Browse past news stories for Peekskill High School in Peekskill, NY.

• Peekskill High security guard a student champion (The Journal News)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 08:17:56 am
  It is an unusually warm autumn day and over at Peekskill High School, Edward "Pete" Peterson finds himself sitting on a bench taking a break from his security detail. The brief respite, though, doesn’t stop Peterson from shelling out some "brotherly" advice.
• Westchester people in the news (The Journal News)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 07:41:48 am
  Somers resident Lisa Kosits, a clinical faculty member at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was awarded the Nursing Practice Award by the New York State Nurses Association at its biennial convention Oct. 10. Her recent dissertation focused on the effects of interruptions on nursing practice, revealing information that can be used to improve the delivery of nursing care.
• List: Veterans Day ceremonies, parades today (The Journal News)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 05:00:52 pm
  New York City: Wreath-laying ceremony at 10 a.m. at the Eternal Light Monument, Fifth Avenue at 24th Street. Veterans Day Parade, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. along Fifth Avenue from 26th to 56th streets. Veterans Day Street Fairs, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on 56th Street between Madison and Sixth avenues.
• Business Skills Olympics inspires teamwork, creativity (The Journal News)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 04:51:30 pm
  GREENBURGH - Inside the town's community center, high school students plotted strategies to save one of the largest companies in the United States.
• List: Veterans Day observances (The Journal News)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 08:45:11 pm
  Communities are observing Veterans Day with observances starting Sunday. The observances include these: Montrose: Veterans Day Ceremony at VA Hudson Valley Health Care System - Montrose campus, Building 15, Room 16. Public is invited.
• List: Veterans Day ceremonies, parades (The Journal News)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 08:41:01 pm
  Montrose: Veterans Day ceremony at VA Hudson Valley Healthcare System. Public is invited. Free. VA Hudson Valley Healthcare System, Montrose campus, Building 15, Room 16, Route 9A. 914-737-4400.
• Sponsored by: (The Journal News)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 06:42:12 am
  MOUNT VERNON - A 12-year-old boy who police said was assaulted by his father at A.B. Davis Middle School last week walked home alone and wasn't taken to the hospital until his mother saw his severe head injury, his mother told The Journal News on Monday.
• Three H.S. coaches, journalist honored (The Journal News)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 06:34:29 am
  TARRYTOWN - Although they've launched the careers of star athletes, three local high school basketball coaches on Friday were honored for keeping their students as focused on education as they are on chasing championships.
• Looming baseball deadline lifted as one league is dropped and another option arises (The Register Citizen)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 10:18:55 pm
  TORRINGTON — Our Baseball Haven has dropped its plans to purchase a New England Collegiate Baseball League team but is instead finalizing a transaction to get another team from a different league.
• Peekskill High School class still close 70 years later (The Journal News)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 06:37:15 am
  PEEKSKILL - They were children during the Great Depression and graduated from high school two months before the start of World War II.
• High school class still close 70 years later (The Journal News)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 06:35:05 am
  PEEKSKILL - They were children during the Great Depression and graduated from high school two months before the start of World War II. The times were trying yet somehow unifying for a small but spirited group of Peekskill High School alumni.
• Sharp attacks shape DiFiore-Castro D.A. primary (The Journal News)
  posted on September 13, 2009 at 07:05:10 pm
  The gloves came off four years ago when Tony Castro and Janet DiFiore first squared off in the race for Westchester district attorney. They never bothered putting them back on for this year's rematch.
• When the Clothes Came Off (Gay City News)
  posted on September 11, 2009 at 01:42:18 am
  Why would a noted gay intellectual devote his time to a history of the queer porn industry?
• Peekskill man dies in head-on crash (The Journal News)
  posted on September 6, 2009 at 06:37:49 am
  CORTLANDT - The family of a Peekskill man killed in a head-on collision late yesterday remembered him today as a good father, grandfather and a very caring person.
• Family: Crash victim was loving, caring man (The Journal News)
  posted on September 6, 2009 at 06:34:49 am
  CORTLANDT - The family of a Peekskill man killed in a head-on collision late Friday remembered him yesterday as a good father and grandfather and a very caring person.
