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Photos: Greenport High School Class of 2021 celebrates graduation
A tradition that started last year returned for the Greenport High School Class of 2021. The graduates celebrated their graduation Sunday with a parade through Greenport Village en route to the high...
View ArticleLocal students honored with journalism scholarships
Before writing the next chapters of their academic and journalistic careers, some young journalists have picked up another honor to add to their résumés. Three student journalists are being honored...
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North Fork students take home Teeny Awards
More than a dozen local students have a new accolade to add to their résumés: Teeny Award winner. The annual awards program from East End Arts celebrated the best in student theater Sunday evening at...
View ArticleEastern Suffolk BOCES helping special needs students explore career paths
Upon entering a classroom at the Harry B. Ward Technical Center in Riverhead Monday morning, a visitor was greeted by a room full of smiling faces. Perhaps not what one would expect of students in...
View ArticleSuffolk County Health Department to follow CDC guidance on masks in schools;...
In the wake of newly released state guidance, many North Fork schools have not yet made decisions about mask mandates and COVID-19 restrictions for September as they wait for guidance from the county...
View ArticleDepartment of Health sends COVID guidance to schools, here’s what it says
The Suffolk County Department of Health on Monday released COVID-19 guidance to school districts that includes a recommendation of requiring masks be worn indoors and on buses, maintaining three feet...
View ArticleGreenport’s new athletic director realizes a dream
Brian Toussaint may not have thought of it that way at the time, but he was essentially job shadowing Chris Golden for the past four years while the two shared a classroom as social studies teachers....
View ArticleMasks returning when students are back in school, with some flexibility in...
With just two weeks to go before the start of school, local districts are starting to present to parents a clearer picture of what their reopening plans are. But there are still several factors that...
View ArticleNew forest school has Mother Nature as a teacher
Go outside and play. Who as a child hadn’t heard that from a parent? That familiar suggestion may take on a new twist: Go outside and learn. Learning outdoors is the idea behind the Hawthorn Forest...
View ArticleNew governor confirms universal masking to be required in New York schools
Gov. Kathy Hochul, in her first formal address as New York’s governor, confirmed what many parents and school officials had been expecting: Anyone inside a school must wear a mask to protect against...
View ArticleEditorial: As school resumes, keeping students in classrooms remains top...
A public school teacher who lives on the North Fork recently told an editor for this newspaper that the school year that ended last spring during the pandemic was excruciatingly difficult. She...
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Back to school 2021: Here’s what’s new in each district
It may not be Labor Day yet, but school is officially back in session. Students across the North Fork began the 2021-22 school year Wednesday. While protocols to protect against the spread of COVID-19...
View ArticleMattituck student named semifinalist in prestigious academic competition
Mattituck High School student Richard Kalich has been named a semifinalist in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. The senior is one of approximately 16,000 semifinalists competing for about...
View ArticleStony Brook Southampton adds speech pathology program unique to Suffolk County
Stony Brook University Southampton celebrated the expansion of facilities for its speech-language pathology program with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Friday. The program — introduced in 2020 and the...
View ArticleState database on school COVID cases shows positive signs one month into new...
The start of the new school year featured a contentious debate at times about whether students should continue to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, as was required in 2020-21. Under new...
View ArticleMattituck-Cutchogue is first Suffolk district to offer drive through COVID-19...
In a first for Suffolk County, the Mattituck-Cutchogue School District has opened a mobile COVID-19 testing site outside its bus depot in Cutchogue. The site, organized through the Suffolk County...
View ArticlePolice investigating ‘disturbing’ social media post by Greenport student
For the second time this week, police are investigating a threatening comment made by a student at Greenport schools. In a letter to the community Thursday afternoon, superintendent Marlon Small said...
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Southold drama club to present ‘Spelling Bee’
‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ will be presented by the Southold Junior-Senior High School Drama Club Friday to Sunday, Oct. 29 to 31 in the district auditorium on Oaklawn Avenue. The...
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Mattituck High School honors 14 alumni who served in armed forces
Mattituck High School’s Wall of Honor was expanded by 14 names as the district held its fifth annual dedication ceremony Friday morning. This year’s ceremony took on added significance as several...
View ArticleSchool districts to issue vaccination surveys to parents as state aims to...
New York State officials will require school districts to issue vaccination surveys to parents to gather additional data in an effort to increase vaccinations for school-age children following the...
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