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New Suffolk school district tax cap set at 3.5 percent
New York State has set the New Suffolk School District’s tax levy cap at a roughly 3.5 percent increase, the district’s school board reported at Wednesday night’s meeting. Board president Tony Dill...
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Featured Letter: Music education too vital to lose
To the editor: While home on spring break, I heard an awful rumor that the North Fork public schools were strongly considering cutting their music programs. Music being one of my majors, I could not...
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Greenport principal: Nearly half of school ‘mastered’ English regents
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Elementary school principal Joseph Tsaveras (left) presents how students are preparing for state assessments Wednesday night. As Greenport students prepare to take the latest round...
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Southold to embrace social media
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | Southold Superintendent David Gamberg, shown at last week’s budget meeting, said Tuesday he plans to use YouTube to post videos about budget information. After discovering a...
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Mattituck school board to discuss common core, fund balance projection
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Tonight’s Mattituck-Cutchogue school board meeting is at 7:30 p.m. The Mattituck-Cutchogue school board is expected to discuss tonight how the district’s new common core...
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Museum of Natural History now rolling through Long Island
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Anthropologist and archeologist Lisa Stevenson of Aquebogue inside the mobile museum which has exhibits on nomadic people: the Native Americans on Long Island, Montana and...
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Report: Big jump in state aid for North Fork schools
FILE PHOTO | Local school districts are expected to receive restored state aid next year. Although Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $146.6 billion budget released in January cut state aid to each...
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Nine BOE seats to be decided in May election
FILE PHOTOS | Most school board incumbents plan to seek new terms. Most local school board incumbents have recently confirmed their intentions to seek new terms on the May 21 vote, while others remain...
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Greenport, Southold schools to host budget workshops tonight
FILE PHOTO | Tonight’s Greenport school board budget workshop is at 5 p.m. The Southold School district is also hosting a budget workshop tonight. It starts at 7:30 p.m. at Southold High School. Two...
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Cosmetology student dreams of working on cruise ships
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | Danielle Pagano at her mother’s salon in Southold, working on the mannequin head she’s had since she was a child. When the judges of a recent cosmetology competition in...
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Southold robotics team honors Ronan Guyer
SOUTHOLD SCHOOLS COURTESY PHOTO | Southold technology teacher Phil Caputo (left) works with robotics club members Chris Reilly and Caroline Liegey on a robot they named for Ronan Guyer. More than three...
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Oysterponds principal stepping down in June
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Oysterponds principal Françoise Wittenburg, in the STEMS lab with student Nate Busch, 6, of Orient, is leaving the district at the end of the school year. Oysterponds...
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Library association honors two Mattituck educators
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Assistant superintendent and Cutchogue Elementary School principal Anne Smith was named Outstanding Administrator by the Suffolk School Library Media Association earlier...
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Photos: Southold students blast off ‘rockets’
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Southold Elementary School students fired off two-liter soda bottles Tuesday morning as part of a science project. Two-litter soda bottles filled with water and air pressure...
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Greenport school board to adopt 2013-14 budget
PAUL SQUIRE FILE PHOTO | Greenport School District Superintendent Michael Comanda will present his tentative 2013-14 budget tonight. The Greenport Board of Education is expected to adopt Superintendent...
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Students in New Suffolk to learn under multiple teachers
CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | The New Suffolk School Board at Tuesday night’s meeting. Two New Suffolk teachers have proposed a split curriculum for next year, where students will spend time with each teacher...
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Greenport adopts $15.5 million budget; sets tax levy at 3.93%
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The Greenport Board of Education adopted next year’s spending plan Wednesday night. The Greenport Board of Education adopted Superintendent Michael Comanda’s $15.5 million...
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Oysterponds school board to adopt supe’s proposed $5.35 million budget
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | The Oysterponds school board is expected to adopt Superintendent Richard Malone’s proposed $5.35 million budget. The Oysterponds Board of Education is expected to adopt...
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Read Greenport’s student newspaper, The Quill
Greenport High School students recently put the finishing touches on the April 2013 edition of The Quill, a student newspaper. Led by advisor Mindy Viggiano, the students produced the paper under...
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Photos: Mattituck to present “Are Teachers Human?”
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | The Mattituck High School drama club will present “Are Teachers Human” beginning Thursday. Determined to be successful in their new posts, a young principal and an English...
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