The Pine Bush Central School District Board of Education adopted the 2024-2025 budget Thursday night, April 18, a $141,504,647 spending plan that maintains all existing academic, co-curricular and athletic opportunities for our students. The budget details The proposed tax levy will increase by 2.96 percent or $1.825 million, for a total of $63,387,542. This budget …
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Seth VanGaasbeek’s third-grade students at CES, as well as passersby in their hallway, had an interesting and fun lesson about dinosaurs that culminated in a dinosaur race! During the lesson, students learned about fossil dinosaur tracks and that they reveal how quickly a dinosaur was running. Students figured out if they could have won …
Crispell was awash in purple Wednesday, in honor of Purple Up For Military Kids Day. Many staff and students wore their shades of purple to honor the students whose families are or were part of the military. Principal Stephen Wilder, himself a former Marine, wanted to make the day special for …
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 10:33 a.m.: The district phone service has been restored. Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 8:15 a.m.: Please be aware that the district is unable to make outside calls or receive outside calls at this time. The company that provides our phone lines is aware of the issue and is dispatching a …
The annual County Service for the Youth in Government Program was held on Friday, April 5. Pine Bush had seven students attend this amazing and educational day, which is sponsored by Orange County, OU BOCES, and the Orange County Youth Bureau. The members of the Youth in Government group shadowed different agencies and …
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Maggy Godinez-Garcia’s eighth-grade Spanish students in class 150 at CVMS put on a fashion show for their clothing unit. They practiced all four fundamentals – listening, reading, writing and speaking, then presented each other in the target language and modeled the clothing by walking the red carpet. The students used their clothing …
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Pine Bush High School YESS (Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Skills) teacher Kara Sprague reports that 20 students came out on Sunday morning for the Roosa Gap Road clean-up! What a terrific turnout, especially on a Sunday morning! They filled so many bags with trash and recyclables. Some of the more interesting finds they came …
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The Pine Bush High School Technical team won first place and Pine Bush Elementary’s Vehicle team won second place at the New York State Odyssey of the Mind Competition this weekend, which qualified them both to compete in the world tournament, which will be held at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from May 21-24. …
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The Pine Bush Board of Education celebrated three amazing young men who recently earned the distinction of Eagle Scout. Pine Bush High School seniors Travis Coleman, Daniel Healy and Riley Kool, all part of Troop 37 here in Pine Bush, completed their respective projects, and even helped each other. Each of the young …
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Our regional champion Odyssey of the Mind teams are well on their way to the state competition in Syracuse! The three teams – Pine Bush Elementary, Circleville Middle and Pine Bush High School – along with their coaches, boarded the bus earlier this morning and hit the road just after 10 a.m. The competition is …
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