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Forgotten Civil War veteran will finally get proper tombstone, thanks to two NY middle school students
A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper burial is finally receiving recognition, thanks to two eighth-grade students in New York. Kendall Peruzzini and Mary McCormick spoke with Fox News Digital on Wednesday about their efforts to commemorate Daniel Walterhouse, a Union Army veteran who died in 1910. Both teens attend Albion Middle School in western New York. Walterhouse, who was born in Orleans County, New York, in 1823, died at the Orleans County Alms House at around 87 years of age. He was a Orleans County native who enrolled in the Fourth Michigan Infantry in 1861. Tim Archer, a retired service learning teacher...
Section 1 football: Late surge lifts Rye to 35-21 win over Yorktown in Class A showdown
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ‒ The miscues continue to confound, but the missteps that usually syphon momentum are easily outnumbered by big plays in big moments. We've seen this before. Rye...
HS Football: Hasbrouck Heights' Big Plays Lift Aviators Past Wood-Ridge, 28-7
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ – Michael Napolitano scored two touchdowns on Hasbrouck Heights' first two possessions as the Aviators jumped out to an early lead en route to a 28-7 victory over Wood-Ridge in a NJIC independent football game on Friday night at Donna Ricker Field. An electric atmosphere was present as the two long-time rivals met for the first time since 2011, as one of the biggest crowds in recent years was in attendance at Wood-Ridge.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERWood-Ridge won the coin toss, and deferred, choosing to kick off to start the...
Mold Found at Hannah Caldwell School; Parts of School Closed for Remediation
UNION, NJ – Mold has been discovered in and around the Hannah Caldwell Elementary School (HCES) library, said Superintendent Gerry Benaquista in a letter to the Hannah Caldwell School community on Sunday.Benaquista said the library was immediately closed pending an investigation and testing by a Board of Education-approved contractor. He said during the investigation, “signs of water damage and moisture at specific points throughout the immediate area of the library were also identified.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERFollowing this discovery, Benaquista said, additional experts were engaged to help identify the reason for the “water intrusion”...
Black student enrollment drops at NYU, Columbia, Cornell after SCOTUS ends affirmative action
The proportion of Black students at several of New York’s most selective colleges plummeted in some of this year’s freshmen classes, the first enrolled after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. New York University, Columbia University and Cornell University all reported drops in data released over the last several weeks, now that colleges are legally ...
Author Shares His Unusual and Inspiring Crew Story with Hackensack Students
HACKENSACK, NJ - Author Arshay Cooper visited Hackensack High School this week to talk about his unusual and successful foray into the world of crew, which has been developed into a highly acclaimed documentary.Students received an inspiring lesson in perseverance and self-belief from the author of the memoir "A Most Beautiful Thing" which details his experience as a member of the first all-Black high school rowing team in America.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERCooper, whose story has been adapted into a critically acclaimed documentary produced by NBA stars Grant Hill and Dwayne...
Montclair Standardized Test Scores Called ‘Crisis’ for Black Students
New standardized test scores presented to the Montclair Board of Education this week show gaps between the performance of minority students and their peers persist even as local students scored higher than their counterparts across the state. Of juniors at Montclair High School, 88% were “graduation ready” in English language...
Huskers Win on Senior Night
YORKTOWN, N.Y.—Senior night is always a special night, especially when it is one honoring 14 people who were invaluable to the program. Yorktown (9-3) honored those seniors in fine style with a 3-0 victory against visiting White Plains on Oct. 10. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERAnnie Durante (captain), Brie Gaccino (captain), Norah Guss (captain), Clare Ryan (captain), Dana DeCourcey, Hannah Salles, Erin Horton, Marissa Madden, Katie Keaveney, Olivia Flaim, Alexis Warren, Isabelle Bevilacqua, Ava Cunneen, and Sheridan Gorman (manager) were the seniors honored.“This senior class has meant a lot to the program,” said Yorktown coach Courtney...
Columbia cracks down — not on the antisemites, but their critic
Columbia University is only getting sicker. In the latest news, it has banned Business School prof Shai Davidai from campus, supposedly for harassing students on Oct. 7 — the anniversary of Hamas’ terror attack. It’s pretty obvious that the real problem is that Davidai keeps getting in the faces of the campus Jew-haters as they demonstrate. Meanwhile, no sanction at all for the keffiyeh-clad students who flooded campus that day chanting “resistance is glorious” and transparently antisemitic taunts. Outspoken Columbia prof Shai Davidai banned from campus for ‘harassing’ school officials over anti-Israel protesters This comes a few months after three deans went on leave after...
Football: West Essex Rallies to Hand Hanover Park its First Loss, 22-21
EAST HANOVER, NJ -- After falling behind by 14 points in the first 10 minutes of the game, West Essex stormed back for a 22-21 football victory over previously undefeated Hanover Park on the road Friday night.The victory was the 114th in the career of head coach Chris Benacquista, making him the winningest football coach in West Essex High School history.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERFullback Brady Phillips' 4-yard touchdown run with 6:43 left in the third quarter followed by Robert Warmington's extra point gave West Essex (6-1) a 22-21 lead, and...
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