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Six longtime school employees set to retire

May 31, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

The majority of the 90 minute Board of Education meeting on May 23 was spent honoring six long-time Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District employees who are retiring at the end of the current school year.

USMA Class of ’19 was most diverse

May 30, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

When the U.S. Military Academy graduated over 980 cadets in the Class of 2019 at its commencement last Saturday, it was a “season of firsts’ for the academy.

Returning to West Point for a very good reason

May 24, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Cadet Jack Murph Pollin graduated from West Point. This week, Brigadier General Pollin, PhD, U.S. Army Retired, and 97 years old from Tucson, Arizona, is back at West Point to attend the graduation of his granddaughter, Cadet Mary Grace Pollin, Class of 2019.

O’Neill ranked #1 in the County

May 17, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

For the second year in a row, James I. O’Neill High School has been ranked first in Orange County high schools in the annual US News & World Reports ‘Best High School’ list.

Students who excel in arts honored

May 17, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

On May 9 the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District held its annual Artists’ Recognition.

Impressive news

May 13, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

On Tuesday, April 30, the O’Neill Women’s Choir travelled to Nyack High School to participate in the annual New York State School Music Association’s (NYSSMA) Major Organ-izations Rating Festival.

Skoufis, Schmitt honor USMA cadets

May 10, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

Senator James Skoufis and Assemblyman Colin Schmitt paid tribute to a group of cadets from the U.S. Military Academy during the 67th annual West Point Day on Wednesday, May 1, held in the State Capitol in Albany.

McInvale, Rice were honored

May 9, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

O’Neill High School seniors Miriam Rice and Joe McInvale were among 32 area students who were honored on April 25 “distinguishing themselves in the arts and humanities during their high school careers” at Orange-Ulster BOCES sixth annual Senior Scholar Humanities Breakfast.

JIO students want local action on climate change

May 3, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

If the Board of Education adopts a proposed resolution on Climate Change at its meeting on May 9, it looks as if they’ll be only the second school district in New York State to have done so. The first was the Garrison Union School District.

FMES spelling bee is a tradition

May 3, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

For weeks now, some Fort Montgomery Elementary School second graders have been doing some extra homework — practicing their spelling.