Saugerties High School’s top two for ‘18
Valedictorian Kira Podmayersky and salutatorian Michael Averill, both with better than 100 GPAs, will address their peers at the school’s 122nd graduation ceremony June 23.
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Saugerties Writer’s Club is a supportive group
Discussion of the trials, tribulations and successes of being a writer are standard at these meetings, which members sometimes refer to as “therapy nights.”
Saugerties 2018 baseball preview
The Saugerties High School varsity baseball team enters the 2018 season hoping to extend the legacy of last year’s impressive campaign, which saw the team go 16-7-1 overall, win the Section IX, Class A title, and make it all the way to the Capital Region semifinals of the state tournament before their Cinderella season came to an end.
Saugerties school officials praise changes to state tests
Perhaps the most significant change is the reduction of testing days for each exam from three to two. Other changes include shorter, untimed tests, giving students a greater chance at success without worrying about the clock ticking on the wall.
Host of Inquiring Minds poetry sessions publishes sixth book
Turn Out the Lights, the sixth book by Saugertiesian Laura Lonshein Ludwig, promises to contain “a new wave of movies that are as good as the classics of the Gold and Silver Age” on its jacket.
Saugerties Town Board appoints William Myers town justice
Myers, the husband of former Saugerties town supervisor Kelly Myers, will replace Dan Lamb, who died Feb. 13.
Saugerties students march in NYC to protest gun violence
Youths across the United States mobilized to say Never Again to gun violence. Among them, at a New York City demonstration that drew in the hundreds of thousands, were some 20 high-school students from Saugerties and an equal number of adults, not all of them parents.
One-stop shopping for comics, vinyl and tattoos in Saugerties
Bold-lined comic book illustrations on glossy pages have shacked up with the inks and needles of corporal art at Comic Culture and Artistic Hallucinations, the 320 Main Street tattoo parlor that also offers over 1,000 comic books.
Saugerties Hall of Fame inductees: Todd Kramer
Todd Kramer was a 13-year-old eighth grader when he found his athletic calling. Kramer, a 1986 graduate of Saugerties High and member of the Saugerties Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018, found golf.
Performance center for Arm-of-the-Sea Theater will occupy a site with a grand history
A site adjacent to the village’s Tina Chorvas Park off Bridge Street is being cleared to become the future home of the Arm-of-the Sea-Theater, the Saugerties-based organization which performs socially relevant productions with a mix of puppets and costumed players.