For the first time, George H. McVey Elementary School will host a 5K and 1-mile fun run on Oct. 27 to cap its annual Red Ribbon Week, a schoolwide initiative that promotes health, wellness and drug awareness through various programs and assemblies. more

It’s the time of year when many kids have been shipped off to camp for the summer. But the cost of a recreational summer getaway can be prohibitive, and the East Meadow School District offers an alternative: a local, affordable program for children to learn sports from qualified instructors. more

“Our time together has been unreal, surreal and truly fantastic. Together as a class, we are something amazing,” W.T. Clarke Valedictorian Daniel Wang told his fellow graduates. “We are all unique in our own ways, but that’s what makes us special. There are so many challenges waiting for our solutions. Let us explore our surroundings and be the change our world needs.” more

It was a chaotic first week of June for Salisbury residents who, after dropping off their clothes at a popular laundry, Lewis Dry Cleaners, on Carman Avenue, returned to find that the shop’s owner had been evicted and it was empty, with no clothing in sight. more

At the W.T. Clarke High School graduation, which will take place on the school’s football field on June 23, seniors Daniel Wang and Alexander Evangelatos will deliver speeches in front of their peers, families and teachers. In October, the pair were named the top two in their class — Wang as valedictorian and Evangelatos as salutatorian. more

Hundreds in East Meadow honored servicemen and women during the community’s annual Memorial Day parade, led by Grand Marshal Bernard Hein of the Jewish War Veterans Post 709. Residents waved, clapped and cheered as the parade, which also featured the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2736, the American Legion Post 1082, the East Meadow Fire Department, students from the East Meadow and W.T. Clarke High School bands and local Boy and Girl Scout troops marched toward Veterans Memorial Park. more

Lately, students in the East Meadow School District have been putting on quite a show. more

When W.T. Clarke High School senior Stefanie Kaufman received a letter from the White House — complete with the presidential seal and President Obama’s signature — informing her that she had won the President’s Volunteer Service Award, her initial reaction was not celebration, but relief. more

W.T. Clarke High School graduates recently returned to school for a night of laughs, as they performed a special improvisation, or “Improv” sketch show to benefit the school’s theater program. more

Two moments resonate in Bill Katz’s mind that helped instill his lifelong love for music. The first was as a 15-year-old living in Far Rockaway in 1945, when he stopped at a candy store on his way home one night, and his eyes landed on a magazine called Esquire Jazz Magazine. The magazine included photos of the era’s greatest musicians, including Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Coleman Hawkins. It also included a jazz recording, which Katz played once he arrived home. “I was just smitten by it,” said Katz, who has taught music education for more than 60 years, and 40 at East Meadow High School. “I started buying jazz records.” more