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HFCS Students Visit HACA Food Pantry Ahead Of Empty Bowls

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submitted by Brian Bushner
Students in Megan Conner’s Ceramics classes have been hard at work crafting bowls for the Empty Bowls event happening in the high school cafeteria on April 16 starting at 6 pm. The event is designed to tie art with hunger awareness and benefits the Hoosick Area Church Association (HACA) food pantry.
Diane Hosterman, HACA Director, gave the students and Conner a tour of the facility, explaining how the process works and how many people are served by the food pantry. [Read more…] about HFCS Students Visit HACA Food Pantry Ahead Of Empty Bowls

Antiques And Art Discovery Day At Tech Valley High School

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An antiques and art discovery day will be held to benefit the Tech Valley High School Parent Activities Council (PAC) on Saturday, April 16. The event is open to the public from 9 am to 6 pm. Antique, art and collectible experts from The Appraisers Road Show will hold the event at Tech Valley High School (TVHS), which is located at 246 Tricentennial Drive in Albany on the campus of the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. No appointments are needed. [Read more…] about Antiques And Art Discovery Day At Tech Valley High School

Third Annual Isabel McGuire Memorial Beard-Off Raises More Than $1,300 For Scholarship Fund

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submitted by Brian Bushner
Six members of the Hoosick Falls Central School faculty and staff have been growing beards since November to help raise money for a great cause, The Isabel McGuire Memorial Scholarship. Students in grades 7-12 can purchase raffle tickets for which teacher they would like a chance to “shave,” which is an opportunity for the students to shave humorous and creative patterns, shapes, and designs into the beards. [Read more…] about Third Annual Isabel McGuire Memorial Beard-Off Raises More Than $1,300 For Scholarship Fund

Hoosac School Trimester II Honor Roll

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[private]HIGH HONORS
Benjamin Adrion (Petersburgh, NY), Alexis Avramtchev (Canada), Sibei Chen (China), Felicia Harris (Roscoe, NY), William Kennedy (Eagle Bridge, NY), Aleksandar Kirilov (Serbia), Julia Kopala (Bennington, VT), Yuqiao Li (China), Andrew Lusignan (Canada), Chengyang Miao (China), Seung Jun Pai (Korea), Daisy Perez (Eagle Bridge, NY), Taylor Schnoop (Hoosick Falls, NY), Hanjing Shi (China), Benjamin Viens (Canada), Kaixi Wan (China), Stephen Yetto (Bennington, VT), Sanding Yi (China), Hao Han Zhang (China), Yuejia Zhu (China)
HONORS
William Belec (Canada), Yan Bouchard (Canada), Nikoloz Bulashvili (Serbia), Riley Burns (Petersburgh, NY), Chuyun Chen (China), William Daniel (Canada), Jingjing Fan (China), Sophia Gocio (Saratoga Springs, NY), Wei Huang (China), Djordje Jaksic (Serbia), Anna Keane (Norway), Hyo Mun Kim (Korea), Brandon Kloc (Petersburgh, NY), Xiang Lu (China), Ling Ma (China), Huiqin Mao (China), Samuel Mix (Canada), Ying Pei (China), Milos Popovic (Serbia), Mengjia Qi (China), Marcus Richardson (Elmont, NY), Vincent Rousseau (Canada), Casim Shaikh (Canada), Binghang Sheng (China), Andrija Sreckovic (Serbia), Dapeng Sun (China), Miho Suzuki (China), Mikael Vallerand (Canada), Shadaysia Walton (Albany, NY), Yuelin Wang (China), Xin Wen (China), Yijia Wu (China)[/private]