On Tuesday evening, the stars were shining bright in the auditorium at G. Ray Bodley High School. The stars were the fifth and sixth grade performing arts students from Volney Elementary School that took the stage to participate in the school’s annual winter concert.
Fifth and sixth grade students, under the direction of band director JoAnne Sherwood, chorus director Stephanie Almeter, and orchestra director Kelly Evans performed several songs for an audience of family, friends, and community members on Tuesday evening.
In recognition of Coach Decker’s lasting impact both on and off the basketball court, the APW Central School District, by recommendation of many alumni, named the new basketball court at the APW Junior/Senior High School Grant Decker Court.
The Catskill Puppet Theater stopped by Volney Elementary School on Monday to present a live theatrical production to students in kindergarten through grade six.
Fifth grade students at Lanigan Elementary School recently participated in a new group aimed at including parents into the new common cores standards and curriculum for the grade, the Lanigan Café Book Club.
“Caring,” “generous” and “dedicated to our community” were phrases heard often by the crowd who gathered during a reception at Bishop’s Commons Enriched Living Residence in Oswego, as speakers described characteristics of the 2012 John Foster Burden Award recipients.
The final two students, Oren McDougal, 7th grade, and Conner Waggoner, 8th grade, went back and forth for several rounds before McDougal successfully spelled the word succumb after Waggoner had incorrectly attempted the word. McDougal then correctly spelled the winning word: monumental.
Role model students at Lanigan Elementary School were recognized for exhibiting November’s character attribute of the month, gratitude.
23 foreign exchange students from 19 different countries around the world, which are living locally in the Upstate New York area, were hosted by the Scriba Volunteer Fire Department on December 1. The highlight of the tour was the students trying on the turnout gear worn by the firefighters.
At 12:25 this afternoon (Dec. 3), Oswego County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a residence on County Route 25 in the town of Minetto to investigate the report of a missing person. While investigating the matter, deputies were dispatched to another location about one tenth mile away for the report of the discovery of a body of a deceased woman.
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