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MALONE — Longtime Franklin Academy Principal Jack Hinman, who spent 23 years heading the sch…
The Regents exams scheduled for January have been canceled statewide due to safety concerns …
ALBANY — School districts previously forced to close within state microclusters may continue in-person learning for students while COVID-19 spikes within a community by meeting specific state testing criteria, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Friday.
ELLENBURG – State audits of Northern Adirondack Central School District criticized the district’s previously heavy reliance on its unexpended fund balance to pay for school operations.
ALBANY — The state will close any New York school district that fails to submit daily COVID-19 testing and infection data to comply with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive order, officials said Friday.
ST. REGIS FALLS –– A change in state Health Department guidelines governing in-person instruction in schools has prompted at least one Franklin County school district to switch to remote-on learning –– again.
State colleges will work with thousands of students as they resume classes to pay tuition bills in installments, officials said, as New York’s free tuition program faces cuts in the wake of economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEW YORK — Religious institutions will be shut down if the communities refuse to comply with the state’s COVID-19 regulations, and schools in some virus hotspots will be closed beginning today, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday.
The Chateaugay Adventurers 4-H Club has been very busy over the course of this summer. Even though we have been apart, we still have been working hard on making sure we make the best of this year.
NEW YORK — The state upgraded its online coronavirus school tracker Thursday to include a second set of district testing data from COVID-19 diagnostic labs so parents and caregivers of school-age children can monitor more accurate results.
Officials are clashing over projected broad 20% cuts to New York’s education budget after the state teachers union filed a lawsuit against the state Wednesday. The suit challenges the executive authority behind budget officials’ anticipated spending reduction amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
School-age children in the North Country have long looked forward to snow days as a bright spot during the dark days of winter, but they may become a thing of the past this school year, and possibly into future years.
4-H and county fairs are as much a part of Americana as country songs and denim jeans. 4-H youth work on a host of hands-on projects, gardens, community service programs, raising and training animals of all sorts, and a slew of science discovery programs throughout the year –– all with the h…
ALBANY — The state’s anticipated, broad 20% cuts to education are disgraceful, educators, union representatives, parents and students said outside the Capitol on Thursday, demanding officials stop school funding slashes that devastate the poorest districts.
NEW YORK — Parents and caregivers of school-age children can monitor the number of students and staff infected with COVID-19 when classes resume this week as the state launches an additional coronavirus tracker today.
ALBANY — New York will unveil an additional public coronavirus interactive tool in the coming days that will track COVID-19 diagnostic tests across schools statewide as in-person classes prepare to resume next week.
ST. REGIS FALLS –– Strict punishments could come to students who don’t follow social distancing and other coronavirus-related safety guidelines at St. Regis Falls Central School.
Future coronavirus clusters and the temporary closure of public school districts are inevitable when students return to classes next week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, as congregates of students in social settings forced a state college to close over the weekend.
North County Community College will receive an $89,700 Northern Border Regional Commission grant to develop a water and wastewater operator certification program, the North Country’s representatives in Congress have announced.
BRUSHTON –– With the start of classes less than a month away, school officials across the region and the state are working out the details of how to have students return to their classrooms safely.
ALBANY — New York schools have the green light to reopen this fall as the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues, but state infection and transmission numbers remain low, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Friday that schools have the green light to reopen this fall.
MALONE –– North Country Community College unveiled a $14.4 million budget for the 2020-21 academic year on Thursday, a decrease in planned spending of about 4% from the 2019-20 year.
BRUSHTON –– The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may have wiped out or dramatically altered the traditional sources of senior-year memories –– prom, commencement, senior trip –– but the top two seniors in the Brushton-Moira Central School District said they made the smaller memori…
PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College plans to hold in-person classes this fall semester with an adjusted academic schedule that includes an earlier start date and conclusion of on-campus learning prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.
NEW YORK — School districts must come up with a plan to safely resume in-person classroom instruction in case New York officials decide to reopen schools and universities amid the COVID-19 pandemic this fall, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday.
SARANAC LAKE — North Country Community College classes will be mostly online this fall semester.
MALONE –– The ability to focus on the task at hand –– be it in the classroom or on the athletic field –– was the driving force behind the success of the top two students in the Franklin Academy Class of 2020.
MALONE –– Franklin Academy senior Zachary Barkman said he had never heard of the National Merit Scholarship Corp. before taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test during his junior year.
ST. REGIS FALLS –– Make it five for five.
MALONE –– While Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has decreed that sleepover summer camps will not open this summer because of the COVID-19 virus, he gave the go-ahead over the weekend for day camps to offer programs beginning June 29.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include results not available by press time Tuesday night.
CHATEAUGAY –– A virtual public hearing on the Chateaugay Central School District’s 2020-21 that includes a modest tax increase generated no comments on the $13.8 million spending plan Monday evening.
ST. REGIS FALLS –– The St. Regis Falls Central School District’s proposed $9.65 million budget for the coming school year breezed through a lightly attended public hearing held via video conference Tuesday night.
Editor’s note: The Telegram traditionally publishes stories about the top two students in the graduating class of each of the five school districts we cover. For the past several years, officials in the St. Regis Falls school district asked if we would be open to letting their valedictorian …
NEW YORK — In-classroom summer school will not take place statewide as cases of COVID-19 complications in children continue to rise, officials said Thursday after extending the state sales tax filing deadline another month.
FORT COVINGTON –– Taxes in the Salmon River Central School District would continue to decrease under a 2020-21 budget approved by the Board of Education on Monday.
ST. REGIS FALLS –– The St. Regis Falls Board of Education agreed Tuesday to increase the overall budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year by $100,000 as a hedge against potential cuts in state aid as the nation works through the COVID-19 pandemic.
FORT COVINGTON –– Determination is the hallmark of Shannon K. Ryan and Rylie K. Gray, who have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Salmon River Central School Class of 2020.
CHATEAUGAY –– Despite continuing uncertainties about the effect of the COVID-19 virus on state funding, the Chateaugay Central School Board of Education voted Tuesday to adopt a 2020-21 budget that reduces district spending by about $334,000.
MALONE — Like spring flowers, signs have been popping up throughout Malone and surrounding communities. Like the flowers, they come in a variety of colors — some green and white, others maroon and white, blue and gold or red and black.
ALBANY — Schools across New York will remain closed for the rest of the academic year as the state continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Friday.
NEW YORK — School’s out for summer — and maybe even longer.
ALBANY — Every New Yorker will receive a postage-paid absentee ballot application for the June 23 primary election, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared in an executive order Friday, as he continued his plea for the federal government to fund states in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MALONE –– What a difference a week makes.
Cornell Cooperative Extension has been partnering with the Malone YMCA for eight years now to provide Malone and surrounding towns with their very own local day camp. With the current situation, we are staying positive and still planning for a full force summer of fun and learning. Camp Akal…
