Photos: Mattituck students paint like Jackson Pollock
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Mattituck High School art student Phurlamu Sherpa flings paint at the canvas. After studying the work of Long Island artist Jackson Pollock and visiting his studio in...
View ArticlePhotos: Southold School District’s first garden expo
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | Southold students and community members gathered Thursday for the district’s first garden expo. Southold students and community members gathered Thursday morning for the...
View ArticleOysterponds Board reviews technology upgrade plan
JENNNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The Oysterponds school board discussed a tech upgrade plan Tuesday night. Oysterponds Elementary School District officials plan to upgrade the district’s technology...
View ArticleMattituck school board discusses facility improvement plans
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The Mattituck school board met Thursday night and discussed facility improvement plans. Displayed is a student art project made of snowboards. The Mattituck-Cutchogue Board...
View ArticleArt class receives wisdom from area seniors
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | A Greenport art student works with local sculptor Arden Scott during a workshop at Brecknock Hall last week. In the expansive dining room of the stone mansion that is Brecknock...
View ArticleWrite-in campaigns launched for open Mattituck school board seat
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Jeff Smith confirmed this week that he’s running in Tuesday’s Mattituck school board election. Suddenly the Mattituck school board election is no longer a sure thing. Although...
View ArticleSee who’s running for your school board
School board seats are up in each local school district Tuesday, but only Oysterponds features a race. Oysterponds The Oysterponds School District not only has the most candidates running in this...
View ArticleThis is the school budget you’ll vote on Tuesday
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Students attend Greenport School on the first day last September. Budgets in all local school districts will be voted on Tuesday. North Fork residents will go to the...
View ArticleSquire on why he withdrew from school board race
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Charles Squire confirmed Tuesday he’s withdrawing from today’s Oysterponds school board election. Orient resident Charles Squire released the following statement about...
View ArticleRecap: North Fork budgets pass by wide margins, runoff for Oysterponds board...
All five school districts on the North Fork saw their proposed budgets pass by Tuesday night by wide margins. In the school board race for three open seats at Oysterponds, two candidates —...
View ArticleSouthold elementary students grow and harvest organic veggies
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | State Board of Regents member Roger Tilles (third from left) tours the Southold school garden with Superintendent David Gamberg and students Emiliann Palermo (left) and...
View ArticleSouthold BOE to discuss sharing tech director with Greenport
FILE PHOTO | Greenport Superintendent Michael Comanda, left, and Southold Superintendent David Gamberg recently announced a joint agreement to share a technology director. The Southold Board of...
View ArticleFeatured Letter: Thank you, teachers
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | Riley Avenue School in Calverton. To the Editor: With graduation approaching, I cannot forget the dedication, inspiration and guidance of specific teachers and programs that...
View ArticleUpdate: Mattituck Schools releases results of write-in election
FILE PHOTOS | Jeff Smith, left, and Terri Boyle Romanelli launched write-in campaigns for Tuesday’s Mattituck-Cutchogue school board race. Mr. Smith won with 79 votes. UPDATE: 2:38 P.M....
View ArticleLittle Red Schoolhouse gets artsy with kids help
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | The Greenport students who decorated the Little Red Schoolhouse for Memorial Day Tuesday with Greenport Recreation Center coordinator Joanne Jackson. Greenport’s Little Red...
View ArticleA challenge of art and science for high school students
EAST END SEAPORT MUSEUM COURTESY PHOTO | Olyvia Vayer submitted this circular piece for the East End Challenge. At the intersection of science and art lies the East End Challenge. The art competition...
View ArticleOysterponds school board runoff election set for June 25
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Oysterponds school board president Dorothy-Dean Thomas will face Betsy Dzenkowski in a June 25 runoff election. A June 25 date has been set for the Oysterponds school board...
View ArticleThe Quill: Read the latest edition of Greenport paper
Greenport High School students recently put the finishing touches on final edition of The Quill, a student newspaper. Led by advisor Mindy Viggiano, the students produced the paper under...
View ArticleThe Sentinel: Read Southold’s student paper
The latest edition of Southold High School’s award-winning student newspaper, The Sentinel, just hit the presses. Newspaper adviser James Stahl launched the paper 18 years ago. Under the direction of...
View ArticleAutism couldn’t keep him from top of class
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Alex Whittle is Greenport’s valedictorian, a remarkable accomplishment for a young man who has battled with autism his entire life. Alex Whittle skipped to one of his...
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