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5/30/24 RT Panel
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College Malia DuMont, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Hartwick College and Co-Director of Hartwick College's new Institute of Public Service Laurel Elder, Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and rising senior majoring in Human Rights at Bard College Svitlana Kukharuk.
Voters approve school budgets across region’s three districts
Voters in the region’s three school districts (Millbrook, Pine Plains and Webutuck) cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21, approving of their respective school spending plans for the 2024-25 fiscal year. All candidates for positions on the various school boards were seated. Additional budget propositions for capital expenditures won approval...
Almost a century later, student revisits her one-room schoolhouse
MILLERTON — Mary Leitch was retracing her steps as she entered the one-room Irondale Schoolhouse on Saturday, May 25. At 101 years old, Leitch, of Amenia, has rich memories of the time she and her sister Florence sat in class next to each other in a double seat, including when the teacher’s husband would come in and play Santa for the children.
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