The defeat of last month’s proposed budget for the Carmel Board Central School District for 2021-2022 has forced the district to come up with a new revised, scaled back budget. The final tally in the May vote was 1,125 for
Read MoreAt a public meeting last week, topping the Carmel Board of Education agenda was the revised budget after the district’s proposed budget of $133,581,366 for the 2021-2022 school year was defeated in May. Preceding the formal budget review, the board
Read MoreBy Alexa Jindal For more than a century since its 1910 inception, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was exclusively for boys 10 to 18 years old. In February 2019 that changed, following an announcement the previous year that girls
Read MoreAn adviser for the Bedford School District told the Board of Education last week that scheduling a facilities and infrastructure referendum for November would be preferable to waiting until next spring to ask voters for support. Janet Morley, vice president
Read MoreBy Samuel Rowland The Ossining Community Equity Task Force and various local and state officials threw its support last week behind the E-Let’s Expand Access to Remote Learning Now (E-LEARN) Act. The proposed legislation, which was introduced by state Sen.
Read MoreBrewster High School teacher Dr. Brittany Kozlenko was selected as one of New York State’s three finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). PAEMST is the highest honor a STEM educator can receive in
Read MoreSecondaries Boutique, a new consignment shop in Mahopac, is all about second chances. The brainchild of Julia Maher and Samantha Jinek, two Mahopac High School seniors, and Jennifer Maher, Julia’s mother, this visionary, for-profit boutique will not only give clothing
Read MoreBy Alexa Jindal and Annie Dineen As vaccination eligibility opens up to children as young as 12 years old, many Westchester County teenagers who saw their age group allowed to take Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for weeks, have had to grapple
Read MoreBianca Braun of Shrub Oak became the 11th student in Westchester Community College (WCC) history to win the highly competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This scholarship provides selected students with up to $40,000 a year to complete
Read MoreThe Carmel Board of Education is attempting to be proactive in keeping an open line of communication between the district and the Kent Town Board regarding a transportation facility following years of contention over a lack of dialogue. Over the
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