By Rick Pezzullo– Students at Morse and John Paulding elementary schools in the Tarrytown School District will be participating in remote learning until the end of October. Due to several positive COVID-19 cases in the district in recent weeks and the large nu... More »
The New York State Organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution announced on September 24, 2020 the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Teacher of American History (OTAH) award. Three judges unanimously bestowed the highest total points achievable to... More »
By Rick Pezzullo– Dobbs Ferry High School and Dows Lane Elementary School in the Irvington School District were among 18 schools in New York recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2020. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performanc... More »
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has recognized 12 Irvington High School seniors as Commended Students in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended Students are honored annually for achieving exceptional scores on the Preliminary SAT/N... More »
This week, 16,000 high school seniors from around the country have been named as semifinalists for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships. Winners, who will share in more than $30 million in scholarship money, will be announced in the spring. To qualify as a finali... More »
By Annie Rubinson— The growing momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement has spread to the rivertowns, prompting community members of all ages and backgrounds to share their experiences with racism and injustice. Nearly 200 Irvington residents gathered virtu... More »
By Kira Ratan– This past May, as families remained quarantined in their homes, the Westchester Children’s Association sent out two surveys to determine how parents and school districts were coping with home learning. The results indicate significant gaps in ac... More »
Valedictorian: Sarah Clayton Salutatorian: Matthew A. Silver Emanuel Abreu Ivette Almanzar David Amay Aaron Andrade Victor Michael Aquino Lucero Mike Auquilla John Vernon A. Bacalan Ian J. Balestrieri Gabriel T Barragry Daniel F.Barriga Emma Catherine Basha De... More »
Valedictorian: Sarah Garcia Salutatorian: Zoe Jacobs Leo Abbattista Nicole Abbattista Adama Ahmed Alexandra Alvarado Jason Anderson Jordan Anderson Isai Andrade Santiago Arango Cameron Asadi Ricardo Baez Grullon Payton C. Bailey Jacob Berg Benjamin Birkhahn ... More »
Samuel Felix Perlman, Valedictorian Madeline V. Zuckerman, Salutatorian Andrew Steven Abrons Emily Afriyie Lauren Marie Ahern Roya Foroughi Arjomand Christopher Bentley Arnold III Gabriel Diego Baez Jaewoo Bang Isabella Teresa Barrett David Ben-Ezra Joseph A... More »
Jonas Eric Abady Sinan A. Aksu Dara Jolie Anhouse Maya Aninagyei Asante Lawrence Azzariti Zachary Thomas Barnet Alexandria Batson Julia Bavaro Sofia Sloane Benson Riley Jaye Block Anna Y. Bluhdorn Alexa M. Boglitz Timothy Borowiec Madison Burton Eiler Byberi J... More »
Irvington Middle School eighth grader Katherine Fisher has been selected as a finalist in The New York Times’ 7th annual Editorial Contest for middle and high schoolers. In her short, evidence-based persuasive essay, “Firearm Legality: Something Needs to Chang... More »
By Kira Ratan– As the Irvington School District gears up for budget votes and trustee elections tonight, officials have decided to broadcast counting votes live via zoom. Once the votes are tallied, the board of education will meet around 9 p.m. to accept the ... More »
by Rick Pezzullo Only two of the four local school districts will have competitive Board of Education races for the delayed trustees’ elections this spring. This year the elections and the budget vote will be held by absentee ballot only, following a recent ex... More »
By Barrett Seaman Spring is such an emotional time for high school seniors—in no small part because that is when they find out which colleges are willing to take them and ultimately which of those they decide to attend. It’s an especially fraught time for Lati... More »
by Maria Ann Roglieri Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today in a news conference that all New York schools and colleges will remain closed through the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. School plans for the summer and fall are still in play. “This is the best cou... More »
By Rick Pezzullo —The Irvington School Board of Education appointed two new administrators — John Buonamano as director of physical education, health and athletics, and Liza Greenspan as assistant principal at Dows Lane Elementary School — at a special meeting... More »
The New York State Board of Regents on April 6 announced that the June Regents exam, used to certify completion of high school in the state’s public schools, has been cancelled. Instead, schools are advised to rely on teachers’ evaluations and classroom perfor... More »
by Kim Gaudin de Gonzalez – The digital divide or homework gap is more obvious than ever right now when 30 million students around the country are relying on a computer and an internet connection to learn from home and maintain social distancing. It’s estimate... More »
Caption: Artwork at RSHM on Valley Street. (photo by Sunny McLean) by Robert Kimmel Artwork by the young students at the W. L. Morse School in Sleepy Hollow deserve more than just the exposure it receives within the school. That was the judgement by the schoo... More »
