Forest Park Elementary School students enjoyed learning about birds of prey with The Wildlife Institute of Eastern NY. Students had an up-close introduction to an assortment of birds of prey including an Eastern Screech Owl (Hootie), a Barn Owl (Darwin), an Aplomado Falcon (Esteban), a Red Tailed Hawk (Lily), and a Eurasian Eagle Owl (Wyatt). …
Colonie Central High School student Francis Cheeran has been named a Finalist in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship (NMS) Program. Cheeran joins other academically talented high school seniors who have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. The …
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Forest Park Elementary School students were honored for showing Empathy during today’s Morning Program as part of the school’s Character Education initiative. Award winners were nominated by their teachers.
Kindergarten students invited parents to join them to celebrate a love of reading on Valentine’s Day in the new Forest Park Elementary School library. Students first read to their family member or guest from a selection of books they read in the classroom. Their family member or special guest then read a book the student …
Veeder Elementary School’s “100 Items for HATAS” campaign was a huge success! HATAS, the Homeless and Travelers Aid Society of Albany, is committed to reducing, combating, and preventing homelessness within the Capital Region and beyond. During the campaign, each Veeder class did an outstanding job collecting items that would make someone’s life easier. Those items, …
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Seventh graders in Stacey Sebert’s and Melissa Vogt’s Science classes held their annual Souper Bowl contest in at Sand Creek Middle School. Students built insulators to see which insulator kept their soup the warmest. This year we had a TIE! Two groups won our Souper Bowl contest. The first group consisted of Deven Small, Lucy …
The Colonie High School, Shaker and CBA members of the Town of Colonie Youth Advisory Board recently met with local officials: Assemblyman Phil Steck and Senator Neil Breslin to discuss relevant topics regarding current and local issues. Colonie High addressed the increasingly more prevalent topic of the widening socioeconomic gap and the injustices caused by …
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Colonie Central High School honors its senior boys basketball players and cheerleaders from the Class of 2018 at Friday home game. Sports photos by Robert Goo at www.goosphotos.com Senior Night Honors Photo Gallery
Officer Tracey Burns, Principals Marohn and Nicholson celebrate Friday with fifth grade DARE graduates at Sand Creek Middle School. Thank you to the teachers, administrators, Board of Education and the Town of Colonie for their support. Sand Creek DARE Graduation Photo Gallery
South Colonie students represented Lisha Kill and Sand Creek middle schools at the annual Mathcounts Competition in February. Each year, the Capital District Chapter of the National Mathcounts Foundation hosts a local competition for middle school math students at the GE Global Research Facility in Niskayuna. For the 32nd consecutive year, the chapter competition offered …
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