Pakanasink held its Start With Hello week Sept. 27-Oct. 1 with many different activities to help get kids to look out for each other and welcome others. There were posters throughout the building where students wrote their suggestions to scenarios such as “What would you do if you saw someone playing alone?” or “How can …
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Walk into Kristin Raucci’s classroom on Thursdays after school hours and it is transformed from an ordinary high school classroom into a spa-like setting, complete with low lighting, serene, healing music and meditative images on the whiteboard. Ms. Raucci runs the Wellness Club, an after-school club at Pine Bush High School that focuses on reducing …
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Pine Bush High School inducted 97 juniors and seniors into its National Honor Society Wednesday night. Students were in person for the ceremony at the high school while family and friends could view it live on the district’s website. Bill McMonigle, a beloved, longtime employee at the high school who passed away in May 2020, …
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Lisa Ruyack, the library media specialist at Pine Bush Elementary, gives all the PBE students the challenge of reading for at least 40 days over the months of July and August. Students in grades kindergarten through 2 must read 20 minutes each day and those in grades 3 through 5 read at least 30 minutes. …
Hello Pine Bush families, I’m writing to families impacted by a few changes in our bus schedule that will take effect tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Five bus routes which transport children to seven different private schools will change from Birnie Bus to Orange County Transit in a 30-day emergency contract. The routes, including pick …
The girls modified volleyball team took on Newburgh at the Pine Bush High School gym on Thursday, Sept. 23. This was their very first game as a team and these awesome young ladies from Circleville and Crispell won all six of their sets! The PB volleyball program rocks, and these up-and-coming players will keep that …
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Mariann Bott, a math coach in the Pine Bush district, came to Tara Tuttle’s kindergarten class at Pine Bush Elementary to do a fun STEAM activity with the students. The class learned how to be engineers! After reading the story, “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” a rhyming book about letters racing up to the top of …
Hello Pine Bush families and staff, I wanted to clear up some misunderstandings about our current bus situation based on a number of emails I have received over the past few days. First let me tell you that Birnie informed me earlier today that they have all runs covered for tomorrow, just as they did …
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Hello Pine Bush families, I was just notified by officials at Birnie Bus Company that there will be six public school bus runs (three secondary and three elementary) and one private school run with no drivers for tomorrow. Apparently, three drivers from other depots who had all been promised to us have now been assigned …
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