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14 Oct 2024

SHARE the Project’s 35th Thanksgiving Dinner

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  • October 14, 2024
  • The Hastings Historical Society
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  • 1980s, Hastings High School, Love and Care, Uncategorized
Inviting 700 people to celebrate Thanksgiving at the Hastings High School gym and preparing food for several hundred more homeless people in Yonkers sounds like it’d be chaotic, but decades of experience keeps the chaos in check.
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07 Jan 2022

What’s Behind the Yellow Jacket’s Name?

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  • January 7, 2022
  • The Hastings Historical Society
  • 10841 Views
  • 9 Likes
  • Hastings High School

By Barney Smith



Last year, then-freshman Barney Smith asked the Historical Society for information on the derivation of the “Yellow Jackets” as the High School team name. We had fun digging around in old yearbooks and sent him a TON of raw info. This is Barney’s resulting article, […]
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