At Special Meeting BCSD Board Votes To Accept Barter Proposals For Empty Buildings

by David Flint The Berlin School District has decided to seek specific proposals from the Grafton Fire District and the Stephentown Town Board for taking over ownership of the closed elementary school properties in those towns. School Board President Gina Goodermote, having failed to get approval two weeks ago to hold a referendum in March [...]

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BCS Plan To Give Away School Buildings Is Tabled

by Thaddeus Flint A vote by the Berlin School Board on whether to offer its vacant elementary schools to the Town of Stephentown and to the Grafton Fire District failed to pass Wednesday at the monthly School Board meeting in Cherry Plain. Board President Gina Goodermote has been leading the charge to rid the District [...]

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Emergency Service Concerns Brought To The BCS Board

by Thaddeus Flint First responders from the Berlin Rescue Squad and the Berlin Volunteer Fire Company were present at the Berlin Central School District’s December Board meeting Tuesday in response to a lack of response from the Board on whether to allow responders who also work at the schools to respond to emergency calls in [...]

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Notice Of BCS Vote Count Correction

from Superintendent Young’s Office It has come to our attention that there was a clerical error in reporting the results of the December 13, 2011, referendum on the capital project for the schools of the Berlin Central School District. This inadvertent error does not affect the outcome of the vote – we are pleased that [...]

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Kelsey O’Dell – VFW Voice Of Democracy

by David Flint Kelsey O’Dell, daughter of Lecia and Larry O’Dell of Petersburgh, has been selected as the winner of the Berlin High School Voice of Democracy Essay Contest. Since 1947 the Voice of Democracy has been the  premier scholarship program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Each year more than 50,000 high school students [...]

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Kayleigh Corrado – DAR Good Citizen

by David Flint Kayleigh Corrado, daughter of Jodi and Richard Corrado of Cherry Plain, has been selected by the Berlin High School faculty and senior class as the DAR Good Citizen.

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BCS Capital Plan Passes By Wide Margin

by David Flint Berlin School District voters have approved a plan to renovate the school buildings at Berlin and Cherry Plain at an estimated cost of $6.8 million. The count in Tuesday’s referendum was 373 Yes versus 173 No. The vote authorizes spending $1.8 million from an existing capital reserve fund and borrowing up to [...]

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Berlin H.S. Basic Woodworking Class Donate Toys

Berlin High School’s Basic Woodworking class presented wooden toys to Jane Gazelone for the Berlin Chapter of the Capital District Beginnings program.  Students worked on their wooden toys as a community service learning project under the direction of Technology Education teacher Dawn Wetmore.

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Hearing On BCS Capital Plan Draws Few

by David Flint A week before residents will be voting on whether to spend $6.8 million to fix up two school buildings in the Berlin Central School District, it was surprising that so few turned out on December 5 for a public hearing on the project. Only a handful showed up earlier in the evening [...]

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Letter To The Editor – Fix The Problems

To the Editor: First of all, I have to agree with Mr. Nash. We do have serious health, safety and ADA compliance issues in this district. That is where it ends. These problems are not from neglect. Many times referendums have been drawn up to correct the problems. They have always been voted down.

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