Carmel High School welcomed 18 high-achieving business-minded senior students into the Business Honor Society of New York in a recent ceremony. To be inducted, senior students must have completed at least four business education classes, including at least one college-credit
Read MoreThe French-American School of New York (FASNY) has sold its 130-acre property in the Gedney Farms neighborhood of White Plains to a residential developer. FASNY, which educates more than 720 students at three locations in Mamaroneck and Larchmont, had been
Read MoreIn a week when many families might tune in to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Carole Garcia donned a festive turkey headband and read a book about the history of the parade to a class of fifth graders. “Balloons over
Read MoreTwo days before Thanksgiving, the SPCA of Westchester had plenty of reasons to be thankful. On Nov. 23, students from the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls Union Free School District delivered two crates that will be used to store the dogs’ toys
Read MoreWilliam, a sixth-grader at Mahopac Middle School, was walking through the hallway with a friend during change of class on Friday, Nov. 12 when the friend suddenly stopped and started motioning toward his throat. Then the boy’s face turned red,
Read MoreTheresa Perna wasn’t planning on becoming a children’s author at her stage in life. The 33-year Armonk resident who had been a teacher for 40 years answered the pleas of her four adult children, particularly her youngest, to write a
Read MoreSeven individuals were inducted into the White Plains High School Athletics Hall of Fame Monday evening in the school’s Auditorium. The Athletics Hall of Fame dates to a 2015 inaugural. There were no inductions in 2020 due to the coronavirus
Read MoreIf you want to know anything about Greek and Roman mythology, just ask Luke, a fourth grader at Lakeview Elementary School in Mahopac. “There’s Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Chronos, the god of time,” Luke said. “Percy Jackson
Read MoreAs the trend of flattened COVID-19 cases persist countywide and vaccination rates hover close to 90 percent, White Plains Public Schools are partnering with the Westchester County Department of Health to help the pediatric population get inoculated. “We’re at
Read MoreStudents wearing face coverings in schools has become a flashpoint at Boards of Education across the United States. Recently, two mothers made an emotional appeal to Pleasantville school officials to unmask the district’s students, especially the youngest children. Addressing the
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