Several students rubbed their freshly-shaven heads as they left Ilion Jr.-Sr. High School Friday afternoon, bracing for a gust of cold air.
“It’s so cold,” they joked.

Students traveled back to medieval times after a week-long lesson plan culminated in a festival that celebrated the food, dancing, costumes and traditions of the period.
Dressed in costumes they made, the sixth-graders paraded through the hall to the school’s cafeteria so that students in kindergarten through fifth-grade classes could see what they looked like.

The Friday, Feb. 26 performance of "Will Roger's Follies" at Ilion High School will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m., as scheduled. Thursday night tickets may still be exchanged for what tickets are available for Friday's and Saturday's performances. All advance-purchase tickets for Thursday's performance will still be honored on  Sunday, Feb. 28 for a 2 p.m.

Two Smartboards and webcam technology will come to the Ilion Central School district later this year.

Fastrac Markets awarded $10,000 to the school district Monday. This was part of over $45,000 in grant money awarded in total to regional school districts as part of the convenience store chain’s annual “Funding the Classroom.” 

 The Herkimer County BOCES administrative and capital budgets will likely only see minimal increases this year.
The total administrative budget proposal for the school districts is $2,790,371 - an increase of $77,762 from last year’s budget or less than one percent.

High school students struggling with their Global 1 & 2 courses may see some help in the near future.
The Credit Recovery Program will allow the nine juniors and four sophomores at Ilion Jr./Sr. High School the opportunity to work on their problem areas in Global Studies, but continue to work on the criteria recommended for their grade-level.

 Brian Lamica wants to see children make the right decisions in friendships.
During a meeting with members of Just Say No after school on Wednesday, Lamica emphasized this along with other values.
“Choosing good friendships makes a world of difference,” he said.

The Frankfort-Schuyler Central School Board of Education postponed tonight's meeting and rescheduled it for Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

Talks continued Monday about a possible merger between the Ilion and Mohawk central school districts.

Chris Maine made his own snowmaker for the science fair at Herkimer County Community College Saturday.
What did he learn?
“I figured out snowmaking is not as easy as it looks,” said Maine, who is a 8th grader at Mohawk Valley Christian Academy in Little Falls.

Seventh graders at Richfield Springs Central School now have a new tool to help them with their education.  
Students were issued the MacBook laptops during a ceremony in the school’s LGI room on Friday. The laptops are part of a new school program called “1 to 1 laptop,” where each student has his or her own computer for school work.

More than 100 students packed into the conference room Friday at Herkimer BOCES, cheering on their classmates as they vied for trivia supremacy.

The bullying by classmates and taunts of “homo” only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled “I hope you die” on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him.

St. Francis de Sales Regional Catholic School welcomed the community to an open house Wednesday night, hoping to get parents to enroll their children for the next school year.

A recent survey asked Herkimer County young people a range of questions involving everything from substance abuse to family dinners.