
February 12, 2025
Animal Science students at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center recently played pathologist to some dead Conures birds. Niagara Career and Technical Education teac...

February 11, 2025
When retired City of Buffalo firefighter Gary Schultz saw that the Lackawanna Fire Department was auctioning off an old ladder firetruck, he could not let it go to scrap. His b...

February 3, 2025
Recently at the Orleans/Niagara BOCES’ Conference Center, school superintendents, chief school officers and school resource officers underwent training with the Niagara County S...

January 28, 2025
Orleans/Niagara BOCES is very fortunate to have trained specialists, such as occupational therapists and physical therapists, to work with our students. Thanks to these profess...

January 24, 2025
Thank you to Dan Yousett, the Engineering and Development Manager of Voss Manufacturing and Allison Sharpe, the Director of Niagara County Dream It Do It WNY who were recently at ...

January 21, 2025
We now have three new special program classes at Errick Road Elementary in the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District. Program Coordinator Shannon Baccari says, " We are deli...

December 11, 2024
Susan Staddon's Graphic Communications class was tasked with creating a new sign for the Tree Nursery located at the Ellicott Island Bark Park. The Niagara Career and Technical E...

December 11, 2024
When the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center’s VIP/STEP Food Service students first dreamed up the idea of a food truck, Mrs. Theresa Bettinger, our dedicated culinary a...

November 21, 2024
Lily Fisher, a young author, recently shared a book she wrote, We Can Always Be Kind with the Orleans/Niagara BOCES’ Newfane Learning Center (NLC) students. The Counselor team a...

November 19, 2024
Orleans/Niagara BOCES ENL (English as a New Language) teacher Katie Leven has won the 2024 NYS TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Baecher Teacher Leadershi...

November 14, 2024
For her first year at the Niagara Academy, Spanish teacher Kim Dumond has introduced a new holiday to the students; the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead is traditionally celeb...

November 4, 2024
A North Tonawanda Learning Center student, Harrison Cotton, was recently recognized by New York State Assemblyman Angelo Morinello (Niagara Falls – District 145). Assemblyman Mo...

October 29, 2024
We are so proud of our Orleans Learning Center (OLC) students and staff! They were invited to kick off Red Ribbon Week by wearing red or their favorite sports jersey to "Team Up ...

October 25, 2024
Four classes from the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center recently spent a day on campus at Villa Maria College. Teachers Jennifer Manning (Animation, Film & VFX), Mich...

October 22, 2024
Town of Cambria, NY - On Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, the Niagara County Communications Center received a 911 phone call reporting a male walking down Saunders Settlement Road in t...

September 25, 2024
T eacher Bill Rakonczay and his Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering students at the Orleans Career and Technical Education Center, will have their names in space next year at th...

September 18, 2024
Orleans/Niagara BOCES Building Trades teacher Matt Anastasi says he will never forget when he became a teacher at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center in 1999. “Scott...

August 22, 2024
The Orleans/Niagara BOCES Board of Education has appointed Taweepon Farrar, Ed.D, to be the next District Superintendent of the Orleans/Niagara BOCES. Dr. Farrar was the Super...

August 19, 2024
At the August 14 th Orleans/Niagara BOCES Board of Education meeting, Tricia Andrews, a representative from NYSSBA (New York State School Board Association) presented the boar...

July 8, 2024
Dr. Clark Godshall, Senior New York State BOCES District Superintendent and Chief Executive Officer of the Orleans/Niagara (O/N) BOCES announced his retirement effective June 30, 2...