Roxbury

Staff report
Move over New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers aren’t the only team in town who can piece together a colossal come-from-behind victory. Over the weekend, trailing 9-0 against hated rival Boston, the Yanks scored 15 runs over three innings in an historic comeback victory.

By John Bernhardt
Roxbury Central School’s Brittany Keator keeps reaching new heights on the pitching mound this spring. The Rockets’ senior followed back-to-back one-hit shutouts with a pitching rarity, a perfect game Thursday over Delaware League rival Stamford that was called after five innings by the “mercy” rule. Keator’s slice of perfection was the second perfect game thrown by a Roxbury pitcher in the school’s history.

By Pauline Liu
Roxbury and Stamford central schools have embarked on an experiment to share a high school science teacher, since neither school district has the funds to hire a chemistry and physics teacher of its own.

Faced with declining enrollment and reduced state aid, an increasing number of schools in the region are sharing resources, but Roxbury and Stamford appears to be the first to share a teacher in a core subject.  

By Pauline Liu
The Roxbury Central School Board of Education unanimously passed a $9.6 million budget for 2012-2013 school year at its meeting on Wednesday.

The budget, with a tax levy increase of $81,906 or 1.38 percent, comes in just below the state mandated two percent property tax cap.  To the school’s administrators and the school board, it was latest in series of favorable developments for RCS, which included two awards and a $250,000 check to build a tech center.

Below the cap

By Pauline Liu
Monday night’s Roxbury Town Board meeting at the Grand Gorge Civic Center tackled an array of subjects, including reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flood repairs, economic revitalization efforts, water district repairs, and community events.
Four town board members attended the meeting along with Town Attorney Kevin Young and

Highway Superintendent Steve Schuman. Board member Allen Hinkley was absent.

Roxbury — The Greater Roxbury Learning Initiative Corporation (GRLIC) will make a formal donation of $250,000 for the creation of a media and technology center at Roxbury Central School (RCS) on April 11 during the regular board of education meeting beginning at 7 p.m. This donation will cover all of the expense associated with the project and will not require the use of taxpayer dollars.

Roxbury — Roxbury Central School District is one of 112 school districts and Board of Cooperative Educational Services in the state to receive the “2012 School Safety Excellence Award” from the Utica National Insurance Group. Roxbury received a “Titanium with Honors” designation, the highest-level award given.

Utica National officials presented the award at its 32nd annual school safety seminar, one of seven held in the state.

Roxbury — Over 11,000 Science Olympiad students from more than 400 New York State school districts began a six-month quest last fall towards the state finals. Only the best 54 survived the winter regional tournaments to participate in the “states” held at Canisius College in Buffalo last weekend.

By John Bernhardt
For three seasons Roxbury baseball coach Greg Funck has watched his squad evolve. Hard work, a focus on fundamentals, and a healthy dose of patience are all a part of a baseball transformation that Funck believes should result in a Delaware League championship for his team this year.

“We’re setting the bar high this season,” Funck explained when previewing his team. “We want the league. We have a team that can compete with anyone on the baseball field this spring.”

By Pauline Liu
When it comes to encouraging students to read, many parents feel that Roxbury Central School’s program takes the cake.

They mean that, both literally and figuratively. As part of a month-long reading celebration the school held its seventh annual Family Cake Decorating Contest last Wednesday night. It was attended by more than 100 people and it helped to raise about $700 for the reading program known as For the Love of Books or FLOB.