The Virtue of the Month recognition was awarded during a Morning Express program, where Principal Jean Sampsell encouraged the entire student body to reach out to the awardees for advice if self-control is an area they have struggled with.
Twenty-two Phoenix Central School District students were honored recently for their volunteerism during the President’s Youth Service Awards ceremony. The annual dinner and awards presentation, held at the Phoenix Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, recognizes students who complete 300, 500 or 1,000-plus hours of community service.
The NAMM Foundation has recognized the Mexico Academy and Central School District as one of the Best Communities for Music Education for 2018.
The timberdoodle, also known as the American woodcock, advertises courtship intentions by strutting about a singing ground and emitting a series of nasal peents.
For the eighth year in a row, the Phoenix Central School District’s music program earned national recognition as one of the Best Communities for Music Education.
Seventh and eighth grade students at the Fulton Junior High School showed off their comedic, acting, singing and musical talent abilities during the inaugural FJHS Talent Show. Thirteen brave acts took center stage to entertain the crowd in the school cafeteria.
A lighthouse keeper cares for a lighthouse, which serves as an important navigation tool for people traveling via water. At Mexico Elementary School, that water is the educational path of students in grades pre-kindergarten through four. The lighthouse is the school and its keepers are the newly formed Student Lighthouse Team.
“It seems like forever since we first came up with the idea that someone might like to have it on CD.” said Michael A. Bolio, the show’s composer. “There were some ups and downs and out right roadblocks in the process, but we made it through.”
Per the decision of Oswego School Superintendent Dr. Dean Goewey, Monday, April 16, will now be a Superintendent’s Conference Day and no students should report to school. This decision provides the opportunity for OCSD students, staff and community members to attend the funeral of our lost friend and colleague, Michele Wink, he said.
It’s not too late to apply for scholarship money for high school seniors interested in pursuing a degree in the fields of facility management, building maintenance, construction trades or construction management.
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