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BOCES a lifeline for
local school districts
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Dominick Recckio, a social entrepreneur and student educator from Ithaca College, talks the ins and outs of digital marketing with students during an entrepreneur roundtable event at Oxford Academy. The event, which BOCES helped sponsor along with the Oxford School District, Morrisville State College,
and Commerce Chenango, was an opportunity for business-minded individuals to network with entrepreneurs to gain insight on ways to bring innovative
ideas into fruition.
BY SHAWN MAGRATH
Sun Staff Writer
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NORWICH – With a strategy to collaborate with local
schools and communities in
order to strengthen students’
chances of success, DCMO
BOCES has been a valuable
go-to for the 16 school districts throughout its fourcounty footprint. And for all
that BOCES offers, that’s
something not likely to
change.
In fact, school districts are
utilizing services at New York
State’s 37 different BOCES
now more than ever. Facing
increased budget restraints,
coupled with high demand to
offer career and technical
training to students, school
administrators often view
BOCES as a first-class
resource.
The BOCES model is simple at its core. BOCES services are created when two or
more school districts decide
they have similar needs that
can be met by a shared program. BOCES helps school
districts save money by providing opportunities to pool
resources and share costs,
thus driving down the cost
each school district pays.
BOCES is a support service
for local school districts, providing cost efficient services
including printed materials,
collective bidding, and
Career
and
Technical
Education (CTE) programming to high school juniors
and seniors.
“The notion is that a single
school district may want to
utilize services or implement
programs that are just too
costly for their districts to
do,”
explained
DCMO
BOCES COO Gray Stevens.
“CTE programs for example:
Whereas no one or two local
districts may be able to afford
a technical career or program,
it’s much more cost efficient
if you combine a few students
from each school. Soon, you
have enough students for a
class and it becomes much
more cost effective.”
The same is true of necessities like food supplies, printing services, and bidding. If
there are 20 school districts
bidding for food supplies, for
instance, they’re going to get
a much better price bidding
together than if each school
buys supplies individually.
It’s a particularly efficient
model for districts that are on
a tight budget. A total 54
school districts across the
state took part in BOCES’
bidding service program last
year.
“Most of the programming
and services we offer are
growing,” added Stevens.
“This is an era where there
are caps on property taxes,
and state funding is difficult
to maintain. As a conseCONTINUED
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In their own words:
Shelly Reuben
Come with me. We are going to take
a trip into the past. We will stay just a
short time. Then we’ll bounce back to
the here and now.
The year is 1955. More or less. It
could be 1940, 1948, 1959…you pick.
We are in just about any small town in
America. It doesn’t have to be Norwich
and it doesn’t have to be in Chenango
County. It can be where I grew up in
Illinois. Or where you grew up in
Massachusetts, or New Jersey, or even
on Long Island. But it’s a small town
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with a small town movie
theater.
If you were like me and
millions of other kids, you
saved your allowance, or you
babysat, or you mowed
lawns, and come the weekend, you hopped on your
bicycle and rode to the local
movie theater.
We all remember, and if
we’re too young to remember, we have seen images of
those old theaters in the
movies ourselves. Alfred
Hitchcock featured them in
chases with villains running
from the police.
Steve
McQueen’s “The Blob” was a
favorite, because the blob
actually invaded such a theater and threatened to smother and EAT all the people
inside. The scene of hysterical teenagers running for
their lives was a classic.
Countless movie sweethearts fell in love in such
small movie theaters. And
countless moviemakers fell in
love with film by doing exactly what I did. Riding my
bike, staring at a screen, and
becoming enthralled.
The marque was huge,
brightly lighted with hundreds of bulb surrounding
backlighted white glass on
which, in big black letters,
were the titles of the movies
being played: WAR OF THE
WORLDS … THE DAY
THE
EARTH
STOOD
STILL … HIGH NOON.
The box office was small.
The lobby was carpeted. A
smell of popcorn permeated
the air. And the ushers were
usually high school kids,
white gloved and carrying
flashlights as they showed
you to your seat. And the
younger the moviegoer, the
closer he liked to sit to the
screen.
The most wonderful thing
about those old movie theaters, though, was the intimacy. In a sense, it was a funnel. You arrived, you bought
your ticket, and you were
embraced by the walls, the
posters announcing next
week’s attractions, the velvet
robe leading to the ticket
taker, the small lobby with
double doors on either side of
the candy counter, and then,
the pièce de ré·sis·tance, the
actual theater itself. The
usher led you down the aisle
to velvet covered seats that
flopped up to let you in, and
then flopped down as you
burrowed in your seat. Then,
the lights dimmed, music
began to play, and…magic.
