
There was a time when Amanda Shaw had never heard of an athletic trainer.
But during her junior year at Attica High School, when she and her classmates started researching care...

Kelly Beitz still remembers her first foot in the door at Attica Central Schools.
It was the winter of 1999 and Beitz, who at that time had been teaching physical education at B...

As a parent, I would often take a moment or two in the evening to ask my kids about their day in school. Over the years I learned that if I asked them what they did in school, the ...

Each night at the dinner table, Alicia Spoth makes a point of telling her son, August, where the food he’s about to eat comes from.
“I don’t want my child to look at it just li...

Teachers and staff at Attica Elementary School have been using a portion of the federal grant funding awarded to the district in 2019 to overhaul afterschool programs for our young...

Our Future Farmers of America chapter officers recently returned from a trip to Albany, where they were invited by the Wyoming County Farm Bureau to participate in its annual Lobby...

Mrs. Becky Sphar, a family and consumer sciences teacher in our middle and high schools, came up with a novel challenge for her high school Foods On Your Own class earlier this mon...

Members of Attica’s Future Farmers of America chapter dusted off their spatulas this past weekend as the club hosted its 13th annual Pancake Breakfast this weekend at the North Jav...

Pre-kindergarten registration for the 2023-24 school year is now open to Attica families.
If your child will be four (4) years old by Dec. 1, 2023, he or she is eligible for our...

The Attica Central School District Board of Education has named Assistant Middle School Principal Sherry Bennett interim principal of Attica Elementary School.
The Board unani...

Visitors to the Middle School Library took a giant step back in time last week - about 4,500 years to be precise - as students in Mrs. Allison Cali’s sixth grade social studies cla...
The Narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” had most certainly killed the old man. That fact was never in doubt.
But was the narrator sane when...

Gabrielle Gebel has spent every year since the age of 3 in school. Now 26 and a doctoral candidate in couple and family therapy at Adler University in Chicago, Ill., Gebel is looki...

High School Science Teacher Jenna Linsey’s new local outdoor sciences elective covers a lot of ground for its 20-week duration.
So far this semester, Linsey’s 18 students have ...
Unfinished learning as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has been an unfortunate reality across all New York school districts for much of the past 2-1/2 years.
In 2019, the ...
Members of the Wyoming Correctional Facility’s Make a Difference committee presented Attica Central Schools’ Best Buddies chapter with a $350 donation last week at the high school....
Students in Mr. John Versage’s middle school career and technical education classes are putting the district’s new hydroponic grow system to use learning about plants and their gro...

Stephan Bove still remembers Fire Prevention Day back in 2002, when he was five years old and a kindergartener at Attica Elementary School.
“From ‘02, I remember, it was mainly...

Students in Mrs. Becky Sphar’s “Foods on Your Own” class went head-to-head last week in a pancake showdown for the ages. Sphar’s elective course is designed to assist students in p...
After her junior high art teacher told her she wasn’t talented enough to be an artist, Brooke Schery put down her paintbrush and didn’t pick one up again for more than a decade.
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