What's New?
Both Harry Hoag Elementary School and the
junior/senior high school will be closed on Friday, May 23 unless
the district's final emergency day has to be used before that date.
Residents to vote on budget , school board
District residents
will go to the polls on May 20 to vote on the proposed $17,265,000
school budget for 2008-09. This reflects a 4.99 percent increase in
spending and a 1.89 percent increase in the amount to be raised by
local property taxes. Voting takes place from 1-9 p.m. in
Harry Hoag gym.
BUDGET
BROCHURE
BUDGET
NOTICE
Also, four district
residents are on the ballot for three seats on the Fort Plain
Central School Board of Education: Ann Jenks, Todd McFee, Robyn
Cutspec, and David Fredericks. All candidates were given the
opportunity to make a brief statement (maximum of 100 words) in
support of their candidacy.
CANDIDATE STATEMENTS
PARP using humor to
encourage reading
Parent s
as Reading Partners program is in full swing at Harry Hoag
Elementary School. The program unofficially began April 30 with
performances of “Bad Kitty,” a book by Nick Bruel, in the
school gym. PARP began May 2 and will continue to May 30. This
year's theme is humor.
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Students test fast food for
nutrition content
Is fast food healthy food for teenagers?
Seventh grade Home and Career Skills students at Fort Plain Junior
High School conducted their own study to find out the answer to that
question.
MORE..
Scholarship winners
named
High School
Principal Deborah Larrabee has announced that seniors Eric Kuntzsch,
Brittani MacFadden, and Meagan Kane have been awarded Scholarships
for Academic Excellence by the New York State Education Department.
MORE..
Baseball team in Florida
After a year of major
fundraising efforts, the Fort Plain Hilltopper Varsity Baseball team
boarded a plane on April 10 to play at the Disney Wide World of
Sports Complex in sunny Florida.
MORE.
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Capital project vote recap
& projected
timeline
District
residents turned out in miserable weather Feb. 12 to approve the
$17.3 million capital project by a vote of 185 to 124. The project
calls for construction a new bus garage; a number of educational,
safety, structural, and energy improvements at Harry Hoag Elementary
School; reconfiguring the traffic loop and parking at Harry Hoag;
construction a three-room addition at the junior /senior high
school; and replacement of the West Street steps.
Timeline and more
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