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Kate Robinson Apr 29, 2021 A group of seniors poses for a photo underneath balloons at the Old Rochester Regional High School lobby. Photos by: Kate Robinson Kids milling in the lobby before the first class starts. Junior Edward Gonet made the morning announcements on the first day back, as he does most days. Desks are spaced six feet apart in the cafeteria. Students are allowed to remain three feet apart with their masks on in classrooms, like Mr. Kane’s first period math class. Pa...

As enrollment declines in the Old Rochester Regional School District, space has opened up f

Aidan Pollard Jan 20, 2021 Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Michael Nelson updates the ORR School Committee on the ORRHS’s reopening. Despite having the highest total number of covid cases in the district, the Old Rochester Regional High School has begun to allow sports and other after school activities. And district officials say the current partial in-person learning model is working well. “I think that’s an important development for our school community,�...

Aidan Pollard Jan 20, 2021 Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Michael Nelson updates the ORR School Committee on the ORRHS’s reopening. Despite having the highest total number of covid cases in the district, the Old Rochester Regional High School has begun to allow sports and other after school activities. And district officials say the current partial in-person learning model is working well. “I think that’s an important development for our school community,�...

Aidan Pollard Dec 15, 2020 Old Rochester Regional High School students were able to convince the ORR School Committee to let their dual enrollment classes count toward grade point averages at a Dec. 9 meeting.  Dual enrollment classes count toward a student’s transcript, but are take at community colleges rather than with teachers from ORR. Before the motion passed, the courses counted neither toward students’ GPAs nor class rank. Students, supported by Principal Michael Devoll...

Aidan Pollard Dec 15, 2020 Old Rochester Regional High School students were able to convince the ORR School Committee to let their dual enrollment classes count toward grade point averages at a Dec. 9 meeting.  Dual enrollment classes count toward a student’s transcript, but are take at community colleges rather than with teachers from ORR. Before the motion passed, the courses counted neither toward students’ GPAs nor class rank. Students, supported by Principal Michael Devoll...

Old Rochester Regional School District officials addressed a racist instagram account featuring the district’s bulldog mascot. Old Rochester Regional School District administration addressed racist posts from the now-defunct Instagram account @republicanatorr at a Dec. 9 ORR School Committee meeting.  Writing in the posts from the account included racist overtones and allusions to slavery, according to a press release from Superintendent Michael Nelson.  One post from the account that was s...