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ESBOCES Students Learn To Safely Cross The Street

Learning to carefully cross the street is an important life skill. Jean Warm, physical education teacher at Brookhaven Learning Center, used an ESBOCES Bixhorn Mini Grant to create Safety Town to teach students how to do it correctly. The school staff fabricated a cardboard village filled with shops and businesses in the school gymnasium, where […]
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Color Run Raises Money For Student Scholarships

Photo courtesy of the Three Village Central School District The Three Village community came together on May 4 for a Star Wars-themed color run to raise money for senior scholarships. The “May the Fourth Be With You” course spanned 1.5 miles around Ward Melville High School with multiple color stations placed throughout. Students and families […]
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Northwell Cancer Institute’s Center For Genomic Medicine Opens $3.2M Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory To Identify Targeted Cancer Therapies

The Northwell Health Cancer Institute and its Center for Genomic Medicine announced the opening of Long Island’s first clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (MDL), a $3.2 million 2,800 square foot state-of-the-art facility with cutting edge technology of next-generation sequencing (NGS) that provides point-of-care tumor and patient genomic profiling to inform precision
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Local Vets Honored With Jazz Concert Night In Harborfields

Pictured: Harborfields High School’s jazz band performed at the district’s annual Jazz Cabaret Night. Photos courtesy of Harborfields Central School District Local veterans were recently honored at the Harborfields Central School District’s annual Jazz Cabaret Night, held at the Oldfield Middle School auditorium, honoring those who served and giving them the opportunity to
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Girl Scouts Of Suffolk County Award College Scholarships

Pictured: (l. to r.): Olivia Vigliotti, Troop 1631, Ronkonkoma; Tammy Severino, CEO, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County; Marissa Cilibrasi, Troop 1631, Ronkonkoma.  Photo courtesy of the Girl Scouts of Suffolk County. The Girl Scouts of Suffolk County awarded its annual Past Presidents Scholarships to five young women planning on attending college in Fall 2024. Each Girl Scout
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Idle Hour Elementary Students Build Their Own Communities

Photos courtesy of Connetquot Central School District.   To round out their social studies unit on types of communities, second graders at Idle Hour Elementary School in the Connetquot Central School District created their own urban, rural or suburban landscapes. Each student was asked to choose a community they could envision themselves living in and […]