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Responsibility Awards Given At Volney Elementary
A recipient from each classroom was presented with a Principal’s Award for having shown responsible behavior in the classroom, hallways, special areas and the cafeteria.
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Canale’s Restaurant To Be Guest Chef At Oswego County Salvation Army
Canale’s Restaurant will be providing the next Salvation Army Guest Chef dinner on November 14, 4:30 to 6 p.m. The dinner will be at the Salvation Army Worship and Service Center, 73 W. Second St. Planning is under way for this year’s Red Kettle Campaign. The need is to raise more than $100,000.
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Elmira College Recognizes Key Award Recipients
Elmira College recently recognized many of its most promising new students with the 82nd awarding of the Elmira College Key Award. The Elmira College Key Award, an award of merit sponsored by the Elmira College Alumni Association, has been awarded to students since 1935.
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Bowen’s Corners Church Plans Election Day Bake Sale
Delicious home baked pies, cookies, breads and more will be available at the Annual Election Day Bake Sale to be held at Bowen’s Corners United Methodist Church on Nov. 7.
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NY Great Lakes Experts Contribute to New Asian Carp Report
New York Sea Grant coastal education and fisheries specialists have contributed to development of the comprehensive Education and Outreach on Asian Carp in the Great Lakes report just issued by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network with information on carp life history, movement and behavior, monitoring, control, ecosystem impacts and gaps in current knowledge that need to be addressed further.
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Fourth Street School Welcomes Erin Simmons As Its Principal
A passion for working with challenging youth has led Erin Simmons to her most rewarding professional position yet: principal of Fourth Street School in Fulton. She realized the importance of the work around at-risk youth when she worked with a group of those children while she was in college studying for her bachelor’s degree in psychology.
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Breakout EDU Offers Academic Challenges To Palermo Elementary Students
The game sent students into a frenzy as they are tasked with figuring out various riddles and solutions in order to unlock the next exercise. Split into small groups, the students used the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Kids” they were taught to persevere through the struggles, all while practicing library skills.
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Harvest Festival Teaches Fairgrieve Students About Agriculture, Community
The school’s recent Harvest Festival celebrated local produce and agricultural understanding with an abundance of activities, such as fruit- and vegetable-related games, visits with rabbits, educational challenges, apple cider tasting and a lap around the track with stops at various mock vegetable stands where produce was collected to be placed in a box from each classroom.
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Fun For All At Fulton UPK Family Night
Strengthening families and educational opportunities alike were at the forefront of the recent Fulton City School District Universal Pre-Kindergarten Family Fun Night. Support FCSD’s youngest students receive from home is key to consistent learning in the classroom, according to Carri Waloven, FCSD Director of Literacy and UPK.
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Dizzy Memories At Fulton Rotary
At a recent Fulton Sunrise Rotary meeting, Rotarian Betty Maute, introduced Dawn Myers who spoke about Fulton’s Dizzy Block Project. This year, Fulton Public Library’s literacy project is collecting and publishing a book about Dizzy Block memoirs.