Sharon Springs School Teen Night Goes Over Well

SHARON SPRINGS — A Teen Night held Friday, March 6 at Sharon Springs Central School was a big success, junior Kaylee Crewell told the school board at its Monday, March 9 meeting.

Crewell, the student representative to the school board, said the event was the first of its kind held in a few years and was a fundraiser for the Student Council. She said the event featured board games, basketball, a DJ and other highlights.

In other parts of her report to the school board, Crewell said she and other organizers are in the relatively early stages of planning a car wash and barbecue to go along with it, to possibly be held on Memorial Day.

In other actions from the March 9 meeting, the board reviewed fire inspection and emergency closings policies and voted to approve requests that 20 out-of-district students ranging from grades kindergarten to 12th be educated in the Sharon Springs CSD in 2026-2027 at no tuition costs.

Superintendent Tom Yorke said the agreements to educate the students who don't live in the Sharon Springs district comes with the proviso that if any of them turn out to have exceptional needs that would require, as one example, busing out of the district, that Sharon Springs CSD would not be able to do that.

Board President Helen Roberts announced that the process for Yorke's annual evaluation had begun and that the board is working on that.

In personnel actions at the end of the meeting, the board approved several spring coaching recommendations. Chris Smith was approved as varsity baseball coach, Sam Bonderoff as modified baseball coach, Brittany Pitonza as varsity softball coach, Alex Yorke as modified softball coach and Lydia Lusk as a volunteer assistant for modified and varsity softball.

The public part of the March 9 meeting did not start until 7:15 p.m. after the board held an executive session for an hour and 15 minutes. Yorke said after the meeting that nothing that came out of the executive session could be made public at this point.

The next school board meeting is Monday, March 23 at 6 p.m.