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CLIFTON PARK (March 6) -- Some Koda Middle School students are receiving lessons in sewing -- and in helping others. The 7th-graders are learning how to sew in their family and consumer sciences (FACS) class by creating quilts for children who could use some extra comforting. The 10 community ser
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ALBANY (Feb. 26) -- Clifton Park native Amy Tighe, a junior majoring in public policy at the University at Albany, has been selected to participate in the 2010 Campus Leaders Today, Community Leaders Tomorrow (CLT2) program. CLT2 helps college students across the country learn the leadership and
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CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 22) -- A great idea, perfect timing and a strong team effort enabled Shenendehowa high school students to win a $77,137 grant to set up a composting program for the school district. The program aims to start in the high schools by getting students and teachers to dump their bio
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 13) -- Rehearsals have begun for the Shenendehowa High School Musical Company’s production of “Anything Goes,” which will be performed March 18-20 at 7:30 p.m. in High School East. Set primarily on a luxury liner from Manhattan to London in 1934, this musical farce has ha
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CLIFTON PARK (Nov. 19) -- Shenendehowa senior Kym Zlogar is so used to seeing "The Look" that she has made it a big part of her college admission essays. It's the look serious adults give her when she tells them plans to study acting in college and make a career of it. "I chalk it up to people
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CLIFTON PARK (Nov. 7) -- Shenendehowa School District superintendent Oliver Robinson's job is a balancing act. Balancing the requirements of gifted and special needs students. Balancing parents' demand for better education with taxpayers' demands for lower bills. Now he faces his biggest balancin
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CLIFTON PARK (Nov. 6) -- The Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum -- the nation's only 100 percent traveling museum, a road show that visits schools, libraries and the like -- likes it when teachers have their students prepared for a classroom visit. They like it even more when everyone learns somethi
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BALLSTON SPA (Oct. 19) -- Forget car washes and bake sales. When some Ballston Spa students were seeking to raise funds for their senior class, they decided on something more dreadful and dramatic. Something not for the faint of heart. A haunted house and Halloween carnival. One that comes in 2 v
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BALLSTON SPA (Oct. 13) -- Many of the 1,500 schoolchildren who visited Brookside Museum's annual "Native New York" education program on field trips during the past three weeks came home so excited they wished they could take their families. On Saturday, Oct. 17, they can. The program about Native
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CLIFTON PARK (Oct. 7) -- See Dick read. See Jane read. See Spot listen. Listen, Spot, listen. Listen to Dick and Jane read. OK, the children aren't named Dick and Jane, and the dog's name is Kasey. But she does listen to children read every month or so at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library.
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HALFMOON (Jan. 20) -- With the economy as bad as it is, you would think local governments would do what they could to he...
CLIFTON PARK -- Imagine a classroom full of preschoolers minding their manners -- and having fun doing it. Welcome to...
WATERFORD -- The Friends of the Waterford Library might be a small group, but it has big plans for the upcoming year. ...
