After the successful launch of a sixth-grade 1:1 Chromebook initiative earlier this year, the Eleanor Van Gelder School will expand a modified version of the program to its fifth-graders this January.

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FORT LEE €“ Frustrated by ever rising health care premiums and the increasing contributions expected of districts and its employees, the Board of Education and the Fort Lee Education Association (FLEA) have banded together to urge the governor and the Department of Education to reexamine a 2011 pension and benefit reform law they say is unfair and unsustainable.

Council President Kenneth Corcoran and Councilman Peter Colao are up for re-election on Nov. 8 and are running unopposed for two council seats.