Budget Vote Tuesday

Community Budget Vote on Tuesday, May 21; Budget Newsletter Available

On Tuesday, May 21, the Schodack CSD community will vote on a $20,773,047 proposed 2013-14 budget that largely preserves student programs with no increase in class sizes. The budget increases spending by 2.6% and requires an estimated 4.49% increase in the tax levy, which is within New York State's property tax cap. For more information, click here to download a .pdf of the budget newsletter, which was mailed to district residents on May 10. Posted 5/14/13.

NASCAR'S Dick Trickle Commits Suicide

Driver Left Suicide Note

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Steve McLaughlin Visits CES

This morning, I was a guest reader in Mrs. Donnelly's kindergarten class at Castleton Elementary School.

Budget Newsletter Available on Website

The Schodack Central School District’s budget newsletter was mailed on Friday, May 10 to all district residents. If you did not receive a newsletter or would like to view it online, it is available as a .pdf on the district website, www.schodack.k12.ny.us. 

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Famous TV Psychologist
Dead at 85

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Dr. Joyce Brothers -- once considered the most famous psychologist on the planet -- has died in NYC at the age of 85.

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Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize

By PATRICK E. JONES and MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press

BELIZE CITY (AP) - A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

"It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."

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