{"id":259234,"date":"2026-06-08T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259234\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:08","slug":"herkimer-middle-school-teacher-wins-ny-state-vfw-citizenship-award-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259234\/","title":{"rendered":"Herkimer Middle School Teacher Wins NY State VFW Citizenship Award | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Herkimer Middle School Teacher Wins NY State VFW Citizenship Award\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a26d29fe4012.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HERKIMER, N.Y. &#8212; A Herkimer Middle School teacher has been recognized as the top middle school teacher in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Peyton received the Department of New York Smart\/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Award.<\/p>\n<p>She was honored at the Herkimer VFW, where family, friends and local dignitaries watched as she was presented with proclamations from State, County, and Village of Herkimer officials.<\/p>\n<p>The VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award recognizes certified educators who show outstanding commitment to teaching and patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe plays a big part in our post. She&#8217;s a very well-known veteran with our post, and she&#8217;s an excellent teacher in the school system,\u201d Dominick Scalise, Herkimer VFW commander, said.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton is also a veteran who served as an air-med nurse in the Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERKIMER, N.Y. &#8212; A Herkimer Middle School teacher has been recognized as the top middle school teacher in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100901,29126,21269,2966,100903,9,11,10,49,51,50,14747,100902],"class_list":["post-259234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-med-nurse","tag-award","tag-herkimer","tag-herkimer-county","tag-herkimer-middle-school-teacher","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-teacher","tag-vfw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}