Lawrence High School students performed a production of "The King and I" from Nov. 18-21. The play was presented with the support of “The Christina Mazzitelli Academy of Fine and Performing Arts."   more

East Rockaway High School senior Danny Quadrino, 18, is living his dream as an actor on Broadway. He has made his debut on the Big White Way in the revival of the musical "Bye Bye Birdie." He just filled in for the starring role of "Hugo" in this week's matinee performance. more

More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) last year. Following a year-long wait, approximately 16,000 of those students were selected as National Merit semifinalists, with 899 from New York being recognized. more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

The Hewlett High School girls varsity volleyball team turned their recent home match against Cold Spring Harbor into a breast cancer awareness rally. more

Hewlett High School has the most Siemens semifinalists in the country for the second year in a row with 16 students being honored in this year’s competition. more

I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010. more

Over the past year-and-a-half, 16-year-old Matthew Tinkelman, a Hewlett High School junior, has worked to organize the first-ever Friend-Raiser event, which he said he hopes will utilize music and the arts to strengthen the weak bonds he sees within the Hewlett-Woodmere community. more

Five local students — Michael Kornblit, Albert Chen, Daniel Bailin, Eric Brooks and Fumi Akinnawonu — were recently named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. These students will be notified in February if they were named National Merit finalists. more

Thursday marks the official start of the Nassau County high school season, and it’s only the beginning of weekday action. more