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MASSENA — The Massena Central School District’s Finance Committee will be meeting on Monday to finalize its budget recommendations before presenting it to the Board of Education for approval that night. “In their budget proposal, the state government came through with significant funding for schools as did the federal government through stimulus legislation,” Superintendent Patrick Brady said in his latest Board of Education update. One of the concerns for superintendents has been how much Foundation Aid, their basic operating aid, would be received for the 2021-22 budget....

MASSENA — A public hearing and public forum are on the schedule for Thursday night’s Massena Central School Board of Education meeting. A public hearing will be held on the district’s Communicable Disease Pandemic Plan and a public forum will be held to update the community on the district’s draft 2021-22 budget. Also scheduled are discussions about the Fall II sports season, which begins Monday, and plans to resume the school musical in May. Superintendent Patrick Brady said the public hearing is required since the Communicable Disease Pandemic Plan will be an addendum to...

MASSENA — A Madison Elementary School teacher has been named the winner of a teaching award in a competition that’s open to kindergarten through eighth grade Earth science teachers throughout the United States. Darcie Fregoe, a sixth-grade Earth science and social studies teacher, was the 2021 recipient of the American Geosciences Institute Edward C. Roy Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching. “We had a faculty meeting and this gentleman was presenting at the meeting and I had no clue it was for me. I didn’t think I had a chance. It’s the best of the b...

Hudson Reporter North Bergen begins the transition back to classrooms Some students will likely be back in the classroom on April 19 × Dr. Solter said the number of days and hours that schools will operate in the classrooms is yet to be determined. North Bergen public schools will begin transitioning to learning in the classrooms, Superintendent of Schools Dr. George Solter announced in a video message. While the district planned to move to hybrid instruction, the shift was pushed back due to a variety of factors from the state of COVID-19 in the township, to delays in the vacci...

MASSENA — Although one contractor will be doing roof work on multiple schools this summer as part of the second phase of the Massena Central School District’s $49.6 million capital project, officials have opted to sign two contracts rather than one. One contract covers work at Nightengale Elementary School, Massena Central High School and J.W. Leary Junior High School. The second contract covers work at Jefferson and Madison elementary schools. “After much discussion, we decided to go with two separate contracts. Though it is more paperwork for all involved, the two contracts m...