Student profile: Ashley Curtis
“Dude, I don’t even know. What was good about high school?”
Education
New Paltz High School Drama Club to perform Kaufman & Hart classic “You Can’t Take It with You”
The antics of this sweetly-but-alarmingly dysfunctional family will come to life once more in the Otto Grassel Auditorium at New Paltz High School on November 17 through 19.
Later start times, Second Amendment, discussed at Onteora BOE meeting
Policy changes were made, funds were approved for programming, and some questions asked for clarification before Kevin Salem, acting as
Kingston BOE will vote on plan to move administration to former elementary school
To renovate or not to renovate?
Saugerties, Kingston districts to hold suicide prevention forum Nov. 10
“There are people [kids] can speak to. It’s a feeling of no one understanding, no one has been through this before, and there are people who understand and have been through it before. There is hope.”
Kingston Marching Band places 2nd in state contest
The Kingston High School Tiger Marching Band competed last week in the New York State Championship’s Large School 2 Division with six other bands.
Kingston School Board will consider using former elementary school to house administrators
The KCSD took a small step toward clarifying a plan for the former Frank L. Meagher Elementary School last week when the school board voted to lead an environmental review of the site should they decide to approve a referendum that would turn the building into an administrative headquarters and pre-kindergarten hub.
Theater dedicated to beloved Kingston teacher
The Kingston High School community gathered on Saturday for a ceremony formally dedicating the school’s auditorium to the late Wendell Scherer, a much beloved teacher who passed away last year. A plaque put up in his honor reads in part, “For almost 40 years, Wendell embodied the joy and true spirit of education with teaching English, Theater Arts and Mythology at MJM and then Kingston High School.
Student profile: Jasmine Walker
When guidance counselor Jessica Peterson came into Jasmine Walker’s Life Prep class in freshman year, her talk about the importance of clubs prompted Walker to join no less than seven school organizations. Now a senior, Walker has narrowed her tastes, and says she couldn’t be happier.
Saugerties student scientists gather Hudson River info for DEC
Students in Brian Robinson’s advanced placement environmental science class were among 4,500 elementary, secondary and college students who participated in the DEC’s 14th annual “Day in the Life of the Hudson River Estuary” program.