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Newtown Ct Shooting

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

New Providence Reacts To Newtown, CT Elementary School Shooting

Schools are monitoring students carefully following the tragic elementary school shooting in Connecticut, while the borough looks for a way to remember the 26 victims.

The horrific shooting that claimed the lives of 20 elementary school children and six adults in Connecticut on Friday continues to affect communities near and far, including New Providence. On Monday, New Providence School District administrators and faculty monitored students carefully while reassuring parents of the districts’ safety procedures. At the same time, borough officials began looking for a way to symbolically remember the lives lost in this unspeakable tragedy. New Providence Schools Guidance counselors, psychologists and social workers are on staff throughout the district, said Superintendent David Miceli, and with any tragedy, students always have the opportunity to meet with any of them. Miceli and district principals …

Friday, December 14, 2012

'It Wasn't Me' Hoboken Man Named as Shooter Writes

A Connecticut town once voted the safest place to live in America experiences horrific violence in one of its elementary schools.

The man identified in media reports Friday as the shooter in the second deadliest school shooting in American history has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime, Patch has learned. A close friend of Ryan Lanza who requested to not be identified told Patch that he spoke to Lanza as he was making his way home from work to Hoboken. Lanza also took to his Facebook page to rail against CNN naming him as the suspect in the shooting in Newtown, Conn.  “I’m on the bus home now, it wasn’t me,” Lanza wrote. Lanza’s mother, Nancy, a school teacher, is believed to be among the dead. More than 25 people, including 18 students, died in the mass shooting. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20, the younger …

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John Santaella

7:10 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012

If that was an automatic weapon it would have gone through that ammunition in less than a minute.   more ›

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