Granby Elementary School welcomed a special visit last week by famed husband and wife author and illustrator team, Mary Jane and Herm Auch. The Auchs stopped by the school to visit with students in the grades three through six.
Although it has been almost three weeks since Hurricane Sandy hit, the need for relief remains great. Many people still have no home, no heat, no food or basic necessities
As part of the shared decision making model adopted by the Fulton City School District, site based committees from each school building gathered recently for their annual meeting to discuss student performance, educational programs and initiatives as well as look at what to anticipate in the future.
For almost three decades, employees at the Oswego County Department of Social Services have been helping families in need during the holiday season. The annual Children’s Christmas Fund has grown from a toy giveaway initially aimed at foster children to include more than 1,600 children in 600 families last Christmas.
Discovery Day Care is a program of Oswego County Education Services.
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Prior to regular voting action, the members of the board recognized the service of veteran Oswego High School Social Studies teacher Patricia Runeari. She has served the educational needs of Oswego’s students for nearly three decades. The board accepted her retirement which will be effective on January 28, 2013.
The students in Janet McKnight’s classroom at Oswego County BOCES participated in a classroom project where they observed all four stages of a Monarch butterfly’s lifecycle – egg, caterpillar or larva, chrysalis or pupa, and imago or adult.
G. Ray Bodley High School’s newest booster group, The Friends of Quirk’s Players, will be sponsoring a spaghetti dinner on November 18 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Fulton Polish Home.
According to the Surgeon General, in the United States, 3.6 million youth currently smoke cigarettes. In New York, the current rate of cigarette smoking by high school students is 12.6 percent, less than the 17.2 percent national rate.
Box Out Bullying, a comprehensive, evidence-based anti-bullying assembly program was presented recently to students at Granby Elementary School.
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