Students in Ms. Castillo and Mrs. Bitjeman’s second-grade class at the George L. Cooke Elementary School had “Tea with My Special Someone” last week. The students each picked someone special in their life and used their names to make an acrostic poem. The students invited their special someone to join them in class, and read …
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Check out this video of Robert J. Kaiser Middle School seventh grade students enjoying their field trip to the Sharpe Reservation in Fishkill, NY.
Please be advised that if you attended either spring concert at the Monticello High School on May 9 or 10, you may have been exposed to COVID-19. Monticello Central School District engages in group level contact tracing. Unlike individual level contact tracing, we do not definitively identify only those individuals who are within six feet …
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Kenneth L. Rutherford fifth-grade students celebrated the completion of their Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program with a graduation ceremony on Friday, May 6. According to the program’s website, DARE is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug …
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Courtesy of the Monticello Athletics Department: The Varsity Baseball and Softball teams played this past weekend at the annual Sullivan West Bulldog tournament in Jeffersonville. The four-team tournament was scheduled to be played on Saturday May 7, but due to bad weather was postponed to Sunday May 8 Mother’s Day. The weather on Mother’s Day …
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Monticello Central School District received a “blast from the past” thanks to the donation of a photo from Monticello residents Judy and Gary Siegel. The photo is of Monticello High School’s 1928 graduating class and was taken when the students were on their senior trip to Mount Vernon almost 100 years ago. The photo was …
Seventh-grade students in Bill Oefelein’s Tech 7 class at Robert J. Kaiser Middle School have been working on LED projects. To create these projects, they build a series circuit, complete with a battery-powered on and off switch, and solder the joints and wires to secure the piece. Then they stain and clear coat the wooden …
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The budget edition of the Monticello Central School District’s print newsletter, The Panther Post, will be arriving in residents’ mailboxes beginning May 10. Please keep an eye out for the newsletter, which contains important information about the 2022-23 proposed school budget. Can’t wait? Read the digital copy online
The Monticello Board of Education presented Board Awards to several individuals at its May 5 meeting, in acknowledgement of their service to the district. Monticello music teachers Mike Mingo and Andrew Verdino nominated all of the recipients in recognition of their contributions to the Sullivan County Music Educators’ Association’s All-County Music Festival, which was hosted …
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It’s Monday in Monticello — time for Superintendent Evans’ weekly update to the Monticello community. In this episode: our MHS spring concert series schedule, a community night with critical conversations, our upcoming budget vote on May 11 and the answer to the question, “What happens if the budget does not pass?”
