On a night that saw defending Nassau Class A boys’ basketball champion Roslyn eliminated and top-seeded Elmont barely avoid a colossal upset, No. 3 South Side played as fine a half as it has all season on the way to a 56-41 victory over Lawrence before a crowd of 500 last Friday.
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Tony Bellissimo
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2/18/10
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As part of an ongoing philanthropy project, South Side High School senior Chris Boss, a Covert Elementary School alumnus, invited all students at his former school to participate in a tournament-style dodgeball event on Feb. 4 in the Covert gym.
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2/17/10
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Three weeks ago, Tara Brenke, 17, and her brother, Xavier, 16, arrived in the U.S. from Haiti with little more than the clothes on their backs. Last month's earthquake had destroyed everything around them — their Port-au-Prince home, their high school, even the medical college Tara was planning to attend next year. Their parents — who survived the quake — decided that it would be best for the teens to come to America and live with a cousin, Erick Brenke, a mortgage banker, and his fiancee, Crystal Pearl, an earth science teacher, in their Island Park home.
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Judy Rattner
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2/17/10
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Junior James Rodriguez led South Side’s wrestlers at last Friday’s qualifying tournament at Plainedge by capturing the 135-pound title.
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Tony Bellissimo
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2/11/10
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In conjunction with the Rockville Centre Teachers Association, South Side Middle School staffers and students helped coordinate a “Hats for Haiti Day” on Jan. 22.
The school has a "no hat" …
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2/10/10
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South Side remained in the mix for the Nassau Conference II gymnastics title with a 143.75-133.75 victory over visiting Port Washington.
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Tony Bellissimo
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2/4/10
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Lori Ying, a South Side High School senior, was surprised last month to find out that she had been named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. But when she learned last week that she had been selected as one of 40 finalists in the prestigious research competition, she was shocked.
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Alex Costello
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2/3/10
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A team from South Side High School will participate in Round 1 of the television quiz show, “The Challenge,” competing against students from Plainedge High School.
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2/3/10
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Hannah Byrne has been tapped as this year’s South Side High School representative to the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) Conference.
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2/3/10
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Senior Colleen Burke scored 22 points and dished out six assists to lead South Side to a 56-45 victory over visiting Elmont in a Conference ABC-I girls’ basketball game on Jan. 22. Senior Jasmine Cobbs scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Lady Spartans.
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Andrew McClure
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1/28/10
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