By Jay Braman Jr.
Students from the Phoenicia Elementary School in the Onteora School District have won first place in their division in the state senate’s 17th annual I*MA*GREEN*NATION contest.
Phoenicia music teacher David Laks in collaboration with fourth-grade teacher Sharon McInerney and her talented class showed its true colors – green – this week when it won the award, a statewide competition sponsored by Senator John J. Bonacic (R/I/C - Mount Hope), that focuses on environmental problems and solutions.
The ONC BOCES, Northern Catskill Occupational Center has released a list of local students who earned Principal’s List and Honor Roll spots for the third quarter of the 2007-2008 school year.
Eun Lee of Margaretville, daughter of Joon Lee and Sunny Lee, was named to the Merit List of Oxford College, the two-year liberal arts division of Emory University located in Oxford, Ga., for the spring 2007 semester.