AUBURN — Amid an escalating debate on banning literature both locally and nationally, an Auburn school district committee will review a nonfiction young adult book in the high school s library
The cast of Newsies at Weedsport Jr.-Sr. High School was half an hour away from taking the stage for its final performance last March. Then COVID-19 lowered the curtain before it could even be raised.
This year, though, Weedsport is one of the local school districts that are cautiously dancing around the pandemic in order to make sure the show does go on.
From social distancing and face masks to online ticketing and streaming video, the already complicated process of producing a musical has become significantly more so for those districts. But their students are grateful â grateful they can reclaim one more rite of their educational passage from COVID-19, and grateful they just have something else to do this spring.