Niskayuna school voters approve $79M in projects
Projects include building an addition to separate 5/6 and 7/8 graders into two buildings
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Students leave their bus and enter Van Antwerp Middle School in Niskayuna in this first day of school in 2007. Voters Feb. 9, 2021 approved a $79 million capital project that will assist in moving fifth and sixth graders to Van Antwerp. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union archive)SKIP DICKSTEIN
NISKAYUNA Niskayuna voters overwhelmingly approved more than $79 million in capital improvements to town schools Tuesday night.
District residents approved two propositions by votes of 1,693-717, and 1,554-858. Voting was done by absentee ballots that were tabulated Tuesday night and in-person at Niskayuna High School on Tuesday.
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Niskayuna High School is one of the few Suburban Council schools remaining that plays football on a grass field.
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If the Niskayuna track and field team gets the OK to host its annual Warrior Classic and some Suburban Council dual meets this spring season, it will not do so due to the deteriorating condition of its track, and has plans to use Schenectady’s nearby facility instead.
That was the plan last season, too, before the campaign was erased because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I don’t think our track has been touched in the last 15 years. It’s supposed to be done every seven or eight years. That’s two cycles,” Niskayuna track and cross country coach Jason DeRocco said. “In a lot of places, blacktop shows through. If we host live duals, we’ll go to Schenectady. If we do it virtual, we will not be able to use lane one for anything.”
From Niskayuna childhood, to Israel s first female rabbi
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Niskayuna native Kinneret Shiryon was infinitely patient as a child when her playmates would ask her to explain various aspects of Judaism. It was good training for the woman who became Israel s first female rabbi.contributed
Kinneret Shiryon is a hometown heroine who attended Craig Elementary and Van Antwerp Middle School in Niskayuna before her pioneering path took her to Israel. There, she became Israel’s first female rabbi.
This month, she visited the B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany via a Zoom session and traced her trailblazing path.
Born Sandra Levine, Shiryon is a youthful and energetic 65. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981. And she established her own congregation, Kehillat YOZMA, the first non-Orthodox congregation to receive funding from Israel in the late 1990s. It’s also home to the first Reform day school to receive