The administration at Newfield Central School District has seen some big changes in 2020. Amidst a school year that would have been challenging due to COVID-19 even in otherwise placid times, the district has embraced change. And according to the interim superintendent, the schools have thrived.
Jamie McCaffrey of Newfield School District was awarded this year’s Raymond Van Houtte Teacher Award along with four other recipients.
ITHACA, NY -- Tompkins Trust Company and the Legacy Foundation announced that five Tompkins County teachers were recognized with certificates and monetary awards for their efforts to improve education in their districts. This year’s Raymond Van Houtte Teacher Awards recipients are Jamie McCa…
The Tompkins County Sheriff's Office is again requesting the public's assistance in the investigation of the shooting homicide of Dejour Gandy in Dec. 2019.
Though Newfield resident and Dryden High School teacher Nichole Gunn was not able to obtain access to the internet for herself and her family prior to the first day of school, just six days after, on Sept. 16, Clarity Connect finally came through and laid down fiber optic cables to give the …
“Our admin team, tech team, and staff are trudging through unprecedented waters and trying their best to build a plane while we are flying it,” the letter states. “We are very thankful to all of you for your continued patience and grace as we make this thing work.”
On Sept. 30 at approximately 11:40 a.m., the Newfield Fire Company was alerted for a reported house fire on Van Kirk Road, according to the department’s Facebook page.
Like most libraries throughout Tompkins County, the Newfield Public Library made the decision to move all of its programs to an online format for folks to take advantage of remotely early on during the COVID-19 outbreak this past spring.
The Town of Newfield adopted the Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Pledge June 11 and is now seeking community members to apply for membership in Newfield’s Climate Smart Communities task force.
An online public meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Sept. 3 to outline the New York State Route 13 Corridor Study. The meeting will be hosted by the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability (TCDPS) and the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council (ITCTC).
Families who are looking for ways to relieve their children from isolation and time spent watching a screen during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new “story walk” has been set up along the Groton Trail System behind the community pool at Sykes Park.
Newfield Central School district will hold three public informational meetings next week to address the topic of school reopening in the fall. The meetings, which will take place over the video conferencing program Zoom, will all dispense the same information, and there will be question and …
In its most recent newsletter, Newfield Public Library (NPL) thanked everyone who voted to increase the library’s funding.
The residents of Newfield will have an opportunity to learn about a new proposed subdivision law at a public meeting July 9 at 7 p.m. at the Newfield Fire House.
Like the majority of the local school districts, the COVID-19 outbreak forced the Newfield Central School District to alter its plans for the graduation ceremony of the class of 2020.
After first being introduced to the “Climate Smart Communities” program about eight months ago, the Newfield Town Council invited back Terry Carroll, an Energy Educator at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, to pitch the program again at a meeting on May 14.
Newfield’s oldest relic, the Seabring Inn, has new ownership as of April 10. Jordan Rosenbaum and Sabine Detterback have taken over the reigns of a bar and restaurant that has existed in the community for more than 50 years.
Spring is usually the time for high school seniors to make the major decision of where they want to continue their education. Some students, like Newfield’s Connor Furman, have the stressful luxury of having multiple options to weigh over the next month or so.
Are you interested in knowing more about today’s technology and how to implement it in your life? The Newfield Public Library is beginning a series of technology classes, to be held on the fourth Thursday of every month, and they could prove to be just what you need to solve your technology …
At a meeting of the Newfield Central School District Board of Education Dec. 19, preliminary approval for the expenditure of Smart Schools monies was approved by the board.
After years of construction in all three of Newfield’s schools, the Newfield Central School District capital project is finally nearing completion.
This past October marked the 100th Anniversary of the passing of the Volstead Act by Congress in 1919. It was that law that instigated the colorful era in American history known as prohibition. No doubt the mere mention of the word conjures images of suited gangsters, tommy guns, back alley …
Update: As law enforcement continues to investigate the shooting on Shaffer Road in Newfield that left DeJour Xavier Gandy dead early Saturday morning, friends, family and coworkers of the 29-year-old Newfield High School graduate are struggling to come to terms with the death of a young per…
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