March 2020 – Page 2 – The News of the Highlands

Obituaries – March 13, 2020

March 11, 2020 Editorial Staff

Mark V. Aiossa, Jr. January 23, 1949 – March 4, 2020 Fort Montgomery Mark V. Aiossa, Jr., of Fort Montgomery, entered into eternal rest on March 4 in Harrison. He was 71 years old. The

HFIS students were enchanting in Oz!

March 11, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

Members of the Highland Falls Intermediate School performed in OZ last Wednesday and Thursday.

21 HF-FMCSD students to be honored

March 4, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

MIDDLETOWN — SUNY Orange will celebrate the outstanding achievements of 608 local students — 21 of them from the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District — when the College hosts its 30th Sojourner Truth Awards Program at 6 p.m., Friday, March 6 in the Edward A. Diana Physical Education Building on the Middletown campus.

What was your nickname?

March 4, 2020 Editorial Staff

Nickname: Originally, the Middle English word “eke” (also) was joined with the word “name” — to form “ekename”, or literally “alsoname”. Through the years it morphed into the word “nickname”.

Just a month left to order banners

March 4, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

Individuals, families, businesses, organizations and others planning to order 2020 Military Appreciation Banners from the Highlands Chamber of Commerce have until March 30 to get the order in.

Schmitt stopped by the Senior Center, with cookies

March 4, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

Assemblyman Colin Schmitt may be relatively new at his job, but he knows the way to get undivided attention when he stops by a Senior Citizen Club meeting … bring a tray of cookies.