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The Bedford Audubon Society has announced that it will award its Marty McGuire Scholarship to Rye Country Day School sophomore Scott Wieman at ceremony at Katonah Village Hall on May 14th. Scott was chosen from a list of highly qualified candidates from all over Northern Westchester and Eastern Putnam [...]

Fifteen low-income students from 10 high schools today were each awarded scholarships of up to $10,000 over 4 years through the county’s Jandon Scholars program.

The money comes from the Jandon Foundation, a private foundation created by Jane and Donald Cecil of Harrison. The program has handed out 125 college scholarships since 1999; by the end [...]

Non-profit housing agency Westhab Inc. is holding an event this week to mark National Volunteer Recognition Week, and will give Manhattanville College students its “Presidential Service Award” for their work with homeless children.

The event is Wednesday evening at the college’s Reid Castle.

A full list of honorees after the jump:

Students from seven Westchester schools will compete Tuesday in the Hudson Valley Regional Envirothon.

What’s an envirothon, you ask? Well, county officials tell us, “The event is organized around five areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife and a current environmental issue. The winning team from each participating county is eligible to go on to the NYS Envirothon [...]

Last week Monroe College cut the ribbon on Ustin Hall, a 32,000 square-foot building that is the new Bronx campus home to the King Graduate School of Business and the Monroe School of Business. The School of Business will be operating a Center for Entreprenurial Excellence there; the new building will also house the [...]

A student from the French-American School of New York recently placed ninth in a  worldwide “French Kangaroo Math” contest.

Matthias Wickenburg took the honor out of 8,000 eleventh graders around the world. More than 3.5 million francophone students in Grades 3 to 12 participated in the worldwide competition in March. The test consists of 24 math [...]

Purchase College reports that  Jon Esser, Associate Dean of the Purchase College School of the Arts, has received a $16,000 grant from the Dana Foundation’s ArtsBridge America program, via Lawrence University. The grant will fund four School of the Arts students to be ArtsBridge Scholars, teaching the arts to children in underserved schools through residencies.

Here’s [...]

The editorial board here has updated, and in some cases amended, the list of dates and times for interviews with candidates seeking the paper’s op/ed endorsement. Here’s the full list:

Interview schedule
Westchester
Ardsley: 3 p.m., Monday, May 5
Blind Brook: 3 p.m., Thursday, May 1
Briarcliff Manor: noon, Wednesday, May 7
Chappaqua: 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 29
Eastchester: 4 p.m., Tuesday, [...]

Running for school board or know someone who is? Alert them to the following note from our Editorial Board:

Candidates in contested school board races in the May 20 election are invited to discuss the issues and their campaigns in endorsement interviews with The Journal News Editorial Board. As in the past, these discussions will [...]

Paul J. Donahue, founder and director of Child Development Associates in Scarsdale, will speak at the Wooster school in Danbury, Conn., on May 15 about “the influence of computers, video games, and other forms of technology on our children.” His talk is the second lecture in the school’s “Focus on Ethical Education” speaker series, aimed [...]

Pop artist Charles Fazzino recently donated his time and efforts to work with the 2008 Ursuline School AP Art Class to create a large, three-dimensional painting celebrating the school and its heritage. The resulting work, “Ring Day at Ursuline” has been permanently installed at the school.

Fazzino, who has a studio in New Rochelle, has motivations [...]

Purchase College’s Joe Williams Scholars will perform at a jazz concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Choral Hall of the Music Building with special guests vocalist Cyrille-Aimee Daudel and drummer Dan McGuiness.

The five Jazz Studies students are on scholarship at Purchase College through a program established by the late jazz vocalist Joe Williams. The [...]

Amy Kirkham, a senior at Mamaroneck High School, is one of about 560 semifinalists in the 2008 Presidential Scholars Program, the school has announced. The group was winnowed from more than 3,000 candidates on the basis of their superior achievements, leadership qualities, character and community and school involvement.  Finalists will be announced in May.

Leslie Cohen, assistant vice president for human resources at Empire State College at the State University of New York is embarking on a solo bike ride across New York state to raise money for scholarships at the college. He plans to ride more than 1,000 miles in one month, from April 18 to May 19, [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he is subpoenaing BOCES districts statewide because they may have been complicit in listing part-time lawyers as full-time employees to get additional state tax dollars.

Cuomo is targeting the BOCES districts that operate regional services for a number of public school districts. Cuomo says the [...]