Okay. Back to the present.
Movies today can be wonderful, too, and I expect that
youngsters have thrilled to
“Jurassic World” almost as
much as my father’s generation did to the original “King
Kong.” But for them, the
movie experience doesn’t
begin until long after they
arrive at the theater.
First, Mom or Dad has to
arrange a play date and transportation. If a suitable friend
can’t be found, nobody is
going anywhere unless a parent is available. Schedules
are checked on the Internet,
the car is gassed up, and those
who have the itch to see a first
run movie in a real movie theater must arrive by car. Once
there, they have to find a
parking space in a huge,
impersonal,
vast-as-theSahara parking lot.
And the “there” is a barren
box of a building with no razzle dazzle. Yes. The movie
can be good, after enduring
endless messages from movie
management on the screen
about concessions in the
lobby, advertisements, cell
phones, this and that.
It can be a long, long, long
wait for the magic.
But not everywhere. Not
always, and not in Norwich.
What’s that I hear?
Applause? Loud Hoots of
celebration. A resounding,
foot stomping, double-fisted
“Yes!”
We have, here in Chenango
County, only one movie theater, and it is as perfect as any
to which we could time travel
in the past. It is located on
Broad Street in downtown
Norwich, within easy bicycle
ride from any house in town,
and an easy drive in car, pickup truck, or minivan for anyone anywhere with a sense of
adventure and an imagination. The parking is a cinch.
Pull up to the curb. Turn off
your ignition. You’re there.
The theater has a spectacular
marquee, with bright bulbs
spelling out COLONIA, a
multitude of lights surrounding the bold black letters
announcing the movies being
played, and best of all, it even
has light bulbs brightening
the sidewalk under the marquee.
Such fun.
Enter through the lobby
doors.
Burgundy carpets and
caramel walls embrace you.
Art Deco fixtures. Walls
painted with images of
Mickey Mouse and Tinker
bell. A friendly sculpture of
Sylvester the Cat. And dead
center in the lobby, set like a
gem in a tiara, the Colonia’s
original film projector from
the
Golden
Age
of
Hollywood and days gone by.
The popcorn sold in the
concession stand is the best
that money can buy. White
and fluffy, and smelling
of…movies.
The ticket takers are high
school kids, or the theater
owners themselves, or one of
the owners’ children. And
looming in the background,
an elegant gentleman who has
worked as projectionist at the
Colonia for over fifty years
and is ready to answer any
questions.
What’s most marvelous
about this wonderful movie
theater isn’t that it celebrates
and evokes the past. But that
it’s about now. The movies it
shows are first run and first
rate. Do you want to see
“Kung Fu Panda 3” or “The
Revenant” or “Norm of the
North?”
Don’t go to
Binghamton or Johnson City
or Endicott or Oneonta. Go to
the Colonia.
Want to take grandma or
your brother or you parents or
your kids to a movie? Go to
the Colonia.
Want to take your entire
Boy Scout Troop? Your Book
Club?
Your Graduating
Class?
Yep. The Colonia.
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world better to be sitting in
the dark, staring up at a
screen, escaping from too
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holding hands.
Come with me... Better yet;
Go without me. You will have
a wonderful, wonderful time.
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Raymond contributed to 75 nonprofit organizations, as well as concentrated its efforts
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To accommodate Raymond’s ever growing workforce and evolving needs as a leader
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quence, school districts
have been looking at shared
services more and more to
stretch a dollar as far as they
can.”
Of course the mission of
BOCES isn’t limited to providing operational savings.
It’s an educational institution.
Students throughout the
region benefit from 16 CTE
programs at DCMO BOCES
which offer a range of technical training. From automotive
repair, to cullinary, to early
childhood education, there’s
such a wide variety of trade
programs that roughly 46 percent of juniors and seniors
across the DCMO BOCES
district enrolled in a CTE
program during the 20142015 school year.
“These are strong programs
that can train kids to excel,”
Stevens said, citing the push
at the state level for school’s
to offer exceptional, hands-on
technical training for students. “College is obviously a
very important option; but so
is the option of learning a
trade. Having a technical
background that will allow
students to go into a local
company and begin an entry
level, well-paying job with
prospects of advancement is
crucial.”
