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Do you need assistance preparing for the May 3 SAT? The Oswego County BOCES Distance Learning Program will host SAT Prep Classes, Wednesdays from March 12 to April 30. There will be no class on April 16 and 23. The classes will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

School Principal Jeff Hendrickson honored the students during a recent school-wide character assembly and described the virtue and the honorees as having “the ability to listen to someone else’s ideas and interact with someone with differing ideas in a fair, kind and respectful way.”

Teachers and administrators at Sandy Creek Elementary School recently organized a Common Core Parent Information Night where parents could learn more about the implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards into the elementary curriculum.

Seventeen students from John C. Birdlebough travelled back to their elementary school, Michael A. Maroun, recently to assist educators in teaching for the day. The Back to the Future (BTTF) program is held annually during regent’s week, allowing high school students to volunteer when they aren’t testing.

The Sandy Creek Central School District, will again be accepting nominees for the “Wall of Distinction.” “Graduates of distinction” are those who have achieved a high level of prominence in their personal and professional lives and who represent a positive role model to our youth.

“We are becoming a kinder school,” Fulton Junior High School Principal Ryan Lanigan told the students during a recent Kindness Assembly at the school. Lanigan shared data regarding behavior that included “lots of positives and some things that we need to work on.”

The following students have been named to the dean’s list for the Fall 2013 semester at the University of Vermont.

The Friends of the Hannibal Free Library recently nominated its new officers for 2014.

All Oswego County government offices, including the solid waste transfer stations and recycling drop-off centers, will be closed Monday, Feb. 17, for Presidents’ Day.