On Tuesday, May 21, Monticello Central School District (MCSD) voters approved the district’s $91.2 million 2019-20 school budget 603 yes to 451 no votes. The $91,227,073 budget is below the district’s legal tax cap limit, preserves all existing programs, represents a 0.80 percent tax levy increase and an overall spending increase of 1.56 percent. “I …
UPDATE: The following years are no longer available for purchase: 1968,1972,1977,1986,1994,1995,1999, and 2000. Thank you all for such an overwhelming response! The Monticello High School Yearbook Club has completed inventory of yearbooks and would like to sell the following years to previous graduates: 1972 1989 1990 1992 1993 1997 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 …
Bricks are tough to break, but paper is easy to tear. That’s why the newly-erected “Wall of Barriers” at Monticello High School is made out of index cards rather than rocks. The brainchild of the Monticello High School (MHS) No Place for Hate committee (NPFH), the “Wall of Barriers,” located just outside of the main …
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Congratulations to Monticello High School students Noah Rogers and Sarah Grodin who shone at the Orange County Interscholastic Athletics Association’s track championships on Saturday, May 18 at Warwick High School. Noah won the 110 Hurdles and Sarah won the 2000 Steeplechase.
Article courtesy of Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers Nearly twenty five years ago, Dr. Bettye H. Perkins founded the Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers Program. This organization recruits and trains culturally diverse and economically challenged students in high school, and supports them through college to become dedicated, effective teachers, and committed leaders. TSTT opens doors to students …
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Monticello educators joined other community members from around Sullivan County for an intensive two-and-a-half-day ChildLight Yoga and Yoga4Classrooms training, courtesy of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County and funded by a grant from the NYS Department of Health. According to SueAnn Boyd, who is the Healthy Schools Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, and was the …
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On May 15, the Monticello High School Academy of Finance (AOF) celebrated its graduating seniors during the annual AOF senior reception held at SUNY Sullivan. The 13 AOF seniors are: Abraham Corces Joseph Evans Fiona Feltman Sofia Heimowitz James Hiciano, Jr. Raheem House Aiden Johnson James Lopez Kayla Medina Alison Monroy Mejia Ashvi Patel Kevin …
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A group of Monticello Central School District science students spent the greater part of the day on Friday, May 10 calculating water pH levels, performing tests to determine how height and incline influence speed and conducting experiments to learn the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Although the tools they used were what you would …
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The George L. Cooke Elementary School Student Council has been looking for ways to pay it forward to the community. On Earth Day, when they learned about how long it takes for sneakers to decompose in the local landfill, they wondered if there was a way to recycle sneakers instead of throwing them away. The …
Mrs. Furman’s second-grade class at the Emma C. Chase School are learning about ways to keep our Earth clean. As a culminating activity the students went on a litter pluck as they walked down the streets of Wurtsboro. The class put on their gloves and went to work filling bags with garbage. The students were …
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