The Scripps National Spelling Bee takes the stage this weekend on national TV, and Post-Standard | syracuse.com’s representative, Emma Sroka, hopes her third time in the event is a charm. The 12-year-old Auburn Junior High School student competes along with 209 other contestants, 300 fewer than previous years. What normally is a three-day event has turned into nearly a month-long virtual and .
Auburn girl, 13, killed in Syracuse stabbing
A 13-year-old girl killed in a stabbing Monday in Syracuse was from Auburn, police said.
The Syracuse Police Department on Tuesday said Naj ee Wright was stabbed to death by 16-year-old girl from Syracuse, Xomara Diaz. The 16-year-old has been charged with first-degree manslaughter and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. She is being held at a juvenile detention facility in Erie County, and the investigation is continuing.
Wright was a student at Auburn Junior High School.
Syracuse police said they responded at about 5:55 p.m. to a call of a stabbing on West Onondaga Street. Wright was taken by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital, by AMR Ambulance, where she later was pronounced dead.
AUBURN â When students entered the gymnasium Wednesday, it wasn t for a physical education class.Â
The Cayuga County Health Department hosted a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Auburn Junior High School â the latest in a series of clinics this week at local school districts. On the other side of the city, East Hill Medical Center and Auburn Fire Department EMTs held a clinic for students at Auburn High School.Â
In three days, East Hill and the health department have administered first doses of the Pfizer vaccine to 522 students in six Cayuga County-area school districts. The health department will visit Cato-Meridian on Thursday and Union Springs on Friday, while East Hill will hold its next clinic at Jordan-Elbridge on Thursday. East Hill said it plans to administer 101 doses at the J-E clinic.Â
This past weekend, students at Auburn Junior High School put on a fabulous performance of "Peter and the Starcatcher," highlighting just some of the amazing talent we have in our