Friday, December 21, 2012
School districts in the region respond to Connecticut massacre by reviewing safety procedures.
At 9:30 a.m. Friday, 26 bells were rung, one each for the lives taken in the hallways and classrooms of Sandy Hook Elementary School during the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn. The Friday before Christmas, typically a day reserved for holiday parties and cheer, marked a week since what has been labeled the second deadliest school shooting in America. Just days and even hours after the shooting, school districts in Morris and Somerset counties sprung into action, developing plans to communicate with parents and reaching out to police officers about how to make schools more safe. "Right now, the crucial thing for school boards to do is to look at the security procedures in place," said Frank Belluscio, communications director for the New …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A child and family therapist gives advice for how to help your children when they are grieving.
The surviving children of the Sandy Hook School shooting have lost beloved friends and teachers. Their parents will struggle in the weeks and months ahead to help them process their grief. It is always hard to watch a child suffer through loss, whether of a close relative, sibling, friend or pet. Lauren Hutchinson, LMFT, is a child and family therapist and parenting consultant with a practice in Bellevue, Wa. She said the range of symptoms a child may display when she or he is grieving is quite varied. Kids may want to talk about the source of grief a lot or not at all. They may have bouts of tears, difficulty sleeping and/or nightmares, unusual clinginess to adults, inability to concentrate and increased irritability or anger. It’s …
Monday, December 17, 2012
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg will ask Congress to approve a ban on ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds. Do you agree with his proposed bill?
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Monday, December 17, 2012
In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced plans to reintroduce high-capacity magazine ban legislation in the 113th Congress. Lautenberg’s bill, the Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, would prohibit the manufacture and sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds. It also would ban ammunition magazines that could be readily converted to accept more than 10 rounds. “In light of yet another horrific shooting tragedy, it is clearer than ever that there is no place in our communities for deadly high-capacity gun magazines and I will keep working to pass my bill to reinstate the ban on them,” Lautenberg said in a statement. “If we don't pass a high-capacity …
Schools chief says educators are ready to help grieving students.
Friday's tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., naturally lead citizens to think about local schools and the safety of students within them. The mass shooting, which left 20 youngsters and seven adults, including suspected shooter Adam Lanza, dead, certainly is on the minds of those working in the Parsippany-Troy Hills school district. "Each school held an moment of silence this morning," Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz told Patch early Monday. The loss will be commemorated again Tuesday at 7 p.m. when the Par-Troy Council of PTAs holds a candlelight vigil at Veterans Park to offer respects to the fallen of Newtown. Seitz said district professionals want to be of help to students having difficulty coping …
Event will be held Tuesday night at Veterans Park.
The Par-Troy Council of Parent-Teacher Associations will honor the memory of those lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Friday morning's deadly shooting in Connecticut. Parsippany residents are asked to gather Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Veterans Park off Route 46. Organizer Sandy Nussbaum Giercyk said the idea behind the event is to offer solace to those who are grieving and to pay respects to the fallen. "As the events of Friday unfolded it was horrific and gutwrenching to everyone," Giercyk told Patch. "I couldn't get past the fact it was kindergarten children. Innocent 6-year-olds. As a parent it was simply heartbreaking. "All you want to do is grab your kids and never leave home if even a kindergarten room isn't a safe place." With …
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4:29 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
It seems like a lot of folks buy assault type weapons in order to guard against an oppressive government. Just understand that in Iraq during the 1980's, 1990's and currently, just about everybody had a weapon, including AK47's, and there were 26 Gun Shops open and doing a brisk business in Baghdad. All of these weapons did not prevent an oppressive government under Sadam Houssain, or prevent a … more ›