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By Robert Cairns on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 - 2:45 pm
Above: Delaware Academy's football field was illuminated on Friday for a nighttime football game at the school. Photos by Robert Cairns.
“Friday Night Lights” have become synonymous with high school football, but home games at Delaware Academy in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 7:39 pm
Above: Students at Delaware Academy in Delhi celebrate the installation of solar panels at the school's sugarhouse. Photo via Catskill Solar's Facebook page.
In the Catskills, students are tackling climate change in big ways. At Delhi's Delaware Academy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 - 8:14 pm
From the Delaware Academy/Delhi Central School District website:
Early dismissal 11:30 AM
Delaware Academy CSD at Delhi will be closing early. We will be conducting early dismissal at 11:30am. The board meeting for Monday evening has been postponed to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Tractor Day, 2011. Photo by Jill Ogden. Used with permission.
Last Thursday was "Tractor Day" at Delaware Academy in Delhi, which means that the segment of the student body with the most rural pride drove to work in and on farm machinery, sometimes from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jun. 19, 2010 - 1:15 pm
Richard HughesAfter a tumultuous year as the principal of Delhi's Delaware Academy and Central School, Richard Hughes is leaving to become the superintendent of the Otselic Valley School District, according to the Chenango County Evening Sun:
A permanent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:22 am
Once a year, the students of Delaware Academy in Delhi drive their tractors to school in a show of rural pride. This morning, a line of tractors arrived at school in time to do a ceremonial lap around the lawn before classes started. One of them, pictured... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 3:48 pm
Tonight is the May meeting of the Delhi Central School District Board of Education, which governs a school district that is angrily divided over Delaware Academy High School principal Richard Hughes, who has been accused by some parents of running the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:42 pm
A few dozen Delaware Academy parents and students gathered at the American Legion in Delhi on Monday, March 15 to ask the state to remove Richard Hughes from his post as the Delaware Academy Central School High School principal.
The turnout, of about 35... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Public school lunch is generally a joyless affair: mystery-meat sloppy joes, frozen tater tots, canned string beans that last saw dirt and sunlight sometime in the Clinton administration. But for one glorious day this week, Delaware Academy students in... Read more
