Winter arrives with fanfare as Christmas, Chanukah and New Year’s Eve all take place within days of the first day of the season. Parties and shopping may distract people from the weather around them, but after resolutions are made and the decorations are packed away, it’s not long before it’s
Pictured: From left, Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School students Theresa Soraire, Emily Newman and Annamaria Pepe recently earned their Girls Scouts Gold Award. Photo courtesy of Copiague School District Three seniors from Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School recently earned their Gold Awards, the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA which […]
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Seventh and eighth grade English as a New Language students from Christy Villalobos’ class at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School recently visited John Quincy Adams Primary School to spend time with a group of younger ENL students for Groundhog Day. The middle school ENL students began by […]
Photo courtesy of East Islip School District The East Islip High School girls winter track team won the Suffolk County girls indoor track and field small school championships on Feb. 4 for the first time in school history. The competition took place at Suffolk Credit Union Arena at Suffolk Community College’s Brentwood campus. Grace Micali […]
Pictured: Luka Bianco, left, Dominic Recher, center, and Camden Cook made their 100-day gumball machines with finger-painted dots. Photos courtesy of the Wantagh School District The 100th day of school marked an important moment for kindergartners at Forest Lake Elementary School in the Wantagh School District. They showed their durability as they only have about […]
Pictured: Author and illustrator Dan Yaccarino spoke to East Lake Elementary School students as part of the annual author residency. Photos courtesy of the Massapequa School District With experience as both a writer and an illustrator, Dan Yaccarino gave students great insight into the creation of children’s books during his visit to East Lake Elementary […]
Photo courtesy of the Bethpage Union Free School District Bethpage students from Kramer Lane Elementary School celebrated Nutrition Month in art class by decorating paper bags with drawings and nutritional facts. The paper bags will be distributed as “lunch bags” to patients at Syosset Hospital and Plainview Hospital.
Photo courtesy of Smithtown CSD. They’re champions once again. The Smithtown/Hauppauge swim and dive team won its second consecutive Section XI Suffolk County championship on Feb. 10 at Stony Brook University. The team, which set a new county record for the 200 freestyle relay, now advances to the New York State Championship in March.