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Huntington Opportunity Resource Center August Agenda

August 7, 2017 7:04 pm Comments Off

Below please find the Huntington Opportunity Resource Center August activities, calendar and services available to residence.

Gershow Recycling Grants Environmental Conservation Scholarship to Walt Whitman High School Graduating Senior William Burton

June 29, 2017 5:59 pm Comments Off

Rich D’Angelo (left), Manager, Gershow Recycling, poses with William Burton (right), a member of Walt Whitman High School’s Class of 2017, at the school’s scholarship ceremony on June 14. Mr. Burton was awarded a one-time scholarship in the amount of $1,000 from Gershow Recycling. As a leading environmental recycling company, Gershow awards the competitive scholarship […]

Walt Whitman High School Teacher Arrested For Rape 3rd Degree

May 26, 2017 10:53 am Comments Off

Suffolk County Police have arrested a Walt Whitman High School teacher who had an inappropriate relationship with one of his students in Huntington Station.
Special Victims Section detectives began an investigation into the conduct of a Walt Whitman High School teacher and discovered that he was having an inappropriate relationship with one of his 16-year-old female […]

A Record Number of Whitman HS Eagle Scouts Set to Graduate

May 25, 2017 12:38 pm Comments Off

This is an exceptional year for Walt Whitman graduates. But the story behind the story may well be that we have an unprecedented number of Eagle Scouts graduating on June 24th. Missing the national record by only one, presently held in Texas with an even dozen, Walt Whitman is graduating eleven exceptional Eagle Scouts who […]

Bench Dedicated at Huntington Station Park

May 16, 2017 4:25 pm Comments Off

50 years later, relatives and friends remember two 10-year-old boys who drowned in sump adjacent to Alfred Walker Park
Huntington Station – Family and friends gathered May 13 at the Town of Huntington’s Alfred Walker Park to dedicate a bench in memory of two 10-year-old boys who died exactly 50 years before when they […]

Huntington Honors Scholar-Athletes

May 11, 2017 12:28 pm Comments Off

The Huntington Town Board, at its May 9 meeting, honored 20 local high school seniors who excel in both academics and athletics at the annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Ceremony.
Each of the winners – one male and one female from each of the 10 high schools in the Town — had been selected by their school, which […]

Huntington Town Board Recognizes 2017 Poetry for the HART Winners

May 4, 2017 1:55 am Comments Off

Winning teens join poets Steven Licardi, Kate Kelly and John A. Brennan in April 26, 2017 reading at Walt Whitman Birthplace

The Huntington Town Board recently recognized 16 teen poets from the community selected for participation in the Town’s Poetry for the HART Public Art Initiative, with the winners receiving certificates signed by members of the Huntington […]

Huntington Young Republicans Honor April Students of the Month

May 1, 2017 4:46 pm Comments Off

The Huntington Young Republicans launched their Student of the Month Program in February 2017 to help engage local high school students in the process of politics and government. In April, the organization recognized two students: Leigh McDermott and Victoria Thurer.
Leigh McDermott is a freshman at Portledge High School in Locust Valley, and resides in Cold Spring Harbor. Over […]

Whitman Winter Color Guard Honored May 1, 2017

May 1, 2017 3:03 pm Comments Off

On April 2, 2017 the Walt Whitman High School Indoor Color Guard competed in the USBands Indoor Championships at South Brunswick High School in Monmouth Junction, NJ. The ensemble placed 1st and won the title of 2017 Scholastic Novice Color Guard Champions. This year’s show was entitled “Rise Up”. It included music from Andra Day and was accompanied by a […]

South Huntington Student From Oakwood Brings Home Gold

April 12, 2017 5:03 pm Comments Off

Preston Park, a 2nd-grader at Oakwood Primary Center in South Huntington, won two gold medals at the Pan American Taekwondo Union sanctioned event that was part of the World Open Taekwondo Championships, in Portland, Oregon in March. More than 1,400 athletes around the world participated in the 2017 US World Open Taekwondo Championships.
Preston has won […]