Thursday, May 10, 2012
Also, the district's preliminary 2012-13 budget is released to the public, an AP test costs decision and other leftovers from a May 9 school board meeting.
Refinancing Leads to Big Savings An Internet bond auction on Wednesday morning has led to big savings for the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, according to Jamie Doyle, of Public Financial Management—the district's financial adviser regarding debt. Doyle spoke at Wednesday night's B-W School Board meeting to reveal that Bank of New York Mellon Capital Markets had won that morning's auction to refinance a general obligation bond that the school board issued in 2005. BNY Mellon's winning interest rate bid was approximately 1.54 percent on $4,945,000, with no bond insurance required due to Baldwin-Whitehall's, as Doyle puts it, "excellent credit rating." Moody's Investors Service has assigned B-W an Aa3 credit rating, which Doyle said is …
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Baldwin-Whitehall School District Office
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Rich Wright is one of four inductees this year.
Already a legend to many, Rich Wright—Baldwin High School's head boys cross country coach and an assistant for Baldwin's girls cross country and boys and girls indoor and outdoor track & field teams—is now officially a Hall-of-Famer. The venerable coach has been inducted into the Pittsburgh Running Hall of Fame. Organized by Pittsburgh Marathon officials, Wright, who lives on Baldwin Borough's Elmwood Drive, is one four members of the Hall's 2012 class, which also includes Kevin Gatons, Joe Sarver and Gary Siriano. Wright, 60, is a 1970 graduate of Keystone Oaks High School who is being inducted as a contributor to the sport in southwestern Pennsylvania. Wright's Hall of Fame biography, as listed on the Hall's website, is as follows: "In …
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Baldwin High School
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Monday, May 23, 2011
DeGregorio, Nurkic, Wright receive accolades.
The Baldwin-Whitehall School District honored its senior student-athletes at an annual banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Fort Couch Road in nearby Bethel Park on Sunday. The district handed out three major awards at that banquet, including the annual Bress and Karpa awards, as voted on by the Baldwin-Whitehall Athletics staff and and head coaches. The 2010-11 female Bress Award winner, recognized as the district's female athlete of the year, was Belma Nurkic of Baldwin High School's varsity girls basketball team. Nurkic, a Duquesne University recruit, collected an assortment of WPIAL and PIAA awards over her four years at Baldwin High, including being honored by a number of local news organizations. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for …
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Jennifer Haffner and Michael DeLyser are recent graduates of Baldwin High School that were both recruited by the Red Flash.
Moving from high-school athletics to NCAA Division I is a big step, but Jennifer Haffner and Michael DeLyser are taking it in stride. Now a sophomore and a freshman, respectively, at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa., Haffner and DeLyser are continuing the success that they had at Baldwin High School in their respective sports. Haffner earned four varsity letters in track & field at Baldwin and three in cross country. A standout runner, she took third in the 800-meter run at the 2009 WPIAL track & field championships. Haffner was recruited to go to Saint Francis before the school's head men's and women's cross country/track & field coach took command of the Red Flash, but that coach sure is pleased that he has her and with her …
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Jean Smith
8:36 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
Other schools around the area have an estimate on what it is going to cost per student before the final budget is approved and after the budget is approved. The estimated budget that Baldwin has on their website does not have this information available for us to see. As they didn't have it for the 2011-2012 school year either after the budget was set. This is information that is important that … more ›