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To qualify for the All-Academic Team, a student must be varsity athlete who has completed the entire season and earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.3 for the semester in which they competed.

Sandy Creek Elementary School first graders recently celebrated their reading accomplishments during the annual Reading Tea event. Reading Tea is the culmination of what the students learned in English Language Arts throughout the school year.

The graduating seniors returned to their elementary alma maters of Volney, Granby, Fairgrieve and Lanigan schools, where they were met with applause from current students and staff members.

Each year the crowds at the Children’s Stage are at capacity as the talented youngsters from the Oswego area are in the spotlight in the annual musical. This year the play “Kilroy Was Here,” book by Tim Kelly and music and lyrics by Bill Fracoeur, comes to Harborfest.

The Pulaski Historical Society will hold the next in its series of Brown Bag Lunches on July 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For the July Brown Bag Lunch, the guest speaker will be Terry Rossman. He will talk about “The Indians of Pulaski.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, of Fulton, graduated from Union College as part of the college’s 222nd Commencement ceremony. Hawthorne received a Bachelor of Science degree while majoring in Chemistry summa cum laude.

Students of Hastings-Mallory Elementary School were recently visited by author and illustrator Matt McElligott. McElligott read his book “The Lion’s Share” to the second and third grade students, a book about math, desserts, animals and competition.