Sarah Wolpoff
Recent Stories
Two principals who shaped PCSD to retire at the end of the year
The “Taylor Swift” of the Port Chester School District—as they affectionately call themselves—are wrapping up their final tour. And their sentiments are just as bittersweet as many of the popstar’s songs.
Go to the polls, and while you’re at it, vote ‘yes’ on the P.C. and B.B. budgets
We never thought we’d see the day when the Port Chester School District’s Board of Education election was uncontested. Though, perhaps it shouldn’t be so shocking.
A day for the straight plays: P.C. drama students bring home 5 prizes in inaugural ESAG awards
The inaugural Eastern Student Artist Guild (ESAG) awards ceremony on Saturday, May 4, took a step toward changing that status quo. And Port Chester High School students who premiered “12 Angry Jurors” in November 2023 brought home five awards highlighting their dramatic zest.
Companionship on the court: BBHS junior uses tennis to bond with folks with disabilities
Respectfully confined to just one of the four nets, seven girls played on the Harkness Park tennis courts adjacent to Blind Brook High School on May 1, a few minutes after school got out on early dismissal that Wednesday. Between the light exercises, water breaks and a variety of spur-of-the-moment games, they’d get preoccupied by conversation about hobbies, passions and general life.
SUNY Purchase protests end in compromise, a P.C. student on campus calls it ‘liberating’
Sophia Kamensky’s dorm room window was right above the encampment.
Context, perspective and empathy: how teachers tackle controversy
Should academic discussions of polarizing conflicts be avoided in the high school classroom? Or is that exactly the place where they need to be addressed?
Foundation aid: Where P.C. is at and where it’s going
The numbers are in. And while they may seem iffy, it’s not what it looks like. Though the New York State budget was finally approved three weeks after its Apr. 1 deadline, the Port Chester School District—with heavy reliance on state aid—beat them to the punch by adopting its own 2024-25 spending plan after months of Board of Education deliberation on Apr. 16, without concrete funding info at hand.
P.C. school board race uncontested, for now
For the first time since at least 2007—and likely longer—the upcoming Port Chester Board of Education election seems to be uncontested.
A violin virtuoso finds excellence by the age of 8
Sitting in a highchair in his Queens home, Jacob Koyfman couldn’t talk—nor was he expected to. He was a baby. But his family noted early on how he didn’t need words to communicate. Eloquence, for him, even at an early age, was musical.
