At last Thursday’s HF-FMCSD virtual Board of Education meeting there were two people on the call who could only be described as ‘ambassadors’ for O’Neill High School — seniors Lina Sharifi and Evan Maasik.
If you drove past the Highland Falls Intermediate School on Saturday it might have appeared that school was in session because there were so many cars in the parking lot.
For about five years now O’Neill High School has contracted with Access Physical Therapy for a part-time athletic trainer to work with the school’s student athletes.
In a case of ‘putting your money where your mouth is”, a face familiar to the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery community — at least to those who have had high schoolers in the last 20-plus years — is now not only a teacher, but a politician.
James I. O’Neill High School has proudly announced that five of its students have been named as ‘Commended Students’ in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program; and, one is in contention for a National Merit scholarship.