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Stand Up for Suzanne Honored

November 3, 2016 1:56 am Comments Off

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and many of us on Long Island and in the South Huntington community have had a loved one affected by this disease. Stimson students and staff wore pink on Friday, October 14, 2016 and on that one day they raised $1,000. The monies were donated to “Stand Up […]

Local Huntington High School Student Creates Tutoring Service to Raise Money for Long Island’s Toys of Hope Charity

October 30, 2016 12:49 pm Comments Off

“Tutoring For A Cause”
Noah Helburn, a junior and honors student at Huntington High School, has launched a tutoring service in which he tutors third through eighth graders in science, math and social studies. Noah tutors in exchange for a suggested donation of $20 per hour of tutoring given directly to Toys of Hope, a 501 […]

Wildcat Marching Band Wins State Championship

October 28, 2016 1:25 pm Comments Off

Congratulations on a big win at the US Bands competition on Saturday night, October 22, 2016. This is the second consecutive year that the Wildcat Marching Band has brought home a State Championship.
“Bravo to all these young musicians who have worked so diligently to achieve this most prestigious title,” said Jackie Tartaro in this week’s Superintendents […]

Thank You Stimson Community

October 22, 2016 1:49 am Comments Off

As many of you are aware, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Many of us on Long Island and here in the South Huntington community have had a loved one affected by this disease. To honor those lives impacted and to support research, all Stimson students and staff wore pink on Friday, October 14, […]

Monster Trucks and Connecting Classroom Curriculum

October 21, 2016 3:27 pm Comments Off

Renowned children’s author Anika Denise visited Maplewood Intermediate School this week. Ms. Denise is the author of several critically acclaimed books for young readers, including her latest, “Monster Trucks,” which Publishers Weekly pronounced, “a mash up made in heaven” in a recent starred review.
Ms. Denise discussed the ins and outs of book writing, illustrating, and […]

New York School Bus Contractors Association Supports National School Bus Safety Week:

October 21, 2016 3:18 pm Comments Off

New York School Bus Contractors Association Supports National School Bus Safety Week: Members Holding School Bus Safety Events Throughout New York State

The New York School Bus Contractors Association joins with the National Association for Pupil Transportation and the National School Transportation Association in supporting National School Bus Safety Week, an annual event promoting school bus […]

Grand Opening at Walt Whitman High School’s Newly Renovated Track

October 18, 2016 3:27 am Comments Off

The South Huntington School community officially cut the ribbon on the grand opening of their newly renovated Walt Whitman High School track. This state-of-the art competitive, interscholastic facility, installed by our good friends at The LandTek Group, was made possible through a generous grant provided by Senator Carl Marcellino.
On a recent picture perfect morning, Senator […]

South Huntington Second-Grader Preston Park Brings Home the Gold

October 12, 2016 5:19 pm Comments Off

Oakwood Primary Center Principal Eileen Kerrigan has some great news to share about her standout second-grader Preston Park. On October 1, 2016 Preston won the 2016 United States Taekwondo Festival & Open Championship held in Essex, Maryland.

Preston won 1st Place in Olympic style sparring Taekwondo and 1st Place in Poomsae (Form). The United States Olympic […]

Stuff A Bus Stops at Stimson Middle School in South Huntington

October 1, 2016 6:04 pm Comments Off

The spirit of community service was in full force recently as the generous members of the United Way teamed up with Huntington Coach and volunteers to donate a busload of school supplies for our South Huntington children. There was a special feeling of cooperation in the air at Stimson Middle School as students from the […]

Walt Whitman Students Choose the Bench Over the Beach

September 26, 2016 1:52 pm Comments Off

Some lucky Walt Whitman students got to participate in a one-week program at the federal courthouse in Central Islip this past summer. The program is called The Justice Institute: Crime, the Constitution, and the Courts.
The four Whitman students were part of 80 students entering 10th-grade from all over Long Island chosen for their interest in […]