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SubmittEd photo the Cazenovia lions Club recently honored the students of the month for september, october, november and December of 2022. team since she was rehabilitating from a significant knee injury, she sustained this past year. However, she stayed involved by volunteering to run the clock at the JV team’s soccer games.”

Alayna Berson is a ninth grader at Cazenovia High School.

She was selected as the Cazenovia Lions Club November 2022 student of the month.

Berson is the daughter of Robert and Lisa Berson of Cazenovia. She was nomniated by faculty members Marty Kelly and Lisa Senehi.

They wrote the follwing; “Alayna worked with her advisors and Tara Pratt to plan, organize, and lead a community service project. She recognized that the ninth grade class needed more events throughout the year to grow closer and more active. A free Christmas wrapping event was planned and held in the high school on a Saturday morning thanks to her efforts. About 15 class members showed up to complete some community service hours as well as wrap presents, listen to music, decorate some of the school, and enjoy refreshments of hot cocoa and doughnuts. Alayna’s efforts organizing the group, generating publicity, and garnering donations from parents made the event a total success and will now be held each year.”

Erin Kuhn is a 12th grader at Cazenovia High School.

Developed with assistance from local resident Matt Cashatt, the website provides opportunities for the public to ask questions, submit an idea, or sign up to get involved in a focus group.

“Our goal is to keep the public informed as this complex process moves forward and to harness the ideas, creativity, contacts and resources of our community in pursuit of optimum outcomes,” said Wheeler in a statement on the website’s homepage. “The purpose of this website is to enable that process by creating a forum to answer questions, share ideas and provide accurate information for potential future uses of the campus.”

According to the mayor, the New York State Police are currently considering the campus as a location for a temporary, secondary training academy.

“The state police have a significant shortfall of troopers right now and are under I think a certain degree of pressure from the state government to catch up,” said Wheeler. “it’s more than they can train in their normal training pipeline at their primary facility, so they are looking for a facility. I think Cazenovia would be their