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August 31, 2019
suncommunitynews.com
• EDITION •
Meyer ready for opening of Boquet Valley end of every school day.
Merged district adds AP courses, counseling staff, student services chief
Boquet Valley hired a third school counselor to help address what parents had expressed was a missing resource in previous school staffing. And a new Director of Student Support Services was hired to spearhead integration of former Westport and ELCS AIS and Response Through Intervention (RTI) programs.
By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
“The new director is an administration level position,” Meyer said. “Olga ‘Nelly’ Collazo will focus on academic support structures, integrating them from former programs into both campuses. She also oversees the counseling services. The idea there is to ensure continuity.”
WESTPORT | Boquet Valley schools are ready to start day one. The newly formed school district is blending staff, curriculum and traditions from former Westport and ElizabethtownLewis Central schools. The gym floors are repainted to reflect the Griffin mascot in school colors, blue and gold.
The new student support administrator will see that the merged district coordinates services effectively, Meyer said.
The floors shine like they always do on the first day of school. New computers for classrooms include 50 desktop machines from CV-Tech, plus a shipment of new Chromebook laptops. WiFi access and internet systems are rebuilt to be the same in both buildings.
See BVCS » pg. 2
Boquet Valley Central School District Superintendent Josh Meyer on the newly repainted floor of the Lake View Campus gymnasium. Meyer said many school staff, teachers, administrators and board members have worked hard over the summer to prepare the schools for the new district’s first day of school, Sept. 5. Photo by Kim Dedam
The one tech caveat, Superintendent Josh Meyer told The Sun, is that teachers have not yet been able to migrate individual web pages over to the new school website.
High school students will find a few new teachers and an improved selection for elective class choices.
“So we’ve been putting class supply lists on the Boquet Valley Central School Facebook page and on our new web page,” he said.
The district will offer three Advanced Placement classes this year: AP U.S. History, AP Computer Science and AP English 12, Meyer said.
“Overall, we should be on track in terms of tech,” Meyer said.
College level Bridge Courses through North Country Community College will continue.
There will be a new Spanish 1 class. “And combining the electives from each school will provide students with a lot more options to choose from,” Meyer said. Student services have been bolstered, to incorporate an Academic Support Period at the
Boquet Valley: breakfast, lunch for free Continues program launched at Elizabethtown last year By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
Garden close to reopening
WESTPORT | Students will all have free breakfast and lunch at Boquet Valley Central School. District Superintendent Josh Meyer said the newly merged district qualified for the Community Eligibility Provision and was awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to provide lunch at no cost to all students.
See BRIDGE » pg. 3
The program continues Students Eat Free put into place in the ElizabethtownLewis school last year. As a merged district, Boquet Valley had to reapply. Breakfast and lunch funds provide one serving, and if students want second helpings or an a la carte item, they and their family will need to cover costs for those. Meyer said he is thrilled the new district qualified and will extend the Schools Eat Free program district-wide this year. “It’s exciting for the whole community,” the superintendent said.
Workers have begun to lay concrete decking, as they enter the home stretch in a project to replace a bridge over Johns Brook.
“We will have the same menu at both school campuses, Lake View in Westport and Mountain View in Elizabethtown.”
Photo by Tim Rowland
See FREE MEALS » pg. 2
Bicycle tour comes to Essex County the show by harmonizing on a couple of numbers from the popular musical.
Community leaders see it as chance to show off Adirondack amenities
Executive director Kim Rielly gave a quick spiel about the theater, how it was built as a train depot in 1876 and how the community saved it from demolition and how, today, theater staff are on hand to welcome Amtrak travelers disembarking in Westport.
By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
WESTPORT | As riders from Cycle Adirondacks Ultimate Cycling Vacation sat down for an evening of dinner and entertainment at the Essex Fairgrounds last Wednesday, four actors from the Depot Theatre’s production of “Forever Plaid” stole
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Later, Rielly said she does not expect that the evening will necessarily lead to any new season ticket holders. But the theater does provide a brushstroke on a broader canvas being painted by the communities that welcomed a band of 135 bicycle riders last week, which will hopefully lead to future benefits.
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