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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 8:45 am
Weather advisories are in effect across the Catskills this morning, as snow and freezing rain make for a slick commute on local roads. The slippery stuff is expected to shift over to rain by noon.
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - 4:00 pm
The Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on one of three possible reconfiguration plans for the district on February 28. Two of the proposed plans call for the closing of the Phoenicia Elementary School, either with clustering of the elementary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 11:25 am
Photo by Flickr user Roger Karlsson. Published under Creative Commons license.
It's a familiar story in rural upstate New York: A small-town school, once bustling and full of life, is slowly being drained of its students, forcing a community to make... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 11:08 am
The hour of decision approaches for the Onteora School Board, which is facing a choice later this month on which money-saving reconfiguration plan it should put in place for its elementary schools.
Among the three options before the Board is one that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 - 1:18 pm
On Tuesday, the Onteora Central School district held yet another meeting to discuss the planned reconfiguration of its three elementary schools, which could result in the closing of the Phoenicia School or the re-shuffling of grade levels among the... Read more
