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New Principal Named for Commack High School

June 19, 2016 12:13 pm Comments Off

The Board of Education of the Commack School District is pleased to announce the appointment of Leslie Boritz as the new Commack High School Principal, effective July 1, 2016. This decision caps an intensive search process for a dynamic leader who will continue to support our District’s vision of student achievement through access and opportunity.

Mrs. […]

Vanderbilt Planetarium Marks 45th Anniversary

June 17, 2016 12:18 pm Comments Off

Honors Vanderbilt’s Love of Exploration, Generates Revenue
On June 29, 2016 the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum will observe the 45th anniversary of the opening of its Planetarium, now known as the Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium.
The anniversary coincides with the final stage of the Planetarium’s technological update – the installation of a cutting-edge SkyLase laser light-show […]

Source the Station June 2016 Meetup Recap

June 17, 2016 12:05 pm Comments Off

We started off June with our Monthly Meetup at CGI Baseball June 1, 2016 at 6:30pm! Everyone sat on benches and chairs inside one of the batting cages, which made for a very interesting meeting. We started off the night with some catching up and dinner from Roast Sandwich House and then got ready to […]

Arrest Made in Sarah Strobel Murder from October 3, 2013

June 15, 2016 5:44 pm Comments Off

From Original Story.
Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of Sarah Strobel, 23, of 11 East 6th St., Huntington Stationa whose body was found in a Huntington nature preserve located on West Rouges Path.
Police responded to the Froehlich Farm Nature Preserve after a person walking on a path noticed the body of […]

Elwood Students Celebrate Field Day

June 13, 2016 6:07 am Comments Off

The grass fields at Harley Avenue Primary School and James H. Boyd Intermediate School in the Elwood Union Free School District were filled with blue and white pride fs students, at their respective schools, participated in field day celebrations. The district’s physical education departments coordinated the day’s festivities, which allowed students to showcase their various […]

NERFA Showcase Concert at Cinema Arts Centre, June 16 Five Touring Artists will Swap Songs

June 13, 2016 2:04 am Comments Off

The Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH) partners with the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA), a regional affiliate of Folk Alliance International, in presenting a NERFA Showcase to close out the current season of its monthly Hard Luck Café series in the Sky Room at the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) on Thursday […]

Harborfields Community Raises Funds for Special Olympics

June 12, 2016 1:16 pm Comments Off

Students at Harborfields High School as well as members of the Booster Club and PTA Council’s Health and Welfare Committee rallied together to raise funds to benefit the Long Island Chapter of the Special Olympics. Through their collective efforts, they raised more than $1,700 for the cause by selling customized Special Olympics bracelets and collecting […]

Harborfields Third-Graders Are ‘Goin’ Buggy’

June 12, 2016 2:00 am Comments Off

As a culmination to their science unit on metamorphosis, third-grade students in Diane Brown and Noreen Paccione’s classes at Thomas J. Lahey Elementary School in the Harborfields Central School District put on their musical performance of “Goin’ Buggy.”
For their curriculum unit, third-graders received a caterpillar to observe as they transformed into butterflies. They learned about […]

Stolen Credit Card Wanted for Grand Larceny

June 12, 2016 1:59 am Comments Off

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who attempted to use a credit card stolen from a vehicle in Melville.

A man attempted to use a stolen credit card at Target, located at 4 Henry St. in Commack, on May 11 […]

2016 Walt Whitman Salutatorian Announced

June 11, 2016 1:40 am Comments Off

“This award means a lot, not just for myself but for my family too,” said Gabrielle Ramirez, our 2016 Walt Whitman Salutatorian. “My parents came here as immigrants wanting to create a better life for me and my sister Epi, and they have always told us to take advantage of all the opportunities here in […]