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Flush from last fall's state spelling bee victory, the students at NewBrook Elementary School in Newfane are not resting on their laurels.
For the second straight year, sixth-grader William Jagiello, 12, of Williamsville, went to St. Michael's College in Colchester on March 16 to compete at the state level in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
In finishing sixth in the competition, the tall, alert, and pleasantly self-confident Jagiello surpassed the high goal he had set for himself this year.
“I was done for the past two years in the second round,” Jagiello explained, “and my goal was to get past that.”...
Look for a new pizza-plus operation at the crossroads of Routes 30 and 35 in mid-July. After several years of uncertainty and variable hours under the last lessee, John Papadopoulos of Brattleboro, the site of the former Townshend Corner Store has been bought outright by Spiro Leristas, the owner...
If it's been a while since you've hung out with 11th- and 12th-graders, or if most of what you now know about students that age comes through the media, talk to Linda Rood. Rood teaches English to juniors and seniors at Leland & Gray Union High School, and she...
Last Wednesday's big snowstorm kept the turnout down, but 227 voters in the five towns in the Leland & Gray Union High School district nevertheless braved the elements and approved a more than $6.3-million budget for the 2011-12 school year by a 156-71 margin. Turnout last year was 354. In 2009, it was 344. A smaller snowstorm the day before the vote kept people away from the district meeting, which drew about the same number of school board and district...
Linda Rood has taught English to every high school grade at Leland & Gray since 1988. Before that, she taught English on Long Island. She has nearly 30 years in the trenches, doesn't know if she'll retire soon (although she now qualifies for her pension), and teaches with the intensity of a novice and the engagement of someone who loves her job. English classes are divided into Level 1 (usually college bound) and Level 2 (for students needing a little...
Spiro Leristas grew up in a family of 11 children - five brothers and six sisters. While some of them are not immediately close by - two remain in Greece, for example, and one works as a taxi driver in New York - on weekends, it feels as though all of them are at Village Pizza, eating, talking, planning, gesturing, rolling their eyes, and cooking at their Putney Road establishment, just north of the Route 5 roundabout at Exit 3...
Voters in the Leland & Gray Union High School District towns of Townshend, Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, and Brookline will vote by Australian ballot on Wednesday, Feb. 2, to adopt or reject the 2011-12 budget of $6,328,984. The budget had been previously proposed and approved by a majority of members of the union district school board. Polls will be open in town offices in Brookline and Townshend (9 a.m.), and Jamaica and Windham (10 a.m.). Newfane residents will cast their ballots...
One of the more compelling ways of learning locally about Siberian huskies and the sleds they pull with you in them is to book a ride at Husky Works Mushing Company on Route 100 in West Wardsboro. For example, how many know that mushers are people, not dogs? You learn that right away at Husky Works. Or that Siberian huskies are smaller than the Alaskan sled dog most familiar from the Iditarod race, although there have been Siberian husky teams...
