Journalist turned novelist releases A Girl Like You
Jack Rightmyer
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Author Cari Scribner is one of those people who refuse to give up. She has wanted to be a writer since she was in third grade when her teacher at Blue Creek Elementary School, part of the North Colonie School District, told her she wrote the best essays in the class. “That teacher took me aside and said I was going to be a writer,” said Scribner. “I believed her. She was my teacher.”
She eventually attended The College of Saint Rose where she majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. “While there I wrote everything, a screenplay, haikus, even advertising copy. The writing classes were very specific, but I found the conciseness of journalism to be my calling.”
North Colonie grades K-12 fully remote due to staff shortage
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School buses are driven out onto Watervliet Shaker Rd. after leaving Shaker High School on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Colonie, N.Y.(Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
Just one week after returning to the classroom following winter break, North Colonie Central Schools has shifted all grades to remote learning due a staff shortage.
The district announced that Shaker High School was on pause last week. Notices followed this week about the middle school and elementary schools shifting to remote learning. All in-person learning is expected to resume Jan. 19.