Ossining Children’s Center Presents College Scholarship Award to Ossining High School Senior and OCC Alumnus

The Ossining Children’s Center’s College Scholarship recognizes an alumnus of the Center who is graduating from high school with an outstanding academic record. This year the award was presented to […] Read more »

Reading Rocks! Pop-Up Book Giveaway Piques Interest before Spring Break

Ossining’s Pop-Up Book Giveaway in April helped students select readings for spring break. Community members, families and teachers donated books. School employees, parents and other volunteers staffed tables and helped […] Read more »

Mathematically Speaking…Ossining Selects New Programs for K-8

Following an extensive review and piloting process, the Board of Education and the Ossining School District selected two rigorous new math instruction programs for students in kindergarten through eighth grade: […] Read more »

New Sing Sing Prison Museum to Unlock the Past

Museums aren’t what they used to be. Once reverential homes for dusty objects in glass cases, they’ve now become places to reconsider dark chapters from the past in a modern […] Read more »

Dale Cemetery Heritage Trail Reaches Completion

The Ossining Historical Cemeteries Conservancy Project Is Open for Walking or Driving The Ossining Historic Cemeteries Conservancy (OHCC) and the Town of Ossining announced the completion of the Dale Cemetery […] Read more »

Local Authors. Local Books: Refuge in Hell

Sing Sing Prison has been an infamous landmark in the Hudson Valley ever since it opened in 1825. Behind the tall, gray walls of this maximum-security prison near the Ossining train station […] Read more »

Milestone for Ossining Brewery

Sing Sing Kill Brewery hosts its One-Year Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, May 26th. The party will please everyone who loves beer, music and barbeque. The event begins at 1PM and continues until 11PM. SSKB […] Read more »

Trail & Tunnel Notes – Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct: Sing Sing Kill Greenway

“Now shall I walk or shall I ride? ‘Ride,’ Pleasure said; ‘Walk,’ Joy replied.”  ― William Henry Davies, Welsh writer and walker  Everyone has favorite spots on the Aqueduct trail, like Irvington’s […] Read more »

Ossining Girls Learn about Cybersecurity, STEM Careers  

Anne M. Dorner Middle School girls held their cell phones in one hand and wrote details of Ariana Grande’s life with the other –everything from the singer’s height and weight […] Read more »

Ossining Encourages Children to Become Lifelong Readers 

The Claremont School in Ossining expanded Reading Week into a month-long celebration in March. Third- and fourth-graders took part in activities each school day including a visit by children’s book author Kirby Larson; Drop Everything and Read; and Wear Your Words […] Read more »