Ellen M. Decker, a resident of Manchester and former faculty member of St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, where she taught math for 30 years, died Jan. 17 in Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. She was 82.
To help offset financial hardship experienced by many low-income families, the New Jersey Catholic Conference wrote to Gov. Phil Murphy Jan. 11 to request his support on the “Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act” – a bill that would expand eligibility for free school meals to include nonpublic schools.