New York State Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado paid a visit to Pine Bush Friday, meeting with Superintendent Brian Dunn at the district office and visiting Pine Bush High School afterwards. Board President Gretchen Meier and board members Erik Buckley, Kristi Kheiralla and Matt Watkins, as well as district and high school administrators greeted …
Author Susan Swiat paid a visit to Circleville Elementary School recently, sharing her book, Grandpa’s Garden, with several of the younger classes. Swiat, a retired physical therapist who once worked for the Pine Bush School District, wrote the book about her grandson, BJ, who just didn’t like vegetables. His grandpa asks BJ to help …
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An amazing trip for our Pine Bush High School Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Skills (YESS) and National Honor Society students on Friday as they went to the Bashakill Wetlands and Mamakating Environmental Education Center (MEEC). Just days before Earth Day, the trip had special significance as the students learned so much about their environment. …
Robin Conklin and Cara Robertson will receive Mid-Hudson School Study Council (MHSSC) Awards for Excellence this May. Robin Conklin will receive the Teaching Excellence Award. Cara Robertson will receive the Excellence in School Board Service Award. Superintendent Brian Dunn paid a surprise visit to Ms. Conklin in her fifth-grade class at Circleville Elementary School Wednesday …
The Pine Bush Central School District Board of Education adopted the 2024-2025 budget Thursday night, April 18, a $141,504,647 spending plan that maintains all existing academic, co-curricular and athletic opportunities for our students. The budget details The proposed tax levy will increase by 2.96 percent or $1.825 million, for a total of $63,387,542. This budget …
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Seth VanGaasbeek’s third-grade students at CES, as well as passersby in their hallway, had an interesting and fun lesson about dinosaurs that culminated in a dinosaur race! During the lesson, students learned about fossil dinosaur tracks and that they reveal how quickly a dinosaur was running. Students figured out if they could have won …
Crispell was awash in purple Wednesday, in honor of Purple Up For Military Kids Day. Many staff and students wore their shades of purple to honor the students whose families are or were part of the military. Principal Stephen Wilder, himself a former Marine, wanted to make the day special for …
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 10:33 a.m.: The district phone service has been restored. Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 8:15 a.m.: Please be aware that the district is unable to make outside calls or receive outside calls at this time. The company that provides our phone lines is aware of the issue and is dispatching a …
The annual County Service for the Youth in Government Program was held on Friday, April 5. Pine Bush had seven students attend this amazing and educational day, which is sponsored by Orange County, OU BOCES, and the Orange County Youth Bureau. The members of the Youth in Government group shadowed different agencies and …
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Maggy Godinez-Garcia’s eighth-grade Spanish students in class 150 at CVMS put on a fashion show for their clothing unit. They practiced all four fundamentals – listening, reading, writing and speaking, then presented each other in the target language and modeled the clothing by walking the red carpet. The students used their clothing …
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