Pinelands Regional Superintendent of Schools Melissa McCooley announced the high school will be adding a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program into its mix in the 2023-24 school year, “which will be an elective for students,” said McCooley, “and they will travel the last periods of the day to Southern (Regional High School). So we partnered with them to help Southern out with some of the costs and to provide that service to our students, so we’re super excited about that.”

Several other new course options will be available to Pinelands High School students at the beginning of the next…