Two 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
Read MoreStudents in Angela Spreter’s seventh grade art class at Henry H. Wells Middle School in Brewster leaned over their art tables, carefully coloring in ornate sugar skull designs with vibrant colors. While students all started with plain white paper and
Read MoreFor U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-White Plains), speaking to Ossining High School students last Friday was, as he put it, “the highlight of my week.” Jones was invited by the school’s Human Rights Club to answer questions from students on
Read MoreStudents and faculty marked the final vegetable harvest of the student garden located at Matthew Paterson Elementary in Carmel, an idea that seeded, grew and bloomed this spring and summer. Eileen Magnotta, a physical therapist who works at the three
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