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MASSENA — The Massena Central School District has started approving appointments for extracurricular activities, with the hope that they can be held when school opens again in September. COVID kept many of the activities from taking place during the 2020-21 school year, Superintendent Patrick Brady noted in an end-of-year report for the district’s board of education. He said some of the extracurricular activities, particularly some of the volunteer ones, did not meet while others met virtually. And, he said, some continued to meet with students and raise funds both virtually and at ...

MASSENA — Anticipating that some students may need extra assistance when school resumes in the fall, the Massena Central School District’s Board of Education has approved the hiring of a second occupational therapist. “The Office of Special Services has requested for us to have another district occupational therapist to meet the needs of our students. Currently, we have one occupational therapist and we also receive services through an outside provider,” Superintendent Patrick Brady said. During a previous meeting, he had presented the board with a list of personnel reques...

MASSENA — The Massena Central School District’s goals for the 2020-21 school year were interrupted by the impact of COVID-19, so district officials will try again for the 2021-22 year. Superintendent Patrick Brady said, rather than focusing on the goals, they were busy with developing reopening plans and reaching out to the community. “Then we implemented that plan through the school year,” he told board of education members Wednesday night. District administrators hold a summer retreat to develop goals for the new school year, and those are presented to the board of educa...

MASSENA — When the Massena Central School Board of Education meets for its annual meeting on Wednesday, three individuals who had been seated at the table won’t have a presence. Board President Patrick Bronchetti did not seek another term, board member Kristy Baker did not win in her re-election bid in May, and student representative Delany Durant graduated on June 25. Taking their place will be board members Timothy Hayes and Patricia Murphy. A student representative will be appointed after school reopens in September. At their final meeting, the departing members received certific...

4 days ago in Features, Trending This illustration provided by Carl Knox depicts a black hole, center, swallowing a neutron star, upper left. The blue lines are gravitational waves, ripples in time and space, which is how astronomers detected the merger, and orange and red areas indicate parts of the neutron star being stripped away. In a report released on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, astronomers say they have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe, _ all in a split-second gulp. (Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne University...