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Baseball: Mattituck keeps its postseason alive
May 20, 2013
Education
This is the school budget you'll vote on Tuesday
May 20, 2013
See who's running for your school board
May 20, 2013
Business
New vermouth, Atsby, made in Mattituck
May 13, 2013
Sushi, hibachi restaurant now open in Greenport
May 12, 2013
Community
Photos: Hallockville's Fleece and Fiber Fair
May 19, 2013
Art class receives wisdom from area seniors
May 17, 2013
Obituaries
Carlisle E. Cochran
May 15, 2013
Oleta Marie Melissari
May 14, 2013
Laura D. Cullen
May 14, 2013
Real Estate
North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight
May 20, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 10, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 2, 2013
Education
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This is the school budget you’ll vote on Tuesday
North Fork residents will go to the polls Tuesday to vote on their local school budget proposals, none of which attempts to pierce the state-mandated tax levy cap for the 2013-14 fiscal year. Oysterponds is the only local district to propose a reduction in spending for next school year. Three North Fork...
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See who’s running for your school board
Oysterponds The Oysterponds School District not only has the most candidates running in this year’s school board elections, it also features the only contested race. Three seats currently held by board president Dorothy-Dean Thomas, Deborah Dumont and Thomas Gray are up for grabs, but only Ms. Thomas is seeking a new term....
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Write-in campaigns launched for open Mattituck school board seat
Suddenly the Mattituck school board election is no longer a sure thing. Although only one name will appear on Tuesday's ballot, two residents are waging last-minute write-in campaigns to transform what was to be an usual one candidate for two seats election into a 3 for 2 race. The two board positions...
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Art class receives wisdom from area seniors
In the expansive dining room of the stone mansion that is Brecknock Hall, 18 fourth-grade students sit at plastic tables, their small hands constructing sculptures out of little but construction paper and their imaginations. At one table, an older hand, wizened by age, reaches for a multicolored pipe cleaner and gently...
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Mattituck school board discusses facility improvement plans
The Mattituck-Cutchogue Board of Education discussed facility improvement plans during its regular meeting Thursday night. The board members present unanimously approved a $17,920 donation from the Mattituck-Cutchogue Athletic Booster Club to purchase several pieces of equipment. School board vice president Charles Anderson was absent from the meeting. The district plans to purchase...
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Oysterponds Board reviews technology upgrade plan
Oysterponds Elementary School District officials plan to upgrade the district’s technology infrastructure next year to comply with a mandate from Albany that students take state assessments online by the 2014-15 school year. During the school board’s regular meeting Tuesday, representatives from Switch Technologies of Rocky Point gave a presentation about the...
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Photos: Southold School District’s first garden expo
Southold students and community members gathered Thursday morning for the district's first garden expo featuring vegetables they've grown and displaying information about environmental sustainability practices. New York State Board of Regents member Roger Tilles visited the expo to learn about how the garden teaches students about math, science and arts. Mr. Tilles,...
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Photos: Mattituck students paint like Jackson Pollock
After studying the work of Long Island artist Jackson Pollock and visiting his studio in Springs, students from Mattituck High School took part in an "action painting" activity on the front lawn Tuesday. Armed with squirt bottles full of paint, students created individual works in Pollock’s abstract expressionist “drip painting” style,...
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Greenport, Southold to share new tech director
Greenport and Southold schools will share a new technology director for at least the next three years now that the two districts have entered into a shared-services agreement. The Greenport Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the appointment of Ryan Case for the job, which takes effect July 1. Greenport...
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Oysterponds school board to discuss technology-upgrade plan
The Oysterponds school board is expected to discuss the district's technology-upgrade plan at tonight's regular meeting in Orient. Representatives from Switch Technologies of Rocky Point will give a presentation about the elementary school building's technical infrastructure, according to tonight's agenda. Superintendent Richard Malone has said the upgrade is needed in order for...
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Mattituck administrator retiring from Little Flower
When Little Flower Union Free School District Superintendent George Grigg first thought about pursuing a career in education, he was a Mattituck High School student who couldn’t afford basketball sneakers. His coach, Robert Muir, took him under his wing and taught him how a little encouragement can go a long way. “We...
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Photos: Student cooks seek a winning recipe
The kitchen was heating up at Suffolk County Community College’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center in Riverhead Tuesday afternoon, where four high school student chefs were competing for a $1,500 scholarship to the culinary program. Hampton Bays High School senior Luke Gustafson, 18, cooked the prize-winning dish: sliced chicken breast in...
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Nominees announced for Teeny Awards
The 11th Annual Teeny Awards nominees were announced Wednesday morning, earning North Fork high schools dozens of nominations. The awards, presented by East End Arts and sponsored by Suffolk County National Bank and Riverhead Toyota, showcase the best in local high school theater. The awards ceremony will be held June 9...
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Photos: Greenport students perform in variety show
Greenport School held its annual talent show Saturday night in the auditorium. Students from grades K-12 performed to raise money for the sixth grade field trip fund. The show featured 22 acts, mostly song and dance. ...
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‘Seaweed Galore’ at Oysterponds school
The walls of Oysterpond Elementary School in Orient are covered in seaweed — well, paintings of the algae, anyway. Resin, pastel and chalk paintings created by 18 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade were on display Tuesday evening in Oysterpond’s main lobby for its “Seaweed Galore” art exhibition, which is part...
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Tax cap hasn’t slowed school spending
When state lawmakers approved a 2 percent cap on annual tax levy increases in 2011, they said the legislation was designed to control school district spending and ease the burden on taxpayers. Since then, a Times/Review Newsgroup analysis has found, spending in most North Fork districts has increased at a higher...
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Editorial: 2% cap didn’t deliver
The biggest disservice New York State lawmakers did to themselves — and to local school districts — when they passed the tax levy increase cap in 2011 was to call it a 2 percent cap. It is not a 2 percent cap. Exclusions, mainly related to pension costs, give schools the flexibility...
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New Suffolk budget features 4.1% tax levy increase
The New Suffolk Board of Education adopted school board president Tony Dill’s proposed $965,324 budget Thursday night, which carries an estimated 4.1 percent increase to next year’s tax levy. During a school board special meeting, Mr. Dill projected a $50,891 expenditure increase compared to the current school year’s budget. His tentative...
