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Katonah-Lewisboro BOE Race Uncontested
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Ashlyn Field Named Principal of Meadow Pond
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Quarter of John Jay High School Students Choose Remote Learning
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Students Returning to Katonah-Lewisboro Classrooms Full-Time
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John Jay Junior Accepted into UCLA Architecture Program
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Katonah Elementary School Students ‘Think Through the Arts’
By THE HARVEY SCHOOL
May 6, 2021The Harvey School has announced the names of the area students who have earned academic honors for the first marking period of the spring term. The following have been awarded a Cavalier Scholar certificate (GPA of 4.0 or higher) or have earned places on the Head’s List (3.7or higher) or Honor Roll (at least 3.3):
Isabelle Abramson, 12, South Salem, Head’s List; Logan Alexander, 8, ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – Ashlyn Field will become principal of Meadow Pond Elementary School in July, succeeding Carolann Collica Castellano, who has led South Salem’s youngest students since 2007.
Field, now principal of Mott Haven Academy Charter School in the Bronx, looked on via Zoom last week as the Katonah-Lewisboro school board unanimously ratified her selection.
“I am ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – With Trustee Terrence Cheng of South Salem stepping down after one term, district residents will find only two candidates for two seats when they vote next month.
Newcomer Elena Shneyer of Goldens Bridge will join board president Marjorie Schiff, a Pound Ridge resident, in running for the three-year seats. Schiff will be looking for her fourth term on the ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – As Katonah-Lewisboro schools fully reopened last week for the first time in a year, a quarter of John Jay High School students were choosing instead to continue learning from home.
The district said 245 of the school’s 998 students have opted to attend online classes only to finish this extraordinary 2020-21 school year.
Attendance percentages were markedly ...
Harvey’s robotics program continues to impress as two teams of its RoboCavs came up as winners in a big way Saturday, April 17, in the VEX Southern New York State Championship live-remote competition. The RoboCavs team 6277D, paired with a Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School squad, took the first-place trophy with a nail-biting final round 154-141 victory over two other paired ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – Giving the COVID-weary yet another reason to hope that normal is nigh, students in Katonah-Lewisboro schools were returning this week to classrooms full time.
If things go as planned—and School Superintendent Andrew Selesnick was optimistic they would—almost all the district’s students will be back in classrooms five days a week for the first time in ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – When Millie Peacock was in middle school, she was hooked on Minecraft. “I built houses and houses for days on end,” she remembers. She was so immersed in the virtual building game that her mom, Lyn, began looking for a high school that offered architecture. That search brought Millie to the Katonah-Lewisboro School District where she is now a junior and ...
KATONAH, N.Y. – At the January inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first national youth poet laureate, Amanda Gorman, took to the podium to recite her work, “The Hill We Climb.” Then on Feb. 7, at Super Bowl LV, Gorman would deliver another poem titled the “Chorus of the Captains,” which focused on three honorary ...
I recently came across a blog article titled, “Why Children Need Camp Now More Than Ever,” essentially a list of social/emotional needs that have been neglected due to the pandemic. The article explains, in the most scholarly way, why children have suffered for the last 13 months and how camp can help ease children back into an educational setting and ultimately childhood. And while ...
