Goodermote And Fiske Elected To BCS Board

by Thaddeus Flint Voters in the Berlin Central School District Tuesday re-elected School Board President Gina Goodermote, and voted out Board Member Rachel Finney of Stephentown, replacing her with Katie Fiske of Petersburgh. The budget and two resolutions all passed easily.

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Profiles Of The Candidates For The BCS BOE

by Thaddeus Flint On May 15, from noon to 9 pm, residents of the Berlin Central School District will go to the polls to vote on the $17,438,900 budget which entails a 1.98% increase in the tax levy, District taxpayers will also vote on two propositions.

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BCS Elementary School Properties Appraised At Zero

by David Flint The market value of the Stephentown and Grafton Elementary Schools has been determined to be zero. At a sparsely attended public hearing Tuesday evening on the 2012-13 Berlin School District budget and the upcoming May 15 voting, Business Manager William Burke noted that the property appraisal reports had been received from the [...]

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BCS Bond: Déjà Vu All Over Again

by David Flint Bond authorization for the Capital Project approved by Berlin School District voters in December came up once again at the School Board meeting on Tuesday and once again failed to get the required super-majority fifth vote. Board Members Gina Goodermote, Frank Zwack, Rachel Finney and James Willis voted in favor of proceeding [...]

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BCS Adopts Budget With A 1.98% Tax Levy Increase

by Thaddeus Flint The Berlin School Board adopted a $17,438,900 budget for 2012-2013 at the workshop meeting Tuesday, and it will now go to the residents for their approval. The Capital Project bond authorization, however, though already approved by the residents, was once again blocked for the fourth time by three Board members who remain [...]

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Touch Tank Helps Students Learn Marine Biology

by David Flint Excited second-graders from Berlin Elementary School got a chance to learn something about marine biology last week. On Thursday morning they gathered around fish tanks in the Middle/High School library as high school students explained about sea life. This was hands on learning. They could actually reach in the tanks and feel [...]

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BCS Still At An Impasse In Third Vote On Bond Financing

by Thaddeus Flint For the third week in a row the Berlin Central School Board meeting opened with a vote on the authorization of a $5.1 million bond for the Capital Project. Once again School Superintendent Dr. Stephen Young reminded the Board that this project is “for the benefit of the student.” The buildings, especially [...]

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Young Shocked By BCS Bond Impasse

by Thaddeus Flint At last week’s Berlin School Board meeting, the Board failed to vote to authorize a bond of $5.1 million for the renovation of its school buildings and for bringing the Berlin School District closer to School Superintendant Dr. Stephen Young’s vision of a 21st century school district. Board President Gina Goodermote and [...]

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BCS Board Fails To Authorize Capital Project Financing

by David Flint Although Berlin School District taxpayers voted in December to approve floating a bond of $5 million to fix up school buildings, when it came time for the School Board to actually authorize the financing, the votes were lacking. At their meeting on Tuesday the School Board voted 4-3 to authorize the bonding, [...]

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Stephentown Notifies BCSD Of Interest In Elementary School Property

by Thaddeus Flint “We are really interested, definitely,” said Stephentown Town Supervisor Larry Eckhardt to the Berlin School Board at Tuesday’s School Board meeting.

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