Corrugated cardboard and duct tape. Those were the only materials allowed to the students who were building watercraft for the high school’s second annual boat races. The bleachers at the pool were packed on this last day of classes before the winter break. Each student paid $1 to watch the races, with proceeds totaling $450 …
It was a festive mood at the central office of the Pine Bush Central School District last week but it wasn’t just the holidays that made it that way. Representatives of the United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region were on hand to accept a ceremonial check from Superintendent Tim Mains in the amount of $7,734, …
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The Life Skills Class at Crispell Middle School recently took field trips to Walmart in Napanoch and to the Times Herald-Record printing facility in Middletown as part of its community careers unit. While at Walmart, the students learned all about working in retail and what it entails, from the hiring process to inventory and stocking …
The atmosphere at Pine Bush High School cafeteria was festive as upwards of 150 students and family members in the English as a New Language (ENL) program gathered for the annual potluck dinner. Each family contributed a favorite homemade dish or dessert native to their country of origin. Those countries included China, Haiti, Mexico, the …
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Gene Weinstein captivated his audience. The 92-year-old Navy veteran of World War II showed neatly folded newspaper and magazine clippings he had saved from the 1940s to a small group of sixth grade Circleville Middle School students sitting at a lunchroom table. He answered their questions – Where did you live when you in the …
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There is power in words. They are how we communicate. The Wallkill East Rotary knows the impact of words and that is why each year the club participates in the dictionary project where they buy and distribute dictionaries to third graders throughout the Pine Bush Central School District. “One of our service areas is ‘youth’,” …
