Briarcliff High School Boys Indoor Track Relay Team Smashes School Record 

Briarcliff High School track relay team members Bryant Seok (junior), Mark Rogers (senior), Kyle Phillips (freshman) and Jack Sendek (junior) shattered the 4X mile school record by 19 seconds, running a time of 18:55.89 at The Jim Mitchell Invitational […] Read more »

Briarcliff’s Food Service Director Hosts Discovery Kitchens at Briarcliff Schools

Candida Canfield, Briarcliff’s food service director, invited Chartwell’s K-12 Schools, a team of chefs, dietitians and operators who cook and serve meals with fresh, healthy ingredients in more than 4,000 […] Read more »

Puppet Show Helps Irvington’s Main Street School Students Celebrate Differences  

A special musical puppet show, Addy and Uno, highlighting characters with disabilities and stressing the importance of inclusion, entertained fourth and fifth graders at Main Street School on December 12.  “The play is about […] Read more »

Irvington Main Street School names Spelling Bee champions

Fourth and fifth graders competed to claim the title of Main Street School’s best spellers during the 13th annual Spelling Bee championship, held in the auditorium on Jan. 10. Eighty-three […] Read more »

Congratulations to the January 2020 River Journal Pet of the Month 

Meet Bryson.   Bryson is a 5 month old Australian Labradoodle. He comes to his family from outside New Haven, CT (near Yale making him a very smart puppy). He loves his bones and squeaky toys, especially […] Read more »

Pocantico Hills School to Add Therapy Dog to Staff 

Duke, an American Staffordshire terrier mix, was four months old when Mario Suarez, a therapeutic support center teacher at Pocantico, and his family found him at the North Shore Animal League America shelter in Nassau […] Read more »

BHS Girl Up Club Raises Funds and Awareness

The Briarcliff High School Girl Up Club held an “unbelievably successful” event at Value Drugs in Briarcliff Manor in December according to Karla Constantinou, BHS Science teacher and club advisor.  The drive, benefitting women and […] Read more »

Letter to the Editor: Everytown for Gun Safety

To the Editor: From February 1-8, 2020 Everytown for Gun Safety will honor the second annual National Gun Violence Survivors Week, to mark the approximate time that gun deaths in […] Read more »

Teatown to Celebrate Sixteenth Annual EagleFest 

Teatown Hudson River EagleFest, the annual festival celebrating the bald eagle’s winter migration to the Hudson River, will soar once again on February 8. The event takes place from 9am to […] Read more »

Ossining Reading “Detectives” Call on First Graders for Clues 

Super-Secret Detective No. 1 and Super-Secret Detective No. 2 – aka Ossining Superintendent Dr. Raymond Sanchez and Director of Elementary Teaching and Learning Carrieann Sipos – took Brookside School by storm on December 6.   Wearing Sherlock Holmes-style […] Read more »