Pottery, history and heritage studied by PCHS students at Clay Art Center
BY CLAIRE K. RACINE
For the past 10 weeks, a group of Port Chester High School students has been meeting every Tuesday to play with dirt—otherwise known as taking a pottery class.
Fifteen students had the opportunity to take part in a 10-week course, Around the World in Clay, at the Clay Art Center on Beech Street. During the grant-funded program, the students learned about ceramic traditions of ancient Latin American civilizations as well as different ways to work with clay including...
P.C. school budget passes 2-1, Dreves re-elected, Corbia elected
BY CLAIRE K. RACINE
Most years the result of the Port Chester school board election and budget vote is known within minutes of the polls closing at 9:00. Tuesday, May 15, however, was the exception to the rule.
It only took a couple machines to be tallied before it was clear the 2012-13 school budget would pass and those waiting in the middle school gymnasium erupted with cheers and clapping. While it also seemed that current board member and past president Jim...
PCMS art display focuses on history of Port Chester
BY CLAIRE K. RACINE
Port Chester native George Marshall showed up Tuesday to do his civic duty and vote in the annual Port Chester school board election and budget vote, but he got sidetracked before he made it into the middle school gymnasium to cast his ballot. What had caught Marshall’s eye—and that of his wife as well—was the display organized by middle school students on the history of Port Chester.
“I thought the kids did a fabulous job,” said 69-year-old Marshall.
Marshall...
