BROCTON — Brocton Central School has named its top January students. Eighth‑grader Isaac Brady, son of Kristen and Matthew Brady of Portland, has been chosen for Brocton Middle School. A motivated and community‑minded student, Isaac stands out for his leadership and clear goals. Isaac ...
Recently students at Dunkirk Primary School 5 were chosen as Students of the Month for December. They were presented with certificates for their accomplishments. Aiden Montalvo Hernandez, Grade 1, was chosen as Overall Student of the Month for December and was honored at a recent Board of ...
The Fredonia Shakespeare Club recently was hosted at the home of Joyce Haines. President Karin Cockram welcomed Club members to the meeting. After a brief business meeting concluded, a paper by Judi Lutz Woods on Gobekli Tepe was presented. Here is a summary:. Gobekli Tepe is a discovery that shifted the entire story of human evolution and what our ancestors really were doing thousands of years ago. Gobekli Tepe is in the 'Stone Hills' in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains, in Turkey. It is 12,000 years old, 6,000 years older than Stonehenge and the pyramids. It was built at ...
Centaur Stride was founded with health and wellness at its heart, guided by a simple but powerful belief: horses and nature are the foundations that can both teach and heal. From the very beginning, our vision reached beyond the physical act of just the benefits of riding. Our original ...
Wheel. Compass. Dam. Lynchpin. Toilet. Dynamite. Roadmap. This list represents a tiny fraction of the inventions that have served to advance civilization throughout history. I’ve selected them for this essay as typically commonplace, unremarkable objects that have assumed a greater significance beyond their everyday usefulness. These are physical objects that have come to represent abstract ideas, or symbols. The wheel might signify many things, including justice (as in grinding slowly but fine) and the cycle of life. Most importantly, it came to represent American Westward ...
In a recent article I described a group of individuals objecting to the use of the Hindu Arabic Base 10 Number System taught to students in U.S. public schools as “uninformed.” A couple of people commented that the word uninformed was too harsh, while others commented that the word was not harsh enough. According to AI, the word “uninformed” is generally considered a relatively neutral, objective or descriptive term in that it primarily describes a state of lacking information or knowledge about a specific subject. A synonym for uniformed is uneducated. A 2018 survey conducted ...