Increasingly, local employers are looking for a trained
workforce. There’s such high
demand for skilled laborers
throughout the state that in
2014, the Sate Education
Department made milestone
changes
in
graduation
requirements that opened a
Students in the BOCES building trades program learn construction skills though
floodgate of opportunity for
high school students enrolled
in CTE programs. The New
York State Board of Regents
approved regulations establishing multiple, comparably
rigorous assessment path-
ways to graduation for all students. According to the
Education Department’s website, “Multiple pathways recognize the importance of
engaging students in rigorous
and relevant academic pro-
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grams. The recently approved
regulations recognize students’ interests in the arts,
biliteracy, career and technical education, humanities,
and science, technology,
engineering and mathematics
offer to increase the chances
of students getting jobs after
high school, it’s really something that we are looking at
much more closely,” Stevens
said.
If training students weren’t
enough, DCMO BOCES also
offers engaging training sessions for teachers and education
professionals.
Professional development
training sessions prepare
teachers to adhere to educational standards set by the
State Education Department,
and to effectively utilize
classroom resources, including interactive SMART
Boards and other technological resources that are found in
many of today’s 21st century
classrooms.
What’s more, BOCES
works closely with teachers
and school administrators to
convey the wants and needs
of local districts to legislators
in Albany. Helping to connect
the needs of schools to elected officials at the state level is
one of the many ways
BOCES is able to strengthen
local school districts, according to Stevens.
All in all, when it comes to
educational programming
and cost efficiency, BOCES
Submitted Photo is much more than a luxury
for school districts. It’s practically
a
necessity.
a hands-on approach.
Nevertheless, maintaining
(STEM) by allowing an BOCES’ mission comes at a
approved pathway assess- cost. Between the Chenango
ment to meet the students’ campus in Norwich and the
Robert W. Harrold campus in
graduation requirements.”
“If there are things that we Sidney Center, DCMO
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programs we can begin to
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Best of Chenango:
Unadilla MX an international tourist site in
Chenango County
Racers at the Unadilla Valley Sports Complex during the Pro National event are
seen in a pack rounding a corner.
BY CAMERON TURNER
Sun Staff Writer
[email protected]
EDMESTON
–
The
Unadilla Motorsports is home
to one of the more famous
racing tracks for on the eastern seaboard as each year
dozens of states and even a
variety of other countries
make the trip to Edmeston,
NY to enjoy the many racing
events Unadilla Motorsports
has to offer.
“Overall I think it was a
good year (2015), depending
on the event of course, but
most of the events saw a
slight increase in racers,” said
Jill Robinson Vice President
and co-owner at Unadilla
Motorsports.
Robinson noted that each
year rain or shine, there
would be racing happening at
the tracks. She also explained
that the schedule for each
years races stays pretty consistent year in and year out,
with one exception when
every few years they host
Loretta Lynns Area Qualifier.
This
Loretta
Lynn’s
Regional Qualifier event
attracted racers from 23 different states as well as some
even from Canada this last
race season in 2015.
These qualifiers took place
in 32-states all across the
United States in 2015.
Unadilla Motocross has the
reputation and honor of hosting one of only 55 of the Area
Qualifiers in 2015.
This qualifier serves as a
first hurdle racers must cross,
in hopes of eventually qualifying for the National
Amateur Championship at
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with education –
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BOCES employes more
than 420 individuals, resulting in a final payroll of more
than $15.5 million annually.
With so much offered,
BOCES clearly needs solid
footing in terms of leadership. And that’s an area that
saw a major administrative
shakeup last year.
“It’s been a year of transition,” Stevens explained.
In 2015, former DCMO
BOCES
Superintendent
William Tammaro retired,
leaving the institute to search
for a new superintendent.
Unfortunately, recruiting for
a new superintendent is more
involved than putting out a
help wanted ad. BOCES
Superintendents are paid by a
combination of state and
local funds. About 60 percent
of their salary is footed by
BOCES; but the remaining 40
percent is funded by the State
Education
Department.
Subsequently, the State
Education Department has a
lot of clout when it comes to
refilling that administrative
position.
In March, BOCES appoint-
ed an interim superintendent,
Alan Buyck, who also heads
the Broome-Tioga BOCES. A
temporary Chief Operating
Officer position (filled by
Stevens) was created to handle the day-to-day operations
in the absence of a permanent
superintendent. Meanwhile,
state matters are managed by
Buyck.
