Highland’s school budget passes; Miller and Gilmore win BOE seats
The voters in Highland have spoken by passing the proposed $38.5 million 2013-2014 school budget by a 62 percent majority — 968 in favor to 593 opposed. As for Proposition 2, which called for $200,000 to be spent on security cameras for the district’s bus fleet, the vote passed — 831 in support to 669...
Three candidates view for two Highland School Board positions
Highland voters can expect an experienced group of three candidates to run for the two open school board seats on May 21. This year’s race will pit incumbents Sue Gilmore and Tom Miller against their onetime colleague Vincent Rizzi, a former Highland Board of Education president. In a stunning turnaround, Rizzi lost his seat on...
Highland Educational Foundation works to make an ADA-compliant playground
One dinner at Casa Milanese won’t be like the others — at least if the Highland Educational Foundation has anything to do with it. The Snow Ball Dinner on March 9 will go toward making Highland Elementary School’s playground fair and fun for children in wheelchairs or with other disabilities. Parents and educators at the...
Highland High School to stage “Schoolhouse Rock Live!”
The sweet sounds of well-loved educational music will soon burst forth from the stage at Highland High School, when students star in a production of “Schoolhouse Rock Live!” this weekend. Lynda Keech, the director of the musical, said her students had made her proud for the progress they’d made during rehearsals — which recent winter...
Girls ask for Highland varsity lacrosse team
Coaches, parents and students gathered at Highland High School last week to ask for a little gender equity — at least when it comes to lacrosse. Right now, girls from Highland have the opportunity to play lacrosse up until they get to high school on a town-sponsored team. But once they graduate to Highland High...
Changes await students and teachers in Highland, New Paltz
This week, students in Highland and New Paltz return to the classrooms for another year of lessons, textbooks and tests. But 2012-2013 will be a year of many changes — teachers and principals will get new performance evaluations, and students will learn in a different way with the implementation of the federal Common Core standards....
Highland schools shuffle the deck on leadership
Highland’s school board swore in new members Mike Reid and Mike Bakatsias on July 10, during their re-organizational meeting. They also voted to promote experienced trustees Al Barone and Sue Gilmore to the position of board president and vice president, respectively. Because voters swung for newcomers instead of incumbents, the spring election had the effect...
Highland High School graduates 130
That seemed to be the theme running through the Highland High School 2012 commencement exercises…”Family”. From High School principal Pete Harris through salutatorian Carl Adamczak to valedictorian Xiang Ying Shuai and winding up with guest speaker Scott MacFarlane from the Class of 1994. It was all about family — parents, teachers, brothers and sisters, cousins...
New Paltz and Highland best of the best for Spring sports 2012
Cora Butler capped one remarkable season by winning the State Division 2 long jump title with a best-ever 18-3, which was made more dramatic by the fact that she fouled on her first jump and jumped “only” 16-0 on her second. So, talk about pressure for the top-seeded D-2 long jumper, when she just put...
Highland High to hold Love Out Loud scholarship benefit
The Love Out Loud Scholarship Fund will hold its annual fundraising event on Wednesday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Highland High School (HHS) Auditorium on Pancake Hollow Road in Highland. Tickets for the special entertainment benefit are $10. “The scholarship is called Love Out Loud, and I’ve been giving it the last four...
Highland High School inducts 29 students into the National Honor Society
Recently, Highland High School (HHS) celebrated the induction of 29 students into HHS’s Terralta Chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS), including 23 sophomores, four juniors and two seniors. The 2012 inductees joined the current membership of 48 students, comprised of 27 juniors and 21 seniors. The National Honor Society was established in 1921 to...
Highland High seniors prep for prom with reenactment of fatal DWI wreck
It was a sobering event, to say the least: All Highland High School seniors who planned on attending the prom this past weekend first had to sit through a film, made in Australia, showing gory reenactments of vehicular accidents caused by someone being intoxicated from alcohol and/or drugs. While students watched the perils of making...