Meeting of the Board of Education (Executive Session only) – The meeting will be held via google meet and will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday, April 4. The Board anticipates that it will move immediately into executive session. No public business will be discussed before or after the executive session.
We will experience a near total solar eclipse in our location on Monday, April 8. This phenomenon will be created when the moon passes directly between the earth and the sun. The sun will become nearly fully blocked by the moon at approximately 3:25 p.m. on this day and it will become dark. …
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Pine Bush High School juniors Tiara Bernard and Leah O’Donnell were among 34 students honored at the Orange-Ulster BOCES’ 2024 Humanities Honoree Awards Ceremony held at the Otterkill Country Club recently. Tiara and Leah were nominated by staff at Pine Bush High School for the honor. The event celebrated students from throughout the …
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What a surprise for EJR fifth-grader Scarlett Voight! Scarlett was chosen as the winner of the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Council of Orange County (ADAC) essay contest and received her awards right in her classroom. Alayna Eisloeffel and Briana Todor from Tri-County Prevention Coalition, Lauren Savino from Orange County Stop DWI, Maryalice …
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On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America. Parts of New York State will witness this total eclipse. Here in the Hudson Valley, we will be able to see 93 percent of the sun hidden by the moon at around 3:25 p.m. It will look like night time in the …
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The Pine Bush High School lip dub is finally here! Just before winter break in December, 2023, the whole high school came together to produce a lip dub video and the entire school participated. Director Robin Evans and Principal Aaron Hopmayer, along with a terrific team, put this all together. The mood was …
Pine Bush High School senior Jessica Wells received a full Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Marine Option Scholarship to Penn State University. Jessica competed with more than 200 applicants and was one of six selected to receive this scholarship. This highly selective process only accepts 30 percent of applicants. In four years, upon graduation from …
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Congratulations to Ketura Rutty, Jahesa Stokes and Leticia Watson on being named as top 50 players by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York (BCANY). Our girls varsity head coach, Michelle Bouffard, was named Coach of the Year for Class AAA by BCANY. “Congratulations to Jahesa, Ketura and Leticia on achieving this distinction, …
Pine Bush High School presented Matilda The Musical to a very special audience just days before the public performances. About 100 senior citizens attended the annual dinner and show, offered free of charge by the district. The turkey dinner included all the fixings and was donated by our vendors. Bus transportation was also donated …
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This is Diversity Week at Pine Bush Elementary School! On Monday special guest readers were welcomed into classrooms to read some wonderful books to our students. District personnel, local officials and police officers took their turns reading books about being different. Superintendent Brian Dunn stopped by Lori Malara’s kindergarten class to read “Isabel and …
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