A calming presence

School’s therapy dog eases students’ classroom anxieties

— called an “excessive and fatal” amount — of intravenous hydromorphone, or Dilaudid, that had been ordered by Dr. William Husel, according to the suit filed on behalf of Mcclung’s widow, Vickie Mcclung.

NEWARK — As the seventh-grade class at St. Francis de Sales shuffled

[ERIC ALBRECHT/DISPATCH] Jax, a Portuguese water dog, gets attention from seventh-graders at St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Newark after he entered their computer class with teacher and librarian Annie Robrecht, shown with student Sofia Laviolette in the background. Petting Jax are, from left, Reagan James, Izzy Bartholomew and Grace Huffman.