The realest kind of reality TV was seen in Croton-on-Hudson a couple weeks ago. Broadcast on the Zoom channel, it was a Community Conversation on Diversity & Inclusion in our Schools, hosted by the Croton-Harmon school district in alliance with the NYU Steinhardt Center for Strategic... Read more »
This is the month kids look forward to, so they can put on masks and costumes to play pretend in public. I’m a sucker for the playfulness and general weirdness that haunts Halloween. If my surname were... Read more »
Zoom meetings. Zoom schooling. Zoom happy hours. Zoom blind dates. Zoom original plays. Zoom job interviews. Zoom religious services. Zoom fitness classes. Zoom funerals. Zoom weddings. Why not, we thought, a Zoom page... Read more »
At the end of Tuesday, June 30, 2020, George E. Stone, Ed.D. called it a day. After 10 years as Superintendent of Lakeland Central School District, Dr. Stone felt fulfilled enough in what he... Read more »
There is no room for objectivity in art. The whole point of it is to express the artist’s wholly subjective view of the world, and for the audience to interpret that art... Read more »
CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings Read more »
Students Are Experiencing a New Kind of ‘Home’ Room We’re busy at work assembling the April 2020 edition of the combined River Journal/River Journal North. Not surprisingly, there is ample coverage of... Read more »
This is the best of times to be on social media. This is the worst of times to be on social media. If that sounds Dickensian, why not? We’re all living a... Read more »
Chuck Newman is virtually a household name in Peekskill. And for good reasons. One is that his family has been an integral part of the City’s business-and-social fabric for generations. Another reason... Read more »
It’s fascinating how, in times of mutual duress, we self-select silos to inhabit. For the sake of simplicity — if over-generalization — let’s look at binary silos. For example, in one silo... Read more »