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‘Safe And Sound’ Storm Drain Mural Painted At Nesaquake Middle School

LIMG May 30, 2024

Photo courtesy of Smithtown CSD A new “Safe and Sound” storm drain mural was painted this week at Nesaquake Middle School which educated students on keeping the environment clean as well as teach them how the water enters the Long Island Sound. The project is the sixth in Smithtown schools and

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Smithtown CSD Faculty Takes On The Harlem Wizards

LIMG December 8, 2023

Photos courtesy of Smithtown CSD On Dec. 6, Nesaquake Middle School teamed up with St. James and Dogwood elementary schools for a fun community family event held at Smithtown High School East. Organized by each school’s PTA presidents, principals, assistant principals and teachers laced up their sneakers for a full court basketball game vs the […]

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Smithtown’s Nesaquake Middle School Students Step Up For Teacher Battling Cancer

LIMG June 26, 2023

Pictured: From left to right: Rick Iurka, Gracyn Catalanotto, Morgan DeBello and Nesaquake Middle School Principal Dan McCabe. Photos courtesy of Smithtown Central School District Nesquake Middle School Social Studies teacher Rick Iurka, who has been battling cancer the last few months, reunited to see faculty and students at the recent moving up ceremony. There […]

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Nesquake Sixth Grader Saves Life Of Newborn Fawn

LIMG June 15, 2023

Photos courtesy of Smithtown CSD Like most middle school students, Anthony Masaitis went to school to take his final exams. But the week of June 14 was anything but normal for the Nesaquake Middle School sixth grader. Anthony went “viral” for rescuing a newborn fawn after she fell in his backyard pool on June 11. […]

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Long Island Paralympian Visits Nesaquake Middle School

LIMG January 18, 2023

Photos courtesy of Smithtown CSD “All of you have a choice in life. To be either average, good or great. I hope from here on out you’ll be great.” Those are the words of Long Islander Rohan Murphy who addressed students at Nesaquake Middle School on Jan. 18. Rohan is an American Paralympian, wrestler and […]

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Mile-long walk for water at Nesaquake

LIMG April 19, 2021

Seventh graders at Nesaquake Middle School in the Smithtown Central School District participated in a walk to raise awareness about the water crisis in South Sudanduring the first two weeks in April. The seventh graders recently read the novel “A Long Walk to Water.” The main character Nya is one of the many girls in […]