Amity Middle School In Orange Hosts Fundraiser Breakfast To Support Mariposa Dr Foundation
Seventh grade students on Team X at Amity Middle School in Orange hosted a fundraiser breakfast on January 11th to support the Mariposa DR Foundation, an organization that aims to provide a higher quality education for young girls in the Dominican Republic. Photograph taken by Eleanor Stephens
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Amity Middle School In Orange National Geography Bee Finalists
Congratulations to the National Geography Bee Finalists from Amity Middle School in Orange! Pictured left to right, front row: Andie Napolitano; Michael Kwolek; School champion, Matthew Mcleod; Simran Jain; Rocco Izzo Pictured left to right, back row: Ryan Burns; Edward Han; Aditi Bhattamishra; Bowen...
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Legacy Strongly Represented In Sacred Heart Academy Class of 2023
Legacies from the incoming Class of 2023 were recognized this winter at the annual Incoming Freshmen Orientation. Nine members of the class have mothers who are alumnae and three members of the class have grandmothers who are alumnae. Seventeen class members have one or more sisters who are current st...
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Elmer F. Manley Memorial College Scholarships Available
Ansantawae Masonic Lodge #89, is offering two “Medical Scholarships” for $1,000 each to a college student studying counseling, social services, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, medicine, social work, gerontology or pharmacology and having completed a minimum of two semesters in their chosen field, and m...
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Lucy Scillia Scholarship Available To Graduating Orange Seniors
Applications are now open for the Lucia Scillia Scholarship, a $1,000 award sponsored by the Friends of the Case Memorial Library. The Lucy Scillia Scholarship is available to a graduating high school senior who is a resident of Orange and is continuing their education at an accredited institution of h...
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Project Perseverance At Turkey Hill School
Project Perseverance is underway at Turkey Hill School! A group of students from Student Council did an amazing job on Friday, February 1st presenting a student led, interactive kick off assembly to promote the importance of perseverance in life. Highlights from the assembly feature original videos de...
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Student News 3/9/19
Achievements Kutztown University Kutztown, PA—Danielle Nordyk of Orange, CT, is one of 20 student-athletes on the 2019 Kutztown University softball team. Dean’s List Brandeis University. The Brandeis University School of Arts and Sciences has placed Rachel Marcus on the Fall 2018 Dean’s List in recognit...
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Parents Learn Dangers of Vaping at Amity High School
The dangers—and unknowns—of vaping were the focus of an Amity High School PTSO presentation for parents last month. “We don’t have long-term data to know what is going to happen to people who are vaping, but we do know what it does to mice and it’s not pretty,” said Yale researcher Tricia Dahl, who als...
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Proposal To Merge School Districts With Nearby Towns Causes Concern Among Residents
With over 1,000 new bills before the General Assembly in the January session, one in particular is causing quite a stir in the tri-town BOWA community: Senator Martin Looney’s Proposed Bill No. 454, An Act Concerning the Creation of Regional School Districts. If the bill were to pass as is (with redis...
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Republican Lawmakers Oppose Bill to Break Up Amity Regional School District
Area lawmakers are expressing their concerns this week about a Democrat proposal to regionalize school districts based on the current Probate Judge map, which means Amity Regional School District #5 would be broken up. Under the bill, S.B. 454, the Orange School district would be merged with Milford;...
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