SJM_SouthernExposure_0920_SouthernExposure_11_08 9 / 16 / 20 2 : 53 PM Page 1 + + + + + + GO FIGURE SPOTLIGHT HAVING A MOMENT HIT OR MISS ANSWER THIS DID YOU HEAR ? NAMES TO KNOW SouthernExposure SPOTLIGHT AREA FAMILIES , TEACHERS AND Michael Dunlea was honored for his work The Garden State ADMINISTRATORS BEGIN TO as a third - grade teacher at Tabernacle Ele - Parkway exit leading AsDEAL WITH THE CHALLENGES mentary School in Burlington County . In into Somers Point and AND UNCERTAINTY THAT THIS NEW Camden County , the NJEA recognized Angel 30Ocean City that would SCHOOL YEAR WILL BRING , the connection Santiago , who teaches fifth grade at Loring an educator makes with a student is more Flemming Elementary School in Gloucester close permanently under a new proposed ownship . Jami Centrella is an English lan - T important than ever . plan being considered by the New Jersey guage arts teacher at Turnpike Authority . Caroline L . Reutter School in Franklin Township and was the Gloucester County award recipient . $ 9 million “ Our schools rank The amount of money a Shamong man No . 1 in the nation because of the amaz - was ordered to pay as restitution after ing caliber of educa - being sentenced to prison for his role in tors that our county a health care scam linked to his drug teachers of the treatment facility . Two men from Cherry year represent . This Hill and Haddon Township were also Michael Dunlea , Angel Santiago , Jami Centrella , achievement recog - TABERNACLE ELEMENTARY LORING FLEMMING CAROLINE L . REUTTER involved and awaiting sentencing . SCHOOL IN BURLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN SCHOOL IN FRANKLIN nizes their dedication COUNTY GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP TOWNSHIP and success working New Luckily , South Jersey is replete with teach - with our students , a title well - earned and Jersey’s ers who thrive on making a difference . It was well - deserved , ” NJEA President Marie just last year that Haddonfield Memorial Blistan , of Washington Township , says of the ranking High School’s Kimberly Dickstein - Hughes group statewide . for the No . 1 was named New Jersey State Teacher of the All three teachers have the opportunity to best state education system in the country Year . More recently , the New Jersey Education put South Jersey on the map for the second according to Education Week . It’s the Association ( NJEA ) announced the 2020 - 2021 year in a row as each can apply for considera - second consecutive year that the industry County Teachers of the Year and three local tion to be named the next New Jersey State publication has put N.J . atop its list . elementary educators have been recognized . Teacher of the Year . 9cents Actress Anne Heche The increase in New Jersey’s per - gallon is one of the new gas tax set to take effect on Oct . 1 . In the celebrities competing last five years , the tax has risen more on season 29 of ABC’s than 36 cents . Dancing with the Stars . The Ocean City native told us in 2017 that she got her first taste of performing while spending time on the Boardwalk . “ That’s $ where I first became an actress , ” she said . “ I literally 10.3 million started singing for my supper , right on the Board - The combined settlement amount that walk . I would flip burgers and sing show tunes to the state’s two largest wine and spirits get people to come to our stand . ” wholesalers and 20 retailers will pay for being involved in an “ unlawful Earlier this year , we featured WanMor , four scheme , ” according to Attorney General young siblings from Voorhees who just so Gurbir Grewal . happen to be the sons of Boyz II Men’s Wanyá Little Egg Harbor Morris . The singing group has accomplished some Township’s Gaten The number of babies — big things already in their young career , so they Matarazzo , of three girls and a boy — that weren’t going to let the pandemic stop them from Stranger Things fame , a Gloucester County couple performing . The talented band of brothers recently was spotted this sum - recently welcomed into the appeared via video to sing the national anthem mer working as a food 4 world . The babies spent during an NBA playoff game inside the Orlando runner at a Long Beach two months in the NICU before heading bubble at Walt Disney World . Island restaurant . home healthy . SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume17 issue 6 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 12 |