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Colonie Central High School celebrated 2018 Awards Night on May 17. There were 120 students recognized and $80,000 in scholarships and awards were given out. Awards Night Program and Recipients

View a Video Unveiling of the Winning Billboard View More Photos From Today’s Billboard Unveiling View WTEN Channel 10 News Story Congratulations to sophomore Erica Coleman this year’s winner in the annual billboard design contest for Colonie Central High School digital art students. Her winning billboard was unveiled today in front of local media, her …

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South Colonie residents went to the polls on Tuesday, May 15, and approved a $102.19 million budget for the 2018-19 school year by a vote of 1,019-297, and a $1.07 million proposition to purchase 10 new school buses by a vote of 1,021-293. Elected to five-year terms on the Board of Education were newcomers Colleen …

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Veeder Elementary School is proud to announce the winners of this year’s third grade technology egg car race challenge. In the category “with help,” left to right winners are: 3rd Place – Chaudhry Sheharyar, 2nd Place – Madden Abraham and 1st Place – Kyle Trombley In the category “without help,” 1st Place was awarded to …

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Lisha Kill Middle School held its grade 5-6 CAI Pi Day Challenge this year. Mrs. Peplowski and Mrs. Theriault had 42 students challenge themselves to memorize as many digits of PI as they could and recite them before their classmates and judges. It was another record breaking year. Fifth grader Ian Zehnder broke last year’s …

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The Workforce Team Challenge 3.5 mile walk-run is taking place the evening of May 17.  This year’s South Colonie Team, including 25 staff members, will be wearing special edition Shana Strong T-shirts “to honor our Workforce Team Challenge teammate Shana Marra,” who died in January 2018 at the age of 44. Shana Marra ran this …

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Four Sand Creek Middle School students (Dylan Morehouse, Ryan Seestadt, Div Pramanick and Stephen Pham) participated in the KidWind National Competition in Chicago. The team, the SC Winders, qualified for Nationals by finishing first at the Regional Competition held at General Electric Co. in March. Under the direction of their Coach Jim Brown, the team …

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Forest Park Elementary School held Kindergarten orientation in May. Below is a link to an informational slideshow that was presented to new Kindergarten parents: Forest Park Kindergarten Orientation Slideshow

Eight Roessleville Elementary School students were honored this spring for outstanding leadership and excellence in Physical Education. Honored in May with a 2018 Sandra G. Morley Physical Education Student Leadership Award were Samuel Cruz, Aidan Kelley, John Verbo, Ashley Barrett, Julia Keefe, Grace Roark, Magdalena Villa, and Kelly Waite. They were nominated for the award …

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Three of Ms.Festin’s art students at Colonie Central High School represented South Colonie this May at the Troy Congressional Art Show located at the Arts Center. This show is hosted by Congressman Paul Tonko. Kendall Benac 10th grade, Sara Rybitski 10th grade and Loxie Shaw 9th grade all had their artwork hanging in the show …

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