On Friday, Dec. 17, district administrators were made aware of a SnapChat social media conversation that included a threat to a school. The post did not mention Hornell. After an initial investigation by the Hornell Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department, no credibility to the message was found. However, out of an abundance of caution, there …
On Friday evening, the district learned of the arrest of a school bus driver, Mr. Timothy Schultz, by the New York State Police. This arrest was based on allegations of conduct not connected to his work at school. As of the writing of this release, Mr. Schultz is no longer employed with the district. While we do …
Teachers play an important role in everyone’s life. They help shape our interests and introduce us to a world bigger than our own. This year, one of Hornell’s educators, , was nominated for the 2021 NextGen Leader Awards hosted by First Heritage Federal Credit Union. Brubaker is a seventh grade Living Science teacher and has …
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On Saturday, October 30, 2021, the Hornell varsity boys soccer team took home the Section V Class B1 Sectional Title after defeating Palmyra-Macedon at SUNY Geneseo by a final score of 2-1. Coach Jim Tobin, was named Section V ADPRO Coach of the Year for Class B1. The team ended the season with a 9-3 …
Kate Bowie’s special education class with students from second through fourth grade were selected as one of 50 schools across the country to participate in Project FeederWatch through The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The FeederWatch program was started in 2016, to collect a survey of birds visiting various locations from November to April. The students …
Each fall, North Hornell Librarian Vanessa Splitulnik’s students are introduced to Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller. Sophie is a little girl who gets a squash at a farmer’s market and treats it like her baby, named Bernice. She takes care of her squash baby until she starts to turn bad. After a discussion with …
There was a lot of activity at the Intermediate School on October 25, 2021 . Students from one of Jacey Hanson’s fifth-grade ELA classes launched a rescue mission for a toad stuck in a grate outside of the school. Students Angel Mota, Xzavier Raycroft and Zach Mullen, who call themselves the “Nature Bros,” wrote a …
In September, the Hornell City School District announced that the Intermediate School was awarded a $3 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Librarians Jordan Hahn and Jennifer Carretto are busy planning creative ways to use the allotted grant money over the next five years. Families with second to sixth grade students should …
