Achievements: Local students named to dean’s list
Christine Bieber of Cutchogue has earned a place on the fall semester dean’s list at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, where she is a pre-med/biology major. • The following local students have been...
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Southold School District to hire full-time security guard
The Southold School District plans to hire a full-time security guard, the first in the district’s century-old history. Superintendent David Gamberg made the announcement at Wednesday evening’s Board...
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Bishop McGann-Mercy High School to close
The Diocese of Rockville Center will be closing Bishop McGann-Mercy High School at the end of this school year. High school students not yet graduating can transfer to St. John the Baptist Diocesan...
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‘Heartbroken’ Mercy community stunned by news of school’s closure
Bishop McGann-Mercy High School senior Sarah Dern arrived home from school earlier than usual Monday, because after-school activities were canceled. There, the phone rang almost immediately with a...
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North Fork students join students across the country in walkout
Dozens of students walked out of Greenport High School at 10 on Wednesday morning to honor the victims of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The...
View ArticleBishop John Barres visits closing high school Friday
Bishop John Barres of the Rockville Centre Diocese is making an unannounced visit to Bishop McGann-Mercy High School Friday morning, the school’s administration office confirmed. He is speaking to...
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New Suffolk School may remain open next year, pending settlement
The New Suffolk Common School may be able to educate students in the red schoolhouse next year after all. A vote scheduled for March 27, when district voters were to decide whether to send students in...
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Declining enrollment cited for lower budget total in Mattituck
The Mattituck Board of Education was presented with a $40.7 million budget for the 2018-19 school year at Thursday’s school board meeting. The tax levy is 0.26 percent, or $93,062, keeping the...
View ArticleGreenport School District faces cuts if state aid fails to match budget...
The Greenport School District is depending on state aid to keep its proposed 2018-19 budget under the tax cap. The proposed budget is currently at a $325,000 shortfall, Superintendent David Gamberg...
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North Fork students ‘March for Our Lives’ in D.C., NYC
Inspired by the survivors of mass shootings around the country, locals showed their support for gun control this weekend by walking in March for Our Lives events Saturday in Washington, D.C., and New...
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Heartsick supporters of soon to close Catholic schools hit the streets
Hundreds of people were dressed in green to celebrate their Irish heritage at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Hampton Bays Saturday. But one specific group, over 150 people strong, was decked out in...
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Southold School District planning $29.8M budget for 2018-19
The Southold Union Free School District will maintain a budget just under $30 million for the 2018-19 school year, administrators said during a presentation last month. The proposed $29.8 million...
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Through stained glass, Oysterponds students leave mark on school
Walking the halls of Oysterponds Elementary School, guests are greeted by hundreds of pieces of glistening blue, white, brown and green stained glass. They were put together by students in grades K...
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Southold/Greenport robotics team earns trip to world championships
Robots whizzed around the arena at Hofstra University last weekend, strategically picking up large yellow cubes and placing them on a scale. The winner would be the team whose robot tipped the scale...
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Local students participate in walkouts for victims of school shootings
About two dozen Mattituck High School students stood around the school’s flagpole Thursday morning, 13 of them holding daffodils. Each of those 13 students read out the name of a victim of the...
View ArticleMattituck-Cutchogue BOE adopts $40.6 million budget
The Mattituck-Cutchogue Board of Education adopted a $40,676,947 budget for the 2018-19 school year at its meeting Thursday. The budget, which was approved with a 5-0 vote, as board member Barbara...
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LaValle, Palumbo discuss gun control with North Fork students
High school students from Greenport and Southold filed into the library at Mattituck High School Friday, joining Mattituck students seated in chairs forming a “U.” Seated across from the students was...
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New Suffolk teacher resigns; teaching assistant to be laid off
New Suffolk teacher Martha Kennelly, whose job was cut in 2015 and who was reinstated last August, will resign from the district effective July 1. Robert Cohen, the school district’s attorney, made...
View ArticleSouthold School Board adopts $29.9 million budget
The Southold Board of Education adopted a $29,981,000 budget for the 2018-19 school year at its meeting last Wednesday, April 18. The proposed spending plan is a 1.84 percent, or $541,000, increase...
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Will McGann-Mercy stay open as independent Catholic high school?
Bishop McGann-Mercy High School may have found its Hail Mary pass. During a Friday meeting with two parents, Bishop John Barres said he was open to the idea of a future Catholic school, independent...
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