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SARATOGA SPRINGS
Ballston Spa team wins Environthon
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Ballston Spa Blue team compiled a total of 510 points to win the Saratoga Regional Envirothon competition recently at Saratoga Spa State Park.
SCHENECTADY
Separated by generations, penpals meet
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Mont Pleasant Middle School students have been writing with residents at The Avenue nursing home all year, and on Tuesday they got to meet their penpals at the Altamont Avenue facility.
CAPITAL REGION
Colleges celebrate students’ achievements at ceremonies
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Colleges and universities across the region graduated nearly 5,000 students at five separate ceremonies Saturday, with commencement speakers and graduating classes as diverse as the Capital Region.
CAPITAL REGION
Tuesday is decision day for school voters
Saturday, May 18, 2013
School leaders have spent months grappling with how to control rising costs and still preserve educational quality. Now voters will have their say Tuesday.
NISKAYUNA
6 vie for 3 open seats on Niskayuna Board of Education
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Three incumbents and three challengers are vying for three seats on the Niskayuna Board of Education in Tuesday’s vote.
ALBANY
Student party hosts sue UAlbany
Friday, May 17, 2013
Michael Melita and Giovanni Holmquist are challenging their suspensions by the University at Albany and asking to be reinstated at the university in separate legal actions filed in state Supreme Court in Albany County earlier this month.
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Schoharie County school districts take different tacks with budgets
Friday, May 17, 2013
School taxes would increase anywhere from 1 to 3.92 percent in Schoharie County under school budget proposals voters will consider Tuesday.
SARATOGA SPRINGS
Totenberg urges Albany Law grads to think of bigger picture
Friday, May 17, 2013
At Albany Law School’s 162nd commencement Friday morning, National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg urged the graduates to consider more than just money when choosing career paths.
COBLESKILL
Teens show outdoor skills in competition
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Axes and logs were flying Thursday as more than 500 high school students converged on the SUNY Cobleskill campus for the NYS BOCES Conservation Competition.
JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown students learn of texting’s dangers
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Arrive Alive team leader Patrick Sheehy and tech assistant James Pratt set up a small Hyundai on wheel sensors, wiring the gas and brake pedals to a laptop as they have in countless locations across the country. Students wore virtual reality goggles and attempted to drive a digital course.
SCHENECTADY
Schenectady school board candidates share views
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
By the end of Wednesday’s meet-the-candidates event for Schenectady school board, listeners were simply waiting to see how one candidate would manage to squeeze “early education” into his answer.
GALWAY
Galway consolidating bus runs to save money, classroom time
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This fall, Galway Central School District students will all ride the same buses together — kindergartners up front, seniors in the back.
GREENFIELD
Skidmore plans 8-acre solar array
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Skidmore College would like to install 18 acres of solar panels on its property on Denton Road, creating a solar array that could be the largest in the area.
CLIFTON PARK
Shenendehowa school board member Wiggins to resign
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Shenendehowa Central School District Board of Education member Mary Wiggins said Monday she intends to resign from the board, district officials said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS
Study shows teen substance use in Saratoga Springs
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
There is a stark increase in drinking and marijuana use from eighth grade to ninth grade in the Saratoga Springs City School District, a study by the Prevention Council finds.
