2018

Winners of Writing Contests Announced

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Congratulations to the winners of WSKG’s 2018 PBS KIDS Writers Contest and Youth Writers Contest! 

Kindergarten
1st Place | Helicopter Rescue by Conrad Gopie
2nd Place | The Three Little Lambs and Hungry Fox by Joshua McKernan
3rd Place | Snakes and Sunflowers by Alice Abaya

First Grade
1st Place | Should You Get a Cat? by Amelia Parks
2nd Place | Lost and Found by Felicity Clarke
3rd Place | My Fun Snowy Day by Abigail Okogu

Second Grade
1st Place | Mary’s Roses by Grace Jean-Baptiste
2nd Place | A Vernal Pool Adventure by Frances Miller

Third Grade
1st Place | Grussel by Kyleigh Weiland
2nd Place | The True Story of Dorothy by Heyan Chung
3rd Place | Pick Me Pops by Evelyn Szeliga
Honorable Mention | The Mysterious Amazon River by Hudson Scaglione 

Fourth Grade
1st Place | U.S. Time Zones by Nehemiah Jahn
2nd Place | The Tiniest Royals by Reese Dimon

Fifth Grade
1st Place | Miss Literal by Inaaya Sethi
2nd Place | Stuck in Time by Ryan Witt
3rd Place | Tiny Tina by Lilia Mack
Honorable Mention | Hot Sauce Man by Ian Clark

Sixth Grade
1st Place | Dying Music by Ian Chung
2nd Place | The Case of the Missing Stanley Cups by Keyahn Sethi
3rd Place | A Typewriter of Truth by Kate Fehrer

 

 

 

2018

Cuomo Faces Challenges In 2018 And Beyond

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Governor Cuomo has not officially announced a candidacy for a third term, but has told everyone he’s planning to run next year. But it’s hard to talk about Governor Cuomo’s potential race for reelection next year without discussing the Presidential race in 2020, and whether Cuomo will be a candidate. The governor for his first six years in office, kept a low national profile, but in 2017 he stepped up his appearances on national news shows, and took on President Trump on issues like climate change. He’s been very vocal in his opposition to the federal tax overhaul, calling it a “dagger in the heart” of the state, and saying it  penalizes blue, high tax states like New York. “They’re using New York as a piggy bank to pay for the tax cuts in other states,” Cuomo said on December 13th.