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This Church World Service program is a relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations and has partnerships in more than 80 countries.

A field recruiter from the largest privately held flatbed carrier in the nation, TMC Transportation, was a recent guest in the Oswego County BOCES’ Adult Education CDL-A class.

Plans are under way for the first ‘A Handmade Christmas’ holiday craft show to be hosted by the North Country Crafters. This show, which is being planned as an annual event, will feature arts and crafts all uniquely handmade by group members who are based in New York’s North Country area.

The Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Central School District Dollars for Scholars organization will be hosting a Fall Festival and chicken barbecue fundraiser on Oct. 13 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Altmar Hotel, 6 Mill St., Altmar.

The students at Lanigan Elementary School participated in an assembly recently to celebrate the start of a successful new school year and to review the PBIS (Positive Behaviors and Interventions Supports) initiative and the school’s four behavioral expectations: be respectful, be responsible, be safe, and be a problem solver.

The students selected a picture of an animal or animals and then wrote a descriptive paragraph using the 6+1 writing traits model: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation.

A book project whose seeds sprouted almost two years ago is reaching fruition and should be in area bookstores in late September, with our first reading, book signing from 6 – 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at river’s end book store, 19 W. Bridge St., with our celebration party following at 7:30 p.m.

Every morning students at Fairgrieve Elementary School gather together as a school community to share announcements, reinforce PBIS expectations, celebrate accomplishments and much more.