Celebrating Community
Kiana Brereton and Sky Castro, who are both 6’2″, are the second and third female Summit Academy Charter School athletes to receive Division One basketball scholarships. Castro, who started at Summit in the eighth grade, will be attending St. Peter’s College in Jersey City. Brereton, whose first year at Summit was when she was a freshman, will be going to […]
The event was called The Church: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Kids and adults were involved, and there were three different acts with music (guitar, drums and piano) in between and during each one. “It was more or less looking at the church, what used to happen, comparing it to today, and thinking about how it can be better for the […]
Lerthon Theuma, who lives in Brooklyn, works in advertising at McCann and as a passion project recently did a portrait, with Joan Heo, of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. After the tragic helicopter crash involving Bryant, his daughter and the seven others, they decided they wanted to do a drawing to honor them. They posted it online two days […]
The boys basketball team at Red Hook’s Summit Academy moved to 11-0 with their dominating 102-55 win over Brooklyn Collaborative Studies (BCS) on January 27. BCS, located in Carroll Gardens, dropped to 2-10 in the league. If Summit Academy wins their final three regular season games, they will complete their second consecutive undefeated season in the B division. Summit had […]
The JR Chronicles exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum is one worth the checking out, and you have until May 3 to do so. The show grabbed my attention when I learned that it featured photos and stories from all kinds of New Yorkers. With audio stories from hundreds of people, as well as fascinating pictures of new arrivals, longtime residents, […]
The PS 676 STEAM Room ribbon-cutting event took place on January 24, but this was a day that had been in the works since the beginning of the school year. STEAM refers to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, and the elementary school in Red Hook has recently taken strides to improve its instruction in these fields, culminating in the […]
Red Hook’s Summit Academy Charter School boys basketball team moved to 5-0 in the B division after they dominated Leon M. Goldstein High School for Science on their home court on December 11. Summit’s previous home game had been a three-point win over Adams Academy. They are 2-2 in non-league games. “We beat two A division schools,” Summit coach Phil Grant […]
PS 676 had their holiday gift giving party after the last day of school before Christmas vacation ,but this year it was an even bigger event. The 2019 gift giving-party for the kids was held in the gym for everyone in the school and their siblings, according to parent coordinator Marie Hueston. This was so that there would be more […]
Off the Hook, a Falconworks program at Red Hook’s PS 15, continues to create original youth theater for 11-to-14-year-olds. The latest performances took place in November. There were 15 participants and three different plays (acts). The playwrights, who also act, all live in Red Hook. The authors were Ilse Menke (The Tea), Leryri Crus-Ramirez (The News) and Abigail Romero-Montero (Intoxicated). […]
Natasha Campbell, the founder of Red Hook’s charter school, Summit Academy, spoke eloquently about the consequences of a well-publicized incident on Halloween that involved some local children. After a cellphone robbery allegedly took place in Carroll Gardens, five local teenagers were arrested and taken to the 76th Precinct. While two were immediately released, three of them, the youngest being 12, […]