🦅 | Binghamton's two resident eagles that nest along the Susquehanna River officially have new names - Thomas & Tina! The Mayor stopped by Ms. Helm's first grade class at Thomas Jefferson to let them know the names they submitted received the most votes in the recent naming contest! #BPatriotProud
🛝 | All elementary students are invited to join NoMa for an end-of-school-year event at Walnut Street Park on Tuesday, June 24th! This event is FREE! #BPatriotProud
😎 | There's still time to sign up for Binghamton City School District's summer camps! Follow the link to see the complete list of summer camps available and sign up your student today ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y4tmddjr #BPatriotProud
👕 | Show your Patriot Pride for our BCSD Dancers - order your shirts today by visiting https://tinyurl.com/3bd3sb7z
Proceeds benefit Binghamton Dance! #BPatriotProud
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father figures in our lives! #BPatriotProud
🎈🎉 | Only thing better than a Friday is a FUN day! TJ Fun Day at Jefferson left nothing but smiles yesterday! #BPatriotProud
🎓 TOP 2️⃣5️⃣ OF 2025 | Your valedictorian of the Class of 2025 is Colin McGovern! During his time at BHS, Colin was an active member of Mathletes, French Club, and Steel Drum Band. After receiving his diploma, he'll be heading out to the west coast to double major in Math and French at Stanford University.
Colin's advice to incoming freshmen to use high school as an opportunity to explore their interests through academics and extracurriculars.
Congratulations to Colin and all of our Top 25 #BPatriotProud
🖼️ | Congratulations to Aanya from Thomas Jefferson who won first place in the Binghamton region for the 2025 CCEW Illustrated Poem Contest! Her artwork & poem about glaciers now advances to the national competition! #BPatriotProud
⚾ | Play ball! Before the Binghamton Rumble Ponies Friday evening game, 90 elementary students from all seven elementary schools performed the Star Spangled Banner under the direction of Robert Crissman, Andrew Garrett, Elise Hoerbelt, and Beth Shanfelt... and they did an amazing job! #BPatriotProud
🎓 | Take a look at our soon-to-be graduates that visited their old elementary and middle schools during last week's Grad Walk! Click here to see the photos: https://tinyurl.com/4nw3cxfv
👏 | Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Senior Awards! See the photos here: https://tinyurl.com/4rh2vr86 #BPatriotProud
There's still time to sign up for Binghamton City School District's summer camps! BCSD offers more than 30 free summer camps during July for students who will be in grades 1-12 during the 2025-2026 school year. Follow the link to see the complete list of summer camps available and sign up your student today ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y4tmddjr #BPatriotProud
📖 | It's been a tradition for BCSD 5th graders for nearly 20 years - read about this year's Rod Serling Day and how students were immersed in the life & work of the Twilight Zone creator ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/fx6fxz6s #BPatriotProud
🐮 | Edwards Petting Farm has been visiting students throughout the District as part of a Challenge Enrichment lesson - thanks for providing us an up-close look of animal life! #BPatriotProud
🎉🌳 | Party in the Park! Thomas Jefferson students visited Recreation Park for a day full of fun! #BPatriotProud
🎉 FUNDRAISER | There will be a fundraiser for the BHS After Prom Party TOMORROW at the Doug's Fish Fry taking place at Hatala Orthodontics (165 Riverside Drive) from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.. All proceeds from the bake sale there will go toward the After Prom Party. Come out to support!
‼ | Have you voted yet? If not, there's still time to vote on the 2025-2026 BCSD proposed budget... Polls close at 8!
For more information on the proposed budget, the two candidates running for one open seat on the BCSD Board of Education, and polling locations, take a look at this year’s budget newsletter by clicking here ➡ https://5il.co/3f86s
🥍 | Gone, but never forgotten ❤ Our community showed out to honor the life and legacy of BHS lacrosse alum and fallen Binghamton firefighter JR Gaudet.
A plaque which will be installed this summer in his honor was unveiled, and his son Charlie, who is following in his dad's footsteps as a lacrosse star, got to hold up a jersey with JR's #9 jersey #BPatriotProud
Go here to see all the pictures from the event ➡ https://tinyurl.com/5ftbctwm
📝| Even though ALL students qualify for free breakfast & lunch, filling out a school nutrition income eligibility form is still important! These forms impact school funding, mental health resources, afterschool programs & more. Learn more & fill our yours today: https://tinyurl.com/3u24nday #BPatriotProud
🌻 | A beautiful day on Saturday cleaning up our community in honor of our friend Harper Stantz! We had groups at each of the district's ten school buildings cleaning up the school grounds and surrounding neighborhoods - check out the photos here: https://tinyurl.com/43am3xec Thanks to everyone who volunteered their time! #BPatriotProud
