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Life Lessons with a Little Football Mixed In
Report Illustrats Verizon's Impact on Video Competition in NJ
For Stanhope Teacher, Technology Makeover Will Be Big Hit
Technology Grant Helping Infants Learn Basics
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Life Lessons with a Little Football Mixed In

Ken Trimmer
Ken Trimmer is head football coach at Caldwell High School. The biggest problem he's ever had to face with his players is whether or not they missed a class or test. So, it was a revelation five years ago when he was sitting with several inner city football coaches before the annual North-South all-star high school football game at Rutgers, of which Trimmer is the game director.


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Hard to believe it's been more than three years since Verizon entered the video market in New Jersey. It was 2006 when state legislation was passed allowing Verizon a system-wide video franchise. As part of the legislation, the NJ Board of Public Utilities was required to issue a report on the progress and impact of Verizon's entrance to the cable TV market.

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Mrs. Smith's incoming fourth-grade class is in for a big surprise this fall.
Rosemary Smith, a fourth-grade teacher at Byram Lakes Elementary School in Stanhope, won a $10,000 technology makeover grant for her classroom by participating in the Verizon Thinkfinity Home Run Sweepstakes.Smith was one of more than 1,700 teachers in the greater New York metropolitan area who entered the free, month-long contest.

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Technology Grant Helping Infants Learn Basics

Children's Specialized Hospital is the largest pediatric healthcare rehabilitation system in the United States. It grew out of a simple mission back in 1891 to operate a summer haven for the city children in the hopes that a respite from city life would bolster their health and well being. It grew into much more.

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