Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Take our Food Distribution Survey; OC partial reopening; Memorial Day holiday

Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message is about a special survey we have designed about our free meals for kids program. As I hope you all know, we have been distributing meals (breakfast and lunch) for any child in the district under the age of 19 for several weeks now. So far, we …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – June 9 school board/budget vote by absentee ballot only

Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message is about our school elections that were postponed by Governor Cuomo from the third Tuesday in May to now occur on Tuesday, June 9. However, since you can only vote by absentee ballot, you’ll have to mail your ballot well before that date, because we won’t be …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Free masks, donations to food program

Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, I hope you are having a relaxing and rewarding weekend.  I have a couple of important announcements today. First is news about the free masks that I mentioned in some previous calls that have now arrived for us to distribute. These cloth, washable masks come five to a package, …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Take our survey about returning or retrieving things at the schools

Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, In a previous update, I indicated that we have had a team working on addressing how students and staff might be able to get things that they had left at school and return school property. I have now received the initial report from that team. They would like to …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Graduation plans announced; we appreciate our teachers

Good Evening, This is teacher appreciation week and I hope everyone will join me in expressing our deep thanks for all that our teachers have done – and are doing – especially during this challenging time. Tonight I want to share with you our plans for graduation. I know we‌ ‌are‌ ‌all‌ ‌sad‌ ‌and‌ ‌disappointed‌ …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Taking care of our social/emotional well-being: Fairness

Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Friday’s news that we will remain closed for the remainder of the year has hit many hard. Whether it’s the loss of cherished traditions, like field trips and proms, the prospect of trying to maintain the more taxing effort of online learning, or just the realization that teachers won’t …

Message from Superintendent Tim Mains – Schools to remain closed through the end of the school year

Good evening, Today the Governor finally announced what many of us had anticipated: Schools throughout New York will remain closed to the end of this school year. He also indicated that in-person summer school will not be decided until the end of May, so I will wait until then before making any final decisions about …

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Pine Bush Central School District
State Route 302, Pine Bush, NY 12566
Phone: (845) 744-2031
Fax: (845) 744-6189
Joseph Lenz
Superintendent of Schools
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