Police Say Marijuana Was Placed in Brownie Brought to High School. Two Fayetteville-Manlius High School students face drug charges after a teacher's aide at the high school ate a brownie laced with marijuana and became ill, police said. [Name redacted] , 17, of Genesee Street, Fayetteville, is accused of bringing the brownie into the school Friday. She shared the brownie with the school aide. "Her decision to give it to someone else was a spur-of-the-moment type of thing," said James Chupaila, the high school principal. [continues 237 words]
Dewitt Teaches From Revised Curriculum DARE is changing. Following studies showing the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program is ineffective, the national organization that oversees DARE programs is testing a new curriculum aimed at seventh- and ninth-graders and has changed the program offered since 1983 to fifth- and sixth-graders. Jim Hildmann, an investigator and youth services officer with the DeWitt Police Department, has started teaching the new curriculum to fifth- and sixth-graders. "I really like the new way," he said. [continues 880 words]
The chemicals used by criminals to produce methamphetamines are a growing concern for the agency that monitors chemical spills across the state. Wanda Lizak Welles, a toxicologist and section chief for hazardous substances events surveillance for the state Health Department, will discuss the growing problems concerning illegal laboratories when she speaks at F.I.R.E. 2003, the annual conference of the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs. Welles will speak at 11:30 a.m. today in Building 2, Room 5. [continues 348 words]
