Several local students won $3,000 scholarships from the  Louis G. Nappi Construction Labor-Management Scholarship Program. Here is information provided by the program:

After more than a year of planning and development, the scholarship committee of a construction management and labor coalition announced this month that it has made its inaugural award to six students who will [...]

Crews were out at Concordia College in Bronxville filming a Verizon commercial on Tuesday of last week. According to a school rep, the commercial is airing nationally and appeared on Monday Night Football on ESPN and last night’s American League Championship Series game between the Yankees and Twins on the TBS Network.  The shot below [...]

New Rochelle student Stephanie Henry spent a semester as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives. Here’s the news from Preston High School in the Bronx, where Stephanie is a junior:

Sept. 22, 2009 — While students were gathering last minute school supplies and picking out their clothes for the first days of school, Preston [...]

The Mount Vernon City School District and its two middle schools have been listed as institutions in Good Standing, after a total of five years of being cited for Needing Improvement.

Both the District and AB Davis Middle School were placed on the NYS Education Department’s Needing Improvement list for five years. Longfellow Middle School was [...]

Gov. David Paterson announced today that he vetoed a bill that would have provided $5 million in state lottery aid to the Mount Vernon School District. The governor explained that he vetoed the bill because it would have given funds to a district with an unbalanced budget, and set a “dangerous precedent of encouraging schools [...]

With the goal of bringing the pleasures of summer reading to Mount Vernon children JCY-Westchester Community Partners and the Mount Vernon Public Library have teamed up to provide Summer Reading Buddies, a free summer reading program.

Summer Reading Buddies pairs up volunteers with students in grades K-6 to help them complete their summer reading assignments.

“Summer Reading [...]

Students at Mount Vernon High School created a mural inspired by the book “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines. Four English classes worked with ArtsWestchester artist Tova Snyder to create a mural around the themes in the book.  The fictional story is about a young man in Louisiana in the 1940’s who is [...]

As part of ArtsWestchester’s Arts in Education program, nearly 30 students from Nelson Mandela High School in Mt. Vernon worked with ArtsWestchester artist Jeffrey Schrier to create sculptures of animals that live in the Hudson.  As part of the students’ science curriculum, they worked with Schrier over a seven week period and visited the banks [...]

A quick-thinking Mount Vernon High School teacher saved a 32-pound turtle from a risky situation. Rosemarie Sanders, a science teacher, spotted the turtle on the road and got him to safety. Here is her story:

“Thursday morning I was coming to work.  Upon coming to my exit I saw a large object in the road.  I [...]

Best-selling suspense writer, Carol Higgins Clark, will meet and greet students at two local schools this week. Clark visits Lincoln Elementary School in Mount Vernon today and will be at Tuckahoe Middle School and High School tomorrow afternoon. Clark will share with students a brief history of her family — her mother Mary is also [...]

Mount Vernon school board president Charles Stern has found a new way to deliver school news to city residents. Stern  launched a podcast that can be heard and downloaded on the school district’s Web site. Called the “President’s podcast,” Stern uses the medium to talk about what’s going on in the district and schools, and [...]

The Mount Vernon Knights are holding a free basketball clinic for Bronxville boys, grades 4 through 8, on Sunday as a way to say thanks for the community’s support.

Bronxville residents made generous donations to the Mount Vernon interscholastic sports program after all funding for sports was cut due to budget constraints. The fall and winter [...]