• Westchester news in brief (The Journal News)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 02:20:54 am
  BUCHANAN: Indian Point 3 was back online yesterday after an emergency shutdown Thursday night. The plant was shut down about 7:32 p.m. Thursday after a loss of oil in the turbine system. Indian Point 2 was not affected by the incident, which was the fourth such shutdown since March.
• 20 schools miss state progress targets (The Journal News)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 06:32:38 am
  Twenty schools in the Lower Hudson Valley must develop or enhance plans to boost student achievement after failing to ensure all students made adequate progress on state tests.
• N.Y. man plunges to his death trying to help driver in overturned vehicle (Asbury Park Press)
  posted on June 30, 2009 at 02:55:46 pm
  Two decades ago, Kevin Ryan saved a woman and her babies from a burning car. On Sunday night, the Yonkers man died in a similar attempt.
• Peekskill student earns $2,500 in scholarships (The Journal News)
  posted on June 18, 2009 at 06:39:07 am
  PEEKSKILL: Peekskill High School senior Danielle Urbanowicz is the recipient of the 2009 Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce Scholarship and the Retired Educators Chapter of Peekskill Faculty Scholarship.
• Man Exonerated After 16 Years In Prison No Fan of Sotomayor (Gothamist)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 04:13:28 pm
  Jeffrey Deskovic A man who spent 16 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit is angry all over again because the judge who dismissed his appeal over a procedural error is now on her way to the Supreme Court . When he was 16 years old, Jeffrey Deskovic was convicted of raping, beating and strangling a Peekskill High School classmate in a jealous fit of rage; he was finally exonerated in 2006 ...
• Peekskill school board candidates talk budget cuts, academics (The Journal News)
  posted on May 16, 2009 at 06:36:49 am
  PEEKSKILL - With a proposed $71.7 million school budget that calls for staff cuts and no new programming, incumbent school board member Francine Feuerman said she is more concerned with what will happen to the 2010-11 budget.
• Crusading for Justice? Or Just Making Waves? (New York Times)
  posted on May 3, 2009 at 03:00:57 am
  Two of the Georges were cleared of wrongdoing in a local fracas, but since then, debate has resumed over the family?s tactics in fighting what they say is racial harassment.
• Peekskill schools budget cuts staff, closes Uriah Hill (The Journal News)
  posted on April 23, 2009 at 06:37:40 am
  PEEKSKILL - The school district's 2009-10 budget carries a 2 percent property tax increase along with staffing cuts and the closing of an early-childhood school.
• Five candidates vie for two seats on the Croton school board (The Journal News)
  posted on April 23, 2009 at 06:37:30 am
  Five candidates are running for two open seats on the Croton-Harmon Board of Education.
• Student exchange between Hendrick Hudson and Peekskill high schools (The Journal News)
  posted on March 28, 2009 at 06:44:08 am
  Peekskill High School and Hendrick Hudson High School lie 3.9 miles away from each other. But given some of the cultural roadblocks that separate them, the distance can seem much farther.
• Peekskill High School students put live music to cartoon (The Journal News)
  posted on March 25, 2009 at 06:48:25 am
  PEEKSKILL - Downstairs in the band room at Peekskill High School, students have been busy honing what could be considered a lost art: melding live music with animated film.
• SYRACUSE ORANGE BASKETBALL (The Post-Standard)
  posted on March 23, 2009 at 09:08:47 am
  Remember to tag your photos 'orange.'
• Overtime heartbreaker stuns Peekskill fans (The Journal News)
  posted on March 23, 2009 at 06:37:35 am
  GLENS FALLS - The emotion of losing in a state championship game was evident in the way Malcolm McDonald hugged his mother, Lynette. The senior basketball player from Peekskill High School gripped her tightly next to the team's bench as both were brought to tears.
• School News (The Journal News)
  posted on March 23, 2009 at 06:33:56 am
  Consistent with the school district's effort to increase sustainability awareness, science and enrichment, students recently looked at preconceptions and behavior when drinking water.
• Former Marine from Peekskill makes progress but PTSD still haunts him (The Journal News)
  posted on March 9, 2009 at 06:42:20 am
  Since leaving the Marines in July 2007, 23-year-old David Tracy of Peekskill has accomplished a lot.