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Sports
Despite illness Longwood senior sticks to sport he loves
September 30, 2011
Golf Gazette/Jay Dempsey: Champions crowned across North Fork
September 26, 2011
Girls Soccer: Wildcats fall 1-0 on penalty kick
September 22, 2011
Education
Mount Sinai school board reviews most recent test scores
September 25, 2011
Photos: Longwood kids celebrate Day of Peace
September 23, 2011
SWR Notes: Board gives green light for new reading program
September 21, 2011
Business
Women’s Network celebrates 30 years of business connections
September 26, 2011
Johnny O's sports bar and grill to open in Coram this fall
September 19, 2011
Where do you get your favorite fall seasonal brews?
September 14, 2011
Community
What's happening this week?
September 23, 2011
Daily Poll: What would you most like to see built in Calverton?
September 19, 2011
Miller Place Country Fair set for this weekend
September 16, 2011
Obituaries
Frank J. Carasiti
September 20, 2011
Doris Mae Meachum
September 19, 2011
Edith Watson
September 13, 2011
Real Estate
Fall backyard trends: Economy has some opting for 'staycations'
September 16, 2011
The end of summer doesn't mean you should stop planting
September 5, 2011
Opinion
Letter: Sad to see The North Shore Sun go
September 29, 2011
Guest Spot: Amid desperation and despair on Sept. 11
September 17, 2011
Column: How sports can help us heal
September 15, 2011
Education
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Former SWR school admin could earn $8,500 to train replacement
The Shoreham-Wading River school board is expected to vote tonight on a measure that would allow former assistant superintendent for human resources Lou Curra to provide mentoring services to William Bushman, who was recently appointed to fill that role, at cost of $8,500 to the district. The board was supposed to...
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Briarcliff’s new principal: It’s the people that make a building a school
Patricia Nugent, a former assistant principal in the Riverhead School District, has taken over as Briarcliff Elementary School’s new principal in Shoreham-Wading River. She has replaced Jane Ruthkowski, who served at the helm of the school for three years and resigned to take a job in the Hauppauge School District. Ms....
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With four absent, SWR school board cancels meeting
The Shoreham-Wading River school board cancelled its meeting Tuesday night after a majority of board members were not in attendance, a requirement under the state Open Meetings Law. Board members Rich Pluschau, Marie Lindell, Jack Costas and Leo Greeley did not attend the meeting, which was supposed to be held in...
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School board notes: Longwood BOE approves $450,000 for tennis courts
The Longwood Board of Education approved Tuesday night to have tennis courts constructed at the junior high school located on Longwood Road in Middle Island. The $450,000 project passed by a 5-2 vote with board members Frank Muraca and Philip Reany opposing. Mr. Muraca said he believes the capital reserves slated for...
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Former SWR school admin could earn $8,500 to train replacement
The Shoreham-Wading River school board will vote tonight on a measure that would allow former assistant superintendent for human resources Lou Curra to provide mentoring services to William Bushman, who was recently appointed to fill that role, at cost of $8,500 to the district. A similar resolution was approved by the...
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Longwood teen joins other LI students for journalism training at Stony Brook University
Brittany Garguilo of Middle Island was a fifth grader when she read about her older cousin's 2006 murder in newspapers and watched accounts of it on TV. She and her family followed the coverage of their loved one’s death with a mix of anger, confusion and intrigue, as many media outlets...
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Video: McGann-Mercy hosts Harry Potter-themed summer camp
Harry Potter has been summering in Riverhead at his home away from home, Hogwarts, which for a time was relocated to Mercy-McGann High School. The school hosted a Harry Potter-themed summer camp for 35 students from private and public schools across eastern Suffolk County earlier this month. On one recent Thursday...
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Longwood school board notes: Low voter turnout among parents, students and employees at May budget vote
Voter turnout during May’s budget and school board election vote was especially low among district employees, students and parents of students, new board member Frank Muraca said at Longwood’s school board meeting Thursday. He said less than 50 percent of district employees and parents of students voted for school board members...
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Mixed results for SunLand schools in math, English scores
Scores in standardized English tests for grades 3 through 8 were up overall for the five local school districts in SunLand in 2010-11, according to test results released last week by the State Education Department. The results in English in those school districts — Shoreham-Wading River, Mount Sinai, Miller Place, Rocky...
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New Suffolk County poet laureate wanted to be a cop
Edward Stever has published two collections of poetry. He has written and performed in dozens of plays, many of which he also directed. He has won a number of prestigious awards and recognitions for his writing. And the Rocky Point resident never wrote a thing until he was 30 years old. “I...
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Longwood expands summer camp for first time in 20 years
For the first time in two decades, Longwood School District is running a summer recreation camp that includes more than just sports. In the past, kids could attend a summer camp that offered a variety of sports. It had long been the vision of history teacher Paul Infranco and physical education...
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SWR schools: New principal takes the helm at Briarcliff Elementary
Students attending Briarcliff Elementary School in the Shoreham-Wading River School District will see two major changes upon returning to school in September. Patricia Nugent has been chosen as the building’s new principal, school officials announced at Tuesday night’s school board meeting. Ms. Nugent joins the district from Riverhead Middle School, where...
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Town funding saves Mount Sinai science program
A project at Mount Sinai High School was in danger of falling through since its funding for this school year vanished. The halting of the project would have directly affected hundreds of clams and oysters in Mount Sinai Harbor. But the school secured $2,000 of funding from the Town of Brookhaven...
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SWR may begin building budget in November
With state aid for schools increasingly wearing away and the recently passed property tax cap likely to cast a dark shadow on building budgets for next school year, Shoreham-Wading River superintendent Steven Cohen suggested to the school board Wednesday that they begin examining next year’s spending plan this November. Shoreham-Wading River,...
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New SWR superintendent unveils goals for 2011-12
The Shoreham-Wading River Board of Education mulled over a host of goals devised by new superintendent Steven Cohen pertaining to curriculum, facilities and professional development at its meeting Tuesday night. The goals, Dr. Cohen emphasized, are merely recommendations to be tweaked with the board’s input and eventually finalized and put forth...
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SWR school board meeting set for tonight
A Shoreham-Wading River school board meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the high school library. The only item on the agenda posted on the district’s website is a planning discussion for the 2011-12 school year. The meeting will be the first with superintendent Steven Cohen, who stepped into his...
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Audit: Five Miller Place employees received retirement credit for 500 days they did not work
Five Miller Place School District employees received retirement credit for more than 500 days they did not earn, according to a district audit recently completed by New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office. The audit states that the district adjusted the way it calculates retirement credit hours in July 2010, but...
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Miller Place schools approves construction contracts at last-minute meeting
The Miller Place Board of Education unanimously approved more than $3 million worth of contracts for construction of the district's new administration building and a high school classroom renovation at a rare Thursday meeting attended by no members of the public last night. News of the meeting did not sit well...
