When Cardinal O’Hara High School says “You belong here,” they mean everyone. This fall the Franciscan-based college preparatory school will welcome special education students to its Tonawanda campus. The school board just approved a program to incorporate students with intellectual and cognitive disabilities into the general education classrooms. The program comes from new principal Joleen […]
Borrowing from “A Christmas Carol,” students from area elementary schools experienced a little from the past, present and future of their education in order to change them for the better. Fifteen schools sent their students to the first ever eighth grade retreat sponsored by the diocesan Department of Catholic Schools. The students had the opportunity […]
TONAWANDA — As part of the recent Catholic Schools Week celebration, Cardinal O’Hara High School decided to congratulate Cardinal O’Hara’s feeder schools by sending a personal note from its students along with a lollipop to students at Catholic elementary schools. St. Andrew’s Country Day School and St. Amelia’s School received Valentine Day cards with a […]
TONAWANDA — Cardinal O’Hara High School is taking aim at a sport just introduced to the school’s curriculum – archery. “Archery is often thought of as a low-impact sport, but it’s one that requires skill, coordination, muscular strength and endurance, especially of the upper and mid-body, and flexibility, as well as power, which is what […]
TONAWANDA — Students at Cardinal O’Hara High School are thinking spring with a new Garden Club, not just to help the environment but to enhance the school and learn hands-on how to garden. The club, directed by science teachers Lyn Porcelli and Erika Doktor, met with Michelle Lockett, community engagement director of Niagara River Greenway […]
TONAWANDA — The board of directors at Cardinal O’Hara High School welcomed six new members at its January meeting at the school. Michael P. Rizzo, ‘80, board president and owner of the MPR Restaurant Group, introduced the new members to the existing board members. Rizzo is on the board of Brighton Place Library and the […]
TONAWANDA — Two seniors from Cardinal O’Hara High School scrambled their way to second place in the Lake Ere-Niagara Regional Science Olympiad Tournament on Feb. 4 at Buffalo State College. The team of Wilson Hendershot and Jacob Joldos competed against teams from 18 area high schools in the “Scrambler” event. For this event, the students […]
An annual celebration of Catholic schools throughout the Diocese of Buffalo returns in the final days of January and first days of February. Catholic Schools Week activities will be held within schools Jan. 30 through Feb. 3. The week will kick off with a special recognition during 9 a.m. Mass Sunday, Jan. 29 at Nativity […]
Father Robert A. Martin, who has served the diocese for 39 years in priestly ministry, died Dec. 20, 2022. Born Dec. 27, 1945, in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, to John and Irene (Sokolowski) Martin, Father Martin attended PS #44, Canisius High School, both in Buffalo. After a year and a half in the U.S. Army, where he […]
TONAWANDA — Members of the junior class at Cardinal O’Hara High School in the Town of Tonawanda officially became the school’s upperclassmen when they received their class rings at a special liturgy and celebration on Dec. 1 in St. Andrew Kim Church, adjacent to the school. The evening began with a Mass at 6 p.m. […]
