HIT: To Port Byron Middle School for trying a new approach with its fifth- and sixth-grade classes this year.

Instead of having fifth-graders remain in a traditional classroom setting, wherein one teacher is responsible for most of their subjects, the fifth- and sixth-grade classes will move to different rooms to have different subjects taught by different teachers.

The plan is designed to prepare the students for middle school, when they will move to different classrooms throughout the day.

We're glad to see educators willing to try new approaches, and we hope the students will benefit from the change.

HIT: To Union Springs resident Christine Moulton being appointed executive director of the National Women's Hall of Fame.

The Seneca Falls hall of fame and museum, created on the site of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848, is an important national site, sitting in our own backyard.

Moulton had been serving as acting director since 2006.

MISS: To a 2:44 a.m. crash in Auburn this week that sent four men to area hospitals.

We're not surprised, but certainly discouraged, that police suspect the driver may have been drinking before the large pickup truck slammed into a tree.

Nobody was killed this time, but one of the injured men remained in serious condition more than 24 hours after the crash. Whenever drinking and driving get together the drive often turns out tragically.

HIT: To the volunteers who brought their kayaks and canoes to Cross Lake this week to help with a water chestnut problem there.

The plants can quickly take over a small body of water, with large leaves that deter swimmers and boaters from enjoying the outdoors.

About 20 volunteers pulled plants out by hand Tuesday, doing what they could to try to slow the plants' progression.