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01.17.2022 Greenport School District

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...

01.16.2022 Education

Cutchogue 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...

01.15.2022 Greenport School District

Greenport 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 was...

01.12.2022 COVID-19

As 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...

01.08.2022 Education

2021 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...

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01.07.2022 Education

North 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...

01.03.2022 Education

Gay-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...

12.17.2021 Education

Local 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...

12.17.2021 Education

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...

12.10.2021 COVID-19

School districts to issue vaccination surveys to parents as state aims to assist areas that need support

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...

11.12.2021 Mattituck Cutchogue School District

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...

10.28.2021 News

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...

10.14.2021 Education

Police 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...

10.13.2021 COVID-19

Mattituck-Cutchogue is first Suffolk district to offer drive through COVID-19 testing site

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...

10.01.2021 COVID-19

State database on school COVID cases shows positive signs one month into new year

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...

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