Utica City School District

Utica Schools Acting Superintendent Brian Nolan confirmed several allegations made in the investigator's report into Superintendent Bruce Karam on Monday, one day before the report is officially presented to the Board of Education. Karam has been on administrative leave with pay since October of last year.

Update: At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Utica Police said on Facebook that normal educational activities had resumed at Proctor High School. Officers and school staff cleared each room in the building to ensure safety. In providing the udpate information, UPD officials also noted there were similar phony shots fired called at schools across New York State earlier in the day...

UPD says they've taken several of these 'swatting' type calls recently. The most recent incident involved a false claims at a city school.

The Utica School Board has placed an employee on administrative leave and named an acting School Superintendent pending an investigation, according to a livestream of a special board meeting Tuesday night.

The school district and the Utica Police have jointly announced several new protocols to ensure safety and security.

Students in the Utica City School District will be greeted with new concealed weapons detectors when they start the school year in September 2022.

Many people will be back in Utica this weekend for the first time in a while for the city's 45th running of the Boilermaker Road Race, and some new changes downtown will open some eyes, and probably get some people driving the wrong way.

Utica attorney and school board member Joseph Hobika Jr. was elected Utica School Board president on Tuesday night at the board's organizational meeting. Danielle Padula was elected Vice President.Hobika replaced retiring President and former Utica Mayor Louis LaPolla.

Here are some simple questions that the public deserves answers to before giving to the Lou Lapolla "Roast and Toast."

During a Utica School Board meeting late last year, board leadership admitted that a local businessman was aggravating the district with his consistent emails and Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. Now, the businessman, Howard Potter, is asking why it took so long for the district to respond to him, and why he was overcharged for the documents he requested.

Utica Police say they are aware of a social media threat that is being spread nationwide.

All schools in the Utica City School District were placed on lockout just before 1:30 this afternoon.