After three nights of competition in the South Side High School gym, the girls of the Red and Blue teams gathered anxiously at mid court last Saturday for the announcement of the results in each category in the 106th Red & Blue competition. Carol Roseto, the Rockville Centre School District’s director of physical activity, announced the points awarded for costumes, skits, props and more, and with the score 48-42 in favor of Blue, it all came down to sportsmanship. When Roseto announced that each team had received 5 points in that category, giving the Blue team a 53-47 victory, the Blue side of the gym exploded in jubilation for the third straight year. Unlike last year, when pandemic restrictions were in place, the competitors were joined by a crowd of parents. more

Gov. Kathy Hochul an-nounced on Sunday that the state directive requiring children in schools and child care facilities to wear masks would end on Wednesday. more

For the second time in as many playoff games, South Side made an early statement and never looked back in a convincing victory. The fifth-seeded Cyclones scored the first 10 points of … more

Valley Stream South High School’s literary arts magazine, “Trails of Society,” took first place in the high school division for the 2020-2021 Scholastic Yearbook and Magazine Award … more

Fifth grade students of Ms. Linker’s class of Hewitt Elementary School in Rockville Centre showed their heart for Mount Sinai South Nassau patients of all ages on Valentine’s Day. The students collected stuffed animals for children in the pediatric unit and made Valentine’s Day cards with heartfelt messages for adults. more

ockville Centre native and South Side High School alumna Amy Schumer will co-host the 94th annual Academy Awards on March 27. more

Down at least one starter all season and two starters for a portion, South Side persevered a roller coaster ride and enters the Nassau Class A girls’ basketball playoffs on the upswing.The … more

A video, appearing to show a substitute teacher browsing sex toys during class, has surfaced by a student at Valley Stream South High School on February 1, 2022. The teacher, who was sitting at her … more

Author Micah Dank said he thought that he might one day be well known in media, but he never expected he would