TIMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Premature
farewell
Carbone not quite ready
to leave Pine Bush
By TED REMSNYDER
The Pine Bush Board of Education
held its final meeting of the summer
on August 16, as the district prepared
for the new school year by fortifying
its staff with a
number of new
appointments.
But as the
m e e t i n g
proved,
the
district’s
administration
is still in a
period
of
transition.
Last Tuesday’s
gathering
i n c l u d e d
a
quick
Joan Carbone
mid-session
goodbye party
for outgoing Superintendent Joan
Carbone, replete with carrot cake for
those in attendance. Despite the farewell,
Carbone’s replacement has yet to be
chosen, so she’ll be sticking with the
district for another six weeks while the
board continues to hunt for her successor.
The superintendent is taking a brief
respite from the district, and will return
with a slightly altered title in time for the
start of classes on September 6.
“My last day of work as the
superintendent is August 19 and I actually
start retirement the end of August,”
Carbone said. “So I will not be in the
district for that time. At the previous
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Busy summer winds down
Wallkill school board gets update on capital projects
By TED REMSNYDER
When the Wallkill Central School
District throws open its doors on
September 7 to start the 2016-2017
school year, students will have new
facilities and fields to explore after a
busy summer of construction on the
district’s ambitious capital project.
The $8.2 million plan, which
taxpayers approved last year, included
safety improvements, renovated
auditoriums and new athletic fields for
the district’s
schools. At
the school
board’s
meeting
on August
18 at the
high school,
Board Vice
President
Tom Frisbie,
who chairs
the Building
& Grounds
Committee,
provided an
update on
the progress
KEVIN CASTLE
of the
SUPERINTENDENT
project.
Frisbie
reported that
the project’s general contractor will
complete work in the high school and
middle school auditoriums by August
29. All of the generators the district
purchased for the upcoming school
year are already on site and will be
installed this week. The new synthetic
turf football field will be all ready to
“We’re very
pleased with the
progress, and we
just can’t wait
till we’re able
to open up the
new field for our
students and the
community.”
Continued on page 4
Ted Remsnyder
The athletic field will be ready when the Panthers play their first home football game on
Sept. 30. See related story on page 40.
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