COVID-19 Report Card goes live; in-person classes begin at Southold
A dashboard that tracks the number of COVID-19 cases at each school in New York went live earlier this week. The COVID-19 Report Card published by the State Department of Health is a searchable...
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Students, parents urge Section XI to bring back sports; Mattituck to start...
A small group of student-athletes gathered in front of Mattituck High School Friday evening to deliver a big message: Let us play! Following the lead of larger rallies held around Suffolk County, the...
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After losing scholarship, Riverhead grad looks to share her story to help others
As an education specialist and advisor, Anastasia Gavalas has spent her career consulting with families and schools on a full spectrum of issues tied to education. Part of her expertise, she said,...
View ArticleSouthold superintendent, board members address delayed school opening
Southold School District Superintendent Dr. Anthony Mauro conceded Wednesday that he made the “wrong decision” when he hosted a large group staff meeting in the days before school was expected to...
View ArticleA true Greenporter says goodbye to her sweet job
The woman who considers her job in the Greenport Athletic Department to be a treat had been distributing treats herself for years. A crystal bowl that sat on Joan Heaney Dinizio’s desk in the athletic...
View ArticleGreenport School District to close building Tuesday after positive COVID-19...
A Greenport High School student tested positive for COVID-19, according to Superintendent Marlon Small. Mr. Small, in a letter to Greenport families that was posted on the district website, said that...
View ArticleMattituck-Cutchogue School District says grade 7-12 will be remote-only...
Saying one student has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Mattituck-Cutchogue School District notified parents Thursday night on a robo call that grades 7-12 will be remote learning only on...
View ArticleGreenport senior spent summer building DIY ventilator she hopes will save lives
For many young students, figuring out how to spend summer vacation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic was an arduous task. For Emily McInnis of Greenport, the break was spent helping a local...
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Spirit’s Promise offers solution for back-to-work parents with a micro-school
Since its inception in 2010, Spirit’s Promise Equine Rescue has served as a rescue center for horses and farm animals. Now Spirit’s Promise wants to come to the rescue of parents of young...
View ArticleMattituck student has solar solution to charging devices
At some point in the not-too-distant future, grateful Mattituck High School students who don’t know and had never met Piper Altman will be thanking her. Ms. Altman, a sophomore at the school, will...
View ArticleGreenport secondary students move to remote learning Thursday
All secondary students (grades 7-12) at Greenport School will move to remote learning Thursday after a high school student tested positive for COVID-19. The student was last in the building, which is...
View ArticleMattituck unveils plan to bring back high school students full-time to classroom
Full-time, in-person learning will return for Mattituck High School students. COVID-19 permitting, of course. Students in grades 9-12 will make a staggered return to the classroom for five days a week...
View ArticleOysterponds Elementary proactively moving to distance learning for holiday...
As some schools across Long Island move to full-time in-person learning, at least one is proactively headed in the opposite direction. The Oysterponds Board of Education voted unanimously last week to...
View ArticleSouthold School District puts off full reopening until after holidays
The Southold School District is postponing discussions about expanding the amount of time students spend in classrooms until after the holiday season, Superintendent Anthony Mauro announced at last...
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Greenport High School’s student newspaper, The Quill, launches website
Young people don’t read newspapers. The future of the print press looks bleak. Flying in the face of those beliefs, outlined against a generally depressing outlook for the printed word, is a sliver of...
View ArticleMattituck honors alumni who served in military
The Wall of Honor at Mattituck High School grew by a dozen names as the district held its fourth annual Veterans Day ceremony last month. Twelve plaques, each bearing the name of a Mattituck alumni...
View ArticlePorter pride on display with new T-shirts sold to raise money for scholarships
A group of Greenport High School alumni is raising money to promote Porter pride. Sticker decals and T-shirts with a “One Greenport” logo are on sale now and proceeds will support student scholarships...
View ArticleSouthold Drama Club production going virtual this weekend
Last spring, students in the drama club at Southold High School took their final bows as a production of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” closed March 8. “We struck the set that Sunday and...
View ArticleMattituck, Greenport school districts to close Thursday, BOE meetings postponed
Update (9:20 p.m.): The Greenport School District announced it will be closed Thursday due to the heavy snow falling overnight from a nor’easter. Update (8:10 p.m.): The Mattituck-Cutchogue School...
View ArticleSchool Closings: Mattituck High School to go to two-hour delayed start;...
A day after a winter storm dropped more than five inches of snow on the region, most school buildings will re-open where originally scheduled to Friday. In Mattituck-Cutchogue, however, there will be...
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