Budget Workshop January 27, 2025
The link to the budget workshop livestream is here A link to the slideshow is here
There’s no monkeying around when it comes to students in this 2nd Grade
You could say students in Samantha Hall’s second grade classroom are not monkeying around when it comes to a fellow classmate who is out of school due to illness. The students in the Menands Union Free School have adopted Gage Jr., a stuffed monkey, to keep the seat warm for their classmate, who has been …
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Committee exploring Menands School facility needs
A panel of village residents, parents and school employees are exploring the long-term facility needs of the Menands School. The 15-member Facilities Committee, which began its work in late November, is planning to make recommendations to the Board of Education this March. Any projects the committee puts forth could go before voters in May, Superintendent …
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Menands officials: Riverside Special Education Collaborative a ‘win-win’
A regionalization initiative to increase student services while saving taxpayers is exceeding expectations this school year, school district officials say. The Riverside Special Education Collaborative launched in September to provide the “least restrictive educational environment” for students in the Menands, Cohoes, Green Island and Watervliet schools. Through the collaborative, students remain enrolled in their respective …
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Students open a new chapter on charity
Menands students logged thousands of minutes of reading recently while raising hundreds of dollars for Ronald McDonald House Charities. Throughout November, students in grades kindergarten through eight at Menands read books and, in the process, raised funds for the charity through pledges and donations. A total of $800 was raised for the charity with 6th …
Budget development calendar set
The Menands Board of Education approved on Jan. 13 a budget development calendar for the 2025-26 school year budget. The plan details the step-by-step approach the board will take in putting together a spending plan that will go to voting public for approval on May 20. The budget development calendar is as follows: Jan 27: …
Spelling success at Menands begins and ends with C-I-R-A-I
A seventh grader has won the Menands School spelling bee. Cirai Haynes out-spelled 15 other students to win the championship on Dec. 11. Siva Saranya Karthika Chembeti, an 8th grade student, was runner-up. Haynes advances to the regional qualifier exam and if she places well in that, will compete in the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee. …
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Students ‘open’ door to the holidays with festive decorations
It’s beginning to look like the holidays at Menands School where students are joining faculty and staff in decorating their classroom doors. In what has become an annual competition, each classroom decorates their door in holiday/winter theme with the class with the best decorated door winning a classroom party, plaque and movie. A walk through the …
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Students ‘pay it forward’ by helping local animal shelter
Elementary school students in Menands are ‘feline’ fine after helping animals that are being cared for by the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society. Students in the Pay It Forward club recently made blankets for cats at the shelter and then paid a visit to the shelter, said club advisor Shauna Stack. While at the shelter, the young …
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RPI students work with, learn from Menands kindergarten student
A kindergarten student in Menands is getting a helping hand from students in RPI. Two groups of aspiring engineers at the prestigious college are working with William Gangemi, a kindergarten student at the Menands Union Free School District. One group of students from the Introduction to Engineering Design class at RPI is working to make …
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