The NYPD announced Friday that a scholarship fund will be established in memory of auxiliary police officers Nicholas Pekearo and Eugene Marshalik, who were shot and killed last month in Greenwich Village.
The two were on patrol at the time and were unarmed.
The fund will be for auxiliary officers who want to pursue higher education.
A memorial […]

Jennifer Newton remembers the helping hand Pride Stride organizers gave her nine years ago, at a time when she was not sure how she could manipulate her future.
She was a senior at Gloucester High School at the time, and was looking forward to the next step in her life with some anxiety. She knew secondary […]

A 17-year-old Humboldt student has been awarded a scholarship worth more than $60,000 to attend a prestigious college in British Columbia.
Adam Harding will begin a two-year international baccalaureate program at Lester B. Pearson United World College near Victoria, B.C., this fall, living and studying with 200 students from 88 countries.
Harding said he’s looking forward to […]

PITTSGROVE TWP. The Pittsgrove Township Republican Organization is offering its 20th annual Citizenship Scholarship Award.
This award is available for any graduating senior residing in Pittsgrove Township. There is a basic form to fill out with a required essay on what citizenship means. Deadline to file is Friday, May 4.
The scholarship application form may […]

The family of Chester Smith Sr. has announce3d that applications for a scholarship to be given to a 2007 Yerington High School graduating senior in the name of Chester Smith Sr. are now being accepted.
Applications were available as of April 3, 2007 at the YHS Counselor’s office and at the Mason Valley News office at […]

A trip to a college day event at Western Nevada Community College in Carson City proved fruitful last week for a Yerington High School senior as he received a one-semester scholarship to the school.
Jose Gomez said he planned to work for a year before attending WNCC in Fallon but now said he plans to use […]

Hudson Valley residents pursuing a career change into the health care field, or changing their career direction within the health care field may apply for the Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce’s Raymond W. Gordon Healthcare Scholarship.
Applications are due Monday.
Established by the Ray Gordon family and the Chamber, the foundation’s eighth scholarship was created to honor […]

Two Georgia Tech students are the recipients of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Awarded for academic merit, the Goldwater is the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, science and engineering. The winners, Inn Inn Chen and Yixao Zou, are both students in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical […]

The CNMI Supreme Court has denied the Northern Mariana Islands Scholarship Board’s request to compel the trial court to vacate its order pertaining to the production of the board’s records in connection with the lawsuit filed by former Youth Congress senator Roselle Demapan Calvo.
The High Court justices said the scholarship board’s argument does not support […]

In the midst of the 28th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, a Cuyahoga Community College Jazz Studies student has learned that his musical dream has come true: he has received a full scholarship to the prestigious Julliard School. Aaron Kleinstub plays the trumpet. A Post Secondary Enrollment Options Program (PSEOP) student, Kleinstub will graduate from Tri-C’s […]