So what’s the purpose of an
interim superintendent and a
temporary COO position? It
gets
complicated,
said
Stevens. Since the state has so
much say in the search
process for a new superintendent, it can opt for one of
two alternatives: It can either
approve the search for a new
superintendent right away; or
subject BOCES to an indepth study to monitor its
overall efficiency before giving BOCES board members
the green light to search for
someone for the job.
The state decided to study
DCMO BOCES before
approving the search for a
superintendent.
In July, the State Education
Department contracted with
the Rockefeller Institute out
of SUNY Albany to conduct
the three-month-long study.
Surveys were sent to superintendents, administrators, and
faculty in the 16 schools that
comprise the DCMO BOCES
district. They were reviewed
by the Rockefeller Institute
and finalized in November,
but DCMO BOCES is currently awaiting word on the
result of that study.
“We haven’t yet received
approval from the state to
seek a new superintendent,”
Stevens said. “The ideal situation is that we would have
someone begin early in the
summer. Right now, we’re
waiting for the State
Education Department to give
us direction.”
Regardless,
DCMO
BOCES continues its role as
a cooperative education services agency. Stevens said that
looking ahead, BOCES will
keep working in collaboration with local school districts to offer programs to students and teachers, administrators, and the community.
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McNeil Jewelers located in the heart of downtown Norwich has reached a milestone
that many small businesses only dream of reaching. 2016 is the 70th Anniversary of
being in business for McNeil Jewelers.
The beginnings were a struggle in 1946 for The GI Jeweler (Robert D. McNeil) who
attended the Western Pennsylvania Horological Institute of Watchmaking after coming
home from service in WWII in the U.S. Navy and opening a jewelry store in Norwich.
He and his wife Josephine worked diligently in providing the Norwich community service and products that they were proud of. Soon after, Robert’s brother Archie joined
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As business grew so did the size of the store with the addition of more jewelry and
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In 1974 son James joined in the family business as the jeweler after attending the
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Then in 1979 son Patrick returned to Norwich after 2 years of watchmaking training at
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Switzerland.
The “Brothers” have taken the business to the next level of providing in store repair
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We are looking forward to 2016 with excitement as we celebrate our 70th Anniversary
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the Loretta Lynn Ranch.
2016
and
Chenango
County will not be as lucky,
due to the fact that this qualifier is hosted at the Unadilla
raceway on a rotation, every
few years.
“It is kind of the final tear
down. They race to try to get
into the Loretta Lynns
Program, which is at Loretta
Lynns Ranch in Tennessee.
We’ll have to wait a few years
off before we have it again,”
said Robinson.
Unadilla Motorsports does
host a Pro National race each
year in the month of August.
“Pro National is the grand
daddy of them all, and we’ll
have amateur racing around
it. That one is a tough to call,
if the weather is great it’s a
great event, if its not then it is
what it is. We’re still expecting a great crowd again for
that, our advance sale tickets
are already up from last year,”
said Robinson.
Robinson went on to
explain that the Pro National
event in 2015 drew heavy
interest from the eastern
seaboard states as well as
Canada. This Pro National
event isn’t just a domestic
affair however, as countries
such as Argentina, Austria,
Australia, Bermuda, Brazil,
Chile,
France,
French
Guiana, Germany, Great
Britain, Italy, Puerto Rico,
Saint
Barthélemy,
and
Uruguay, all had racers who
were in attendance.
“We really continue to be a
national and international
tourism site, so obviously that
is a good thing for Chenango
County as well,” said
Robinson. “The farther we
draw from, then the more
value that dollar bill they’ll
spend in Chenango County
has.”
The amateur event during
Pro National weekend in
2015 even drew enough fanfare to feature riders from 18
different states, however, in
these events the majority of
the racers are local or semilocal.
Robinson shared the 2016
event dates:
-May 8, 2016 District 3
MX
-May 21-22 Loretta Lynns
Area Qualifier with District 3
MX
-June
10-12
Parts
Unlimited MX Rewind
Vintage MX weekend
-July 15-17 Northeastern
ATV National
-August
12-14
Pro
National MX weekend
-August 13 Pro National
MX
-September 10-11 GNCC
(Grand
National
Cross
Country)
“We’re at the point where
we’re not really getting cute,
we’re not getting fancy. We’re
sticking with what we know
works, and what people are
interested in,” said Robinson.
“don’t reinvent the wheel,
we’re sticking with what we
have, it makes sense and that
is what we’re doing.”
Simon Cudby Photo
Check out the website for
more details on upcoming
events: www.unadillamx.com A racer is seen ramping through the finish line at the Unadilla Valley MX races last year, 2015
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