Annual Food Drive Yields Record Amount of Donations

Sometimes one act of kindness can reverberate across great distances and affect many. This year’s food drive reached a whopping 800 pounds – the equivalent of over 700 meals for […] Read more »

Finding 50 Countries in Their Own Backyard: Tappan Hill School Tours the EF Culture Fair

Where can first graders in Tarrytown learn how to use chopsticks in China, taste brigadeiro in Brazil, pick up football tips in France, practice Kanji calligraphy in Japan, and join lively dances in Chile just steps […] Read more »

Stepinac High School Students Earn Nearly 100 Advanced Placement Scholar Awards for 2024–25 Academic Year

Archbishop Stepinac High School announced that its students earned nearly 100 Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar designations in the 2025 AP rankings for the 2024–25 academic year, marking another year of […] Read more »

How Can Schools Use SEO To Boost Enrollment Numbers?

Local schools are discovering that visibility is no longer guaranteed just because a building sits in the middle of a neighborhood. Parents often begin their search for the right school […] Read more »

Best-Selling Author and Illustrator Jerry Craft Visits Todd Students

Who we are today is not who we will be in the future. This is the message bestselling author Jerry Craft, who is known for his popular graphic novel “New […] Read more »

Pocantico Students Appreciate Teachers, Resources at Briarcliff High School

The Pocantico Hills Central School District serves students from pre-k through eighth grade. Each year, towards the end of January, the eighth graders at Pocantico (known as POCO) are required […] Read more »

Walter Panas High School inducts 2025 Athletic Hall of Fame Honorees

Walter Panas High School inducted the Athletic Hall of Fame honorees into the 2025 Hall of Fame as part of a half-time ceremony during the Walter Panas-Peekskill football game on […] Read more »

Local Author’s New Children’s Book Brings Democracy to Life 

Tarrytown resident and Presidential Leadership Scholar David Baumwoll has released a new children’s chapter book, Ruthie for the People: Saving Friendship Tree!, which introduces young readers to the core values of democracy through adventure, friendship and community action.  Baumwoll is a lawyer, non-profit leader, civic […] Read more »

Distinguished Briarcliff High School Alumna Offers Life Lessons

One of this year’s recipients of the Briarcliff High School Distinguished Alumni Award, Class of 1965 alumna Elizabeth Rodgers, recently visited the school to unveil her plaque at the Hall […] Read more »

Briarcliff High School Presents: Brave New World

This past summer, some Briarcliff students participated in workshops at the school doing something which has never been done here before: they adapted a book into a play. “Brave New […] Read more »