06.26.2016 Greenport School District Greenport’s Class of 2016 puts bow on graduation weekend While their peers across the North Fork tossed their caps Saturday, as has become tradition Greenport’s senior class had to wait an extra day to graduate.
06.10.2016 Community Columns Oysterponds News: Watch out for turtles crossing roads Applications are being accepted for the William Steeple Davis artist in residency that starts Oct. 15. The program provides a temporary home for a person who has been actively...
05.18.2016 Community Oysterponds Historical Society hires new director with strong LI roots Elsbeth Linn Dowd is traveling across the country from Oklahoma to return to Long Island to serve as Oysterponds Historical Society’s new director.
01.27.2016 Education Schools prepare for tight budgets as tax cap looks to hold levy at 0.12% Local superintendents preparing next year’s school spending plans are describing the process as daunting because they’re bound to nearly zero percent tax levy growth for 2016-17.
10.25.2015 Oysterponds School District Oysterponds focuses on making students more active in classroom In the center of the gymnasium at Oysterponds Elementary School Tuesday afternoon, a second-grader stood holding a plate that read “sun.” A few feet away, another student spun in...
10.14.2015 Oysterponds School District Oysterponds school board discusses downsizing Should Oysterponds have a five or seven-member Board of Education? The board’s current members discussed downsizing from seven to five at Tuesday’s meeting, saying community interest in running for...
07.25.2015 Oysterponds School District Oysterponds camp focuses on maritime, agricultural history When Oysterponds Elementary School art teacher Laurie Sanders hoisted up a fish in front of a group of students last Friday, first-grader Mackenzie Thompson knew exactly what kind it...
06.26.2015 Community Columns Oysterponds News: Did you recently travel to Bermuda? I’ll start with a small world and hope you can fill in the end. Pete Nathanson and his bride, Chris Franke, were going through customs in Bayonne, N.J., last...
06.16.2015 Oysterponds School District VIDEO: Oysterponds students tell our whaling history Students from Oysterponds Elementary School have spent the past several months producing a video on the historical significance of the local whaling industry as part of the town’s celebration...
05.30.2015 Community Columns Oysterponds News: Car wash scheduled at school Early last week I was behind a ginormous truck that was scoring the middle of the newly laid blacktop on the North Road. It didn’t occur to me what...