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Tara Hackett celebrates her re-election to the Rockville Centre education board at the South Side High School gymnasium Tuesday night.

Voters approve RVC school, library budgets

Voters in the Rockville Centre school district approved a $136.4 million budget for the 2023-24 academic year with 67 percent of the vote. more

By Daniel Offner | 5/17/23

Wilson Elementary School Principal Tom Ricupero says hello to new Kindergartner Caroline McCarthy.

Village students head back to school [Photo gallery]

Tuesday’s cool and cloudy weather helped to push thoughts of summer away as Rockville Centre’s 3,600 public school students headed back to school after their summer vacation. As returning … more

9/10/09

Hewitt students Elaina Heghes and Grace Slade helped collect school supplies for East Rockaway students in need after Hurricane Sandy.

Rockville Centre's Hewitt helps fellow students in need

First grade students at Hewitt Elementary have been working hard to collect school supplies for students in East Rockaway. more

12/19/12

Blasted by the snow, again [Photo gallery]

Yet another storm has reminded us that northeast winters can be brutal. This latest blast began Thursday afternoon in Nassau as rain, then heavy rain, and then as temperatures fell, morphed into snowflakes. Inch-by-stormy-inch, the snow piled up overnight to near a foot or so in western Nassau to somewhat less in mid- and eastern parts of the county. more

2/26/10

South Shore begins digging out [Photo gallery]

Yet another storm has reminded us that northeast winters can be brutal. This latest blast began Thursday afternoon in Nassau as rain, then heavy rain, and then as temperatures fell, morphed into snowflakes. Inch-by-stormy-inch, the snow piled up overnight to near a foot or so in western Nassau to somewhat less in mid- and eastern parts of the county. more

2/26/10