The Cazenovia Central School District community vote on the 2013-14 budget proposal is today, Tuesday, May 21. Polls are open until 9 p.m. in the auxiliary gymnasium in Cazenovia Middle School, 31 Emory Ave., Cazenovia.

The hits just keep on coming for Cazenovia High School senior Brody Kellish.

First, Brody got word in mid-April that he had won a full scholarship to Duke University. The Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship covers full tuition, room, board and fees for four years, plus the opportunity to attend a six-week summer program at the University of Oxford.

Next, he learned he was one of 1,000 distinguished high school seniors who won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by some 200 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.

Cazenovia High School agriculture students brought home an armful of awards from the New York State FFA Convention held May 2, 3 and 4, at Albion High School.

In all, 28 students represented Cazenovia at the annual convention, which drew more than 1,300 FFA members, advisers and guests.

Get out your calendars!

Because Cazenovia Central Schools used fewer than the maximum number of permitted snow days this winter, the Board of Education has agreed to adjust the district calendar to reflect a “give-back” day on Friday, May 24.

This means all Cazenovia schools will be closed that day, unless the district needs to close for a natural disaster or any other unexpected reason between now and then.

Check your mailbox soon for the Cazenovia Central School District budget newsletter.

The newsletter is packed with information on the 2013-14 budget proposal, including:

• An overview of the $26.4 million proposed budget;
• Answers to frequently asked budget questions;
• A breakdown of 2013-14 revenue sources and proposed expenditures; and
• Voter information.

Each quarter, Cazenovia Middle School honors students who display good manners, a positive attitude, consideration for others, cooperative behavior and responsibility toward self and school in an exemplary manner. Each of these stars is named a “Citizen of the Quarter.”