Catskills Confidential: Liberty creates liaison spot to help homeless students

Published: 2:00 AM - 09/10/13

The Liberty School District failed to win a federal grant to underwrite a position for someone to work with its homeless students and Livingston Manor's, so the district has created a part-time liaison position.

Both districts had a combined 144 homeless students 119 in Liberty and 25 in Livingston Manor during the 2011-2012 school year. The year before, the number stood at 77.

BOCES used to provide liaison services until the state "reconfigured" the funding, Liberty Superintendent William Silver said.

Roberta Rehwaldt, director of special services, will continue to work with homeless students for Livingston Manor. Liberty's liaison will work about eight hours a week with homeless students, whose parents either are doubled-up with other families or staying in motels and shelters.

"You need someone to be the go-between," Silver said. "Providing resources for them (and) connecting them with other agencies."

Leonard Sparks

The film shot at the Government Center in Monticello and other locations in Sullivan County last month was shrouded in secrecy, but the website Deadline Hollywood described it as a "dark comedy about the nature of fame in the YouTube era."

David Cross, who gained fame as the character Tobias Funke in "Arrested Development," wrote and directed the movie, titled "Hits."

It stars James Adomian, Wyatt Cenac, Jake Cherry, Meredith Hagner, Matt Walsh and Derek Waters, according to Deadline Hollywood.

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