Education

Little Red Schoolhouse gets artsy with kids help

By Rachel Young | 05/24/2013 3:00 PM | Education, Main Story, Top News

Greenport’s Little Red Schoolhouse has been given a colorful dose of patriotism for Memorial Day. On Tuesday afternoon seven Greenport Elementary School students helped decorate the historic Front Street building with red, white and blue artwork they had spent two months creating during an after-school program at the Greenport Recreation Center. “It’s...

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Update: Mattituck Schools releases results of write-in election

By Carrie Miller and Jennifer Gustavson | 05/23/2013 2:30 PM | Mattituck Cutchogue School District, News, Top News

UPDATE: 2:38 P.M. Mattituck-Cutchogue school officials released the full results of Tuesday’s write-in race for the remaining open seat on the district's Board of Education just before noon Thursday. As previously reported, former school board member Jeff Smith was the clear front-runner with 79 votes, which turns out to be more than double that of...

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Featured Letter: Thank you, teachers

By Harry Katz | 05/23/2013 6:00 AM | Letters to the Editor, Southold School District, Top News

To the Editor: With graduation approaching, I cannot forget the dedication, inspiration and guidance of specific teachers and programs that tremendously benefited our son, Carlos. While I have often railed against the unsustainability of the benefits and retirement packages at the expense of the beleaguered taxpayer, as well as the general edge...

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Southold BOE to discuss sharing tech director with Greenport

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/22/2013 2:43 PM | News, Southold School District

The Southold Board of Education is expected to discuss its transportation contract and a shared-service agreement with Greenport at tonight's regular school board meeting. There's a resolution on the agenda to approve a contract extension with Sunrise Busses for the 2013-14 school year. The proposal includes a 2 percent increase or...

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Southold students growing organic veggies

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/22/2013 10:42 AM | News, Southold School District, Top News

Ask Southold Elementary School student Emiliann Palermo what she wants to be when she grows up, and she’ll say a lawyer. The 11-year-old is getting a taste of the professional world, without litigation and the like for now, not in a traditional classroom setting but alongside the plants sprouting in her...

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Recap: North Fork budgets pass by wide margins

By The Suffolk Times | 05/21/2013 8:50 PM | Education, News, Top News

All five school districts on the North Fork saw their proposed budgets pass by Tuesday night by wide margins. In the school board race for three open seats at Oysterponds, two candidates — Dorothy-Dean Thomas and Betsy Dzenkowski — tied for third place with 157 votes each. The district is expected to...

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Squire on why he withdrew from school board race

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/21/2013 11:16 AM | News, Oysterponds School District, Top News

Orient resident Charles Squire released the following statement about his decision for withdrawing from today's Oysterponds school board election. Below his statement is our original coverage. Dear friends and fellow members of the Oysterponds community, It is with much regret that I am announcing the withdrawal of my candidacy from the Oysterponds...

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This is the school budget you’ll vote on Tuesday

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/20/2013 5:29 PM | Education, News, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/20/2013 4:34 PM | Education, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/20/2013 2:07 PM | Mattituck Cutchogue School District, Top News

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

By Rachel Young | 05/17/2013 6:00 PM | Education, News, The Arts, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/17/2013 4:00 PM | Mattituck Cutchogue School District, News, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/17/2013 11:00 AM | Oysterponds School District, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/16/2013 5:36 PM | Community, News, Southold School District, Top News

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

By Katharine Schroeder | 05/14/2013 5:00 PM | Mattituck Cutchogue School District, The Arts, Top News

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

By Rachel Young | 05/14/2013 2:20 PM | Greenport School District, News, Southold School District, Top News

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/14/2013 12:00 PM | News, Oysterponds School District

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

By Jennifer Gustavson | 05/14/2013 8:00 AM | Education, News, Top News

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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