Salmon River’s first Whiz Quiz team celebrated

BOCES students complete modular home; open house slated

Malone school board gets input from Capital Region BOCES

Basketball league renamed in honor of Ken Cring

MALONE — Five students in a new course at Franklin Academy started their school week off with a question and answer session featuring a documentary director.

Saranac Lake family: Racism drove student out of school

MALONE — Franklin Academy is offering a new course for college credits through SUNY Potsdam.

Local student nominated for Presidential Scholars Program

BOCES hosts holiday open house

Salmon River students take part in torch relay

SARANAC LAKE — With the semester’s classes ending today, North Country Community College (NCCC) officials continue to rebound from the COVID pandemic. In an exclusive interview with the Enterprise, four senior administrators Thursday talked about enrollment, tuition, expanded programs and ho…

MALONE — School board officials voted to appoint a retired educator as interim superintendent at a meeting Tuesday evening, filling the spot that will be vacated by the board’s current superintendent Jerry Griffin.

MALONE — With the holiday season in full swing, a group of local volunteers need a little help to make the holidays special for area children.

MALONE — Faculty, staff and students at North Country Community College’s Malone campus welcomed kids of all ages for a holiday celebration Friday, and organizers said they were excited about the turnout and hope to make the event an annual occurrence.

FORT COVINGTON — A group of students from a Franklin County school made it all the way to the finals of a long-running television quiz show.

MALONE — Area residents are invited to North Country Community College’s Malone campus on Friday as the college hosts a visit from Santa Claus, the school recently announced in a press release.

MALONE — The Malone Central School District Board of Education is looking for feedback in the search for the school district’s next superintendent.

ST. REGIS FALLS — The new superintendent in St. Regis Falls is set to take over the school district’s top job in January.

MALONE — Prior to the start of Thanksgiving break, students and staff at Malone Middle School were treated to a magic show on Tuesday afternoon.

Following a search that included community input, the Potsdam Central board of education unanimously voted to appoint Jerry Griffin to be the district’s next superintendent of schools at last Tuesday’s board meeting, the district announced in a news release.

MALONE — Franklin Academy and Malone Middle School students will perform two plays with premieres on Thursday evening and another show on Saturday at the high school auditorium.

From staff reports

New choice for St. Regis Falls superintendent tentatively accepts

MALONE — Administrators and teachers took time at Tuesday evening’s school board meeting to show their appreciation to the board of education at Malone Central School District.

DICKINSON — A Dickinson Center author has been awarded a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for his serial novels based on real-life experiences with wild animals.

MALONE — The Franklin County Youth Bureau held its second annual trunk or treat Saturday at the fairgrounds in Malone. A line of hundreds of candy-seekers stretched around the racetrack and dozens of participants handed out treats on a breezy but mild afternoon.

POTSDAM — One of two finalists for the upcoming superintendent vacancy in the Potsdam Central School District has withdrawn his name from consideration.

MALONE — As part of a political science class, New Vision students at North Franklin Educational Center in Malone recently got the chance to chat with Matt Castelli, the Democratic nominee in the race for New York’s 21st Congressional District.

MALONE — The board of education unanimously passed a resolution finalizing the school district’s energy performance contract during a meeting at Franklin Academy Tuesday evening.

MALONE — The superintendent of Malone Central School District has been announced as one of two finalists for the top job in Potsdam’s school district.

The Franklin-Essex-Hamilton Board of Cooperative Educational Services (FEH BOCES) announced Friday that a mostly-completed “tiny house” built by students will be sold through an online auction process ending on Oct. 18, according to a press release from the agency.

ST. REGIS FALLS — A trio of finalists for the superintendent position will go in front of stakeholder groups next week.

MALONE — Franklin Academy’s new field will host its first three athletic events in the first two weeks of October.

BURKE — Malone middle and elementary school students took a field trip to the Almanzo Wilder Farm on Stacy Road Friday, getting a first-hand look at living history.

FORT COVINGTON — For the first time since the mid-1970s the Salmon River Central School district has its own football program.

FORT COVINGTON — Administrators across grade levels at Salmon River Central School reported healthy progress for students who participated in summer school, and said they feel optimistic about the new school year in a presentation to the school board Wednesday evening.

CHATEAUGAY — District officials held a public hearing on the school’s required safety plan Tuesday at the regular meeting of the board of education. The detailed plan follows guidelines laid out by the state on how the school should respond in emergency situations, officials said.

CHATEAUGAY — Chateaugay middle school teachers have a new tool to help deal with problematic behaviors in their students, the school board heard in a presentation from Crystal Sampica-Manor, behavior specialist at the district.

MALONE — An area human services agency has teamed up with the county and several area school districts to provide family support and advocacy services in an effort to connect schools, families and communities in rural areas where support resources may not be readily available.

Students across the North Country shouldered their book bags and returned to school Tuesday in a relatively normal first day of school after two years of lockdowns and COVID restrictions. Area school officials said they hope the return to normalcy will benefit students and faculty alike.