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Berlin School Dist.

Letter To The Editor – BCSD Teacher Contracts Up For Renewal

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BCSD Teacher Contracts Up For Renewal:  Need Our Awareness And Input
To the Editor:
Why is it that the Berlin School Board and the Eastwick Press, although being most aggressive in communicating to the public about relatively peripheral Berlin School District issues like lead paint and the periodic Kabuki dance over the school budget votes, why is it that they utterly fail to communicate with the voters about the one issue that vastly more significantly affects the taxes we pay, namely the impending contract negotiations with the Berlin Teachers Association?
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D.A.R.E. Graduation At BES

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submitted by Toni Dolan
Berlin Elementary fifth grade students recently celebrated their involvement in the D.A.R.E. Program with a special graduation ceremony. The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a program for teaching kids the skills necessary to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence. The program was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and has been part of our elementary program for about 18 years.
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Berlin High School Teachers Take Biotechnology Workshop At HVCC

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Berlin High School teachers Steve Mellor and Matthew Christian were among 19 high school science teachers from around the Capital District who participated in a two day biotechnology training workshop sponsored by Hudson Valley Community College on January 26-27 at Averill Park High School.
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BCS Trip To The Lion King

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Plans are in the works for BCS MS/HS students to attend the March 17 2 pm matinee of the musical The Lion King at Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady. We will be leaving school at 10:30 am and returning by 7 pm. The cost is $38 for students and adults/chaperones. If you are interested in going permission slips can be picked up in the Berlin HS main office. Space is limited.
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NYS Aid To BCS Drops By $1.2 Million

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by David Flint
Governor Cuomo’s budget submitted to the State Legislature last week would cut State aid to the Berlin Central School District by $1.2 million. That’s a drop in funding of 13%. Interim Superintendent Brian Howard warned at the last School Board meeting that the proposed cut would be severe. He thought it might even be as high as last year’s slashing of $634,000. As it turns out, Cuomo is thinking bigger.
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Letter To The Editor – BOE Member Supports The Bus Drivers

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To the Editor:
After being made aware of the situation on 1/19/11 with the  bus drivers deciding not to drive due to the icy weather that morning, I now have had the opportunity to review all the facts that have been shared with me. This included having the opportunity to hear both sides of the story from individuals who were directly involved. [Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – BOE Member Supports The Bus Drivers

Deaflympic Snowboard Team Member Contacts Berlin Central School’s InvenTeam

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submitted by Jeanne Casatelli, Communications Specialist, Questar III
On January 12, a member of the U.S. Deaflympic Snowboard Team contacted Berlin Central School’s InvenTeam about their invention, according to their teacher and facilitator Dawn Wetmore.
The team’s idea is an adaptive sports device (ASD) that will allow hearing impaired and deaf persons to ski, snowboard, rollerblade, jog and bicycle by warning them of approaching traffic from behind so they can avoid collisions.
“We were surprised and honored to hear from Jeff Pollock, who volunteered to be our deaf athlete test pilot,” Wetmore said. “As we have not patented the invention, we explained to Jeff that we can’t send it yet but will keep him informed of our progress.”
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