O’Neill High School – The News of the Highlands

O’Neill’s JROTC celebrates end of year

June 5, 2024 Editorial Staff

During O’Neill High School’s JROTC 2024 Battalion Award ceremony a number of students were granted a variety of awards.

Soldier to compete for ‘Best Sapper’

April 3, 2024 Editorial Staff

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Lexi West, a 2016 O’Neill High School graduate and 2021 U.S. Military Academy graduate, is slated to compete in the 17th Best Sapper Competition, to be held April 19 through 22 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Wright is another tool in the fight against addiction

January 10, 2024 Mary Jane Pitt

There was a special guest at last Thursday’s meeting of the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District — his name is Franklin Wright, and he promises that within a few months, community members are going to be used to “seeing me everywhere”.

Skoufis explains what a senator does

October 4, 2023 Mary Jane Pitt

Skoufis, in his sixth year in the state senate and a former six-year Assemblyman, was at the high school last Tuesday to speak to Civics, Economics and Government students about what he does for them.

From Highland Falls to the U.S. Navy

June 28, 2023 Editorial Staff

Petty Officer 3rd Class Amber Toupe, a native of Highland Falls, serves in Japan aboard a forward-deployed U.S. Navy warship.

It was all good ’til baseball came up!

September 28, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

Senator James Skoufis makes it a point to visit area high schools to talk with students about the state government.

There’s now a very special seat at the Waldo Wood Field

September 27, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

On National POW-MIA Day, Friday, Sept. 16, about 100 people gathered alongside the Waldo Wood Field at O’Neill High School to participate in a dedication ceremony for an Eagle Scout project.

24 students inducted into JIO NHS

March 23, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

Twenty four students were inducted into O’Neill High School’s National Honor Society on March 16.

Garrison students shine light on OHS

March 9, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

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.

Congratulations to six JIO students

December 8, 2021 Mary Jane Pitt

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.