The acronym stands for Graduation Requirements through Occupational Work Study. Initially intended as a program for students with special needs, the hands-on educational initiative has since expanded to offer opportunities for other students as well.
Smorgasburg Upstate will return to the Hutton Brickyards for a second season in 2017, with the extension of the popular Brooklyn-based food and flea market shifting its focus from every Saturday to Saturdays and Sundays once per month between May and October.
Jill Draper never planned on starting a local movement. The Kingston resident and small business owner said she only wanted to find a way to help local kids when she committed $500 toward erasing student lunch debt. And now, thanks to other generous donors, the debt district-wide is within reach.
Ulster town supervisor James Quigley says that the rumors of Health Quest taking over the former Macy’s at the Hudson Valley Mall are more than just rumors.
The Kingston High School girls’ varsity basketball team didn’t mind seeing January come to an end. The team was winless during the first month of the year, and head coach Steve Garner said the Tigers have to treat the rest of their regular season schedule like the playoffs.
If the numbers hold, the KCSD is in for an increase of 11.31 percent.
On February 7, Donovan Barros and Austen Razek will represent Saugerties in the 35th annual Capital Region Spelling Bee at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, an historic vaudeville house. Barros and Razek finished first and second in the Saugerties Spelling Bee on January 4.
That figure would increase the district’s overall aid amount for 2017-18 by $814,735, potentially good news with the state comptroller’s office last week setting the statewide school property tax levy cap for this May’s budgets at 1.26 percent.
Kingston Stockade FC on Wednesday, Jan. 25 announced the hiring of David Lindholm as their new head coach. Lindholm, a coach at Bard College with a wealth of experience in American soccer, replaces former head coach George Vizvary, a local legend who guided the club through its inaugural season.
The KCSD’s Board of Education last week waded into potentially controversial waters as it unanimously approved a pair of resolutions with both state and national implications.