Female enrollment rises in traditionally male-centric trade programs
Despite getting advice to take AP classes instead, Sarah Alessi, a junior at Shoreham-Wading River High School, signed on to the new trade electric program at Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied...
View ArticleLocal school districts, police aware of unfounded TikTok threat
Schools across the East End — and the country — are seeing a heightened police presence after a social media threat deemed not credible went viral Thursday. A TikTok post warned about school shooting...
View ArticleGay-Straight Alliance club returns to Greenport
Savannah Corwin Hall, a junior at Greenport High School, wasn’t sure what to do for her community service project as part of the Rotary Youth Leadership program earlier this summer. She got the idea...
View ArticleNorth Fork school districts closed Friday
With a winter storm having brought several inches of snow across the North Fork on Friday, local school districts are preparing for possible delays or closures. The National Weather Service has issued...
View Article2021 Educator of the Year: Melanie Douglass
In the last two decades as an educator in Greenport, Melanie Douglass has mentored hundreds of high school students. Even if they weren’t ‘hers,’ per se, she’d avail herself to offer advice, extra...
View ArticleAs schools reopened following holiday break, absences due to COVID-19 followed
A spike in COVID cases fueled by the omicron variant has caused widespread absences in North Fork schools in the return from winter break last week. This is against the backdrop of a 24.1% positivity...
View ArticleGreenport Schools mourns sudden passing of teacher, graduate
The Greenport School Community is mourning the sudden passing of teacher, parent and former student Cindy Goldsmith-Agosta, the superintendent announced in an email to families. The following message...
View ArticleCutchogue East unveils new indoor sensory path
Colorful stickers of logs, lily pads, ladybugs and more make up part of Cutchogue East Elementary School’s new indoor sensory path. The ribbon cutting for the new sensory path took place Tuesday at...
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Greenport Schools ‘will never be the same,’ following passing of beloved teacher
The word pride is synonymous with the Greenport school community. The five-letter motto is instilled in the district’s students at a young age and carries on long after the final school bell has rung....
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Hundreds mourn teacher with candlelight vigil at Greenport High School
Hundreds of mourners visited Greenport High School Tuesday to pay their respects at a candlelight vigil for Cindy Agosta-Goldsmith. The teacher, parent and one-time student of the school died suddenly...
View ArticleMattituck School District outlines five-year plan for facilities improvements
A new building management system proposed for Mattituck Junior-Senior High School would allow for better temperature control to create more efficiency. Superintendent Shawn Petretti discussed the...
View ArticleUpdate: Appeals court judge sides with state on mask mandate in schools
Update (5:20 p.m.): An appeals court judge sided with New York State Tuesday afternoon, allowing the universal mask mandate for schools to continue for now. Gov. Kathy Hochul applauded the decision...
View ArticleMask mandate in schools to remain for now; COVID-19 cases continue to decline...
The statewide mask mandate for schools will remain in effect for at least another month. In a motion issued Monday by New York State’s Appellate Division, Second Department, the mandate will remain in...
View ArticleGreenport schools looking to move forward with auxiliary gym proposal years...
Construction on the auxiliary gym at Greenport School is still pending state approval, according to a capital project update presentation at a Greenport Board of Education meeting in January....
View ArticleA long-awaited return to the stage for Mattituck High School’s theater group
When Mattituck High School senior Abby Tyler takes the stage this weekend as Lucy Van Pelt in the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” she’ll carry with her a bit of history. “Two of the people...
View ArticleProgram aimed at helping parents improve their English to resume after...
After seeing the large number of parents requesting translation services during parent’s night for students in the English as a new language program, Rafael Morais got the idea to start classes for...
View ArticleShe’s helping Southold students far beyond the classroom
Some students may need help crafting a resume. Others may need help identifying a program they would be applying to in college. Some are trying to secure working papers. In the Southold School...
View ArticleMattituck proposes $42.8M school budget, new capital reserve fund
Mattituck-Cutchogue school district will propose a new 2022 capital reserve fund capped at $10 million to go before voters in May, according to superintendent Shawn Petretti. The announcement came at...
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‘The Laramie Project,’ a play centered on tolerance and love, set to debut at...
On Dec. 1, 2020, Cutchogue resident Huck Hirsch decided to honor Matthew Shepard, a young gay man from Wyoming who was killed in 1998. Mr. Shepard would have turned 44 that day. To honor him, Mr....
View ArticleSouthold science teacher selected to state’s master teaching program
Tim McArdle’s career path was mapped out by the time he graduated Patchogue-Medford High School. He became a teacher. And now, he’ll be teaching teachers. That comes with his selection to the New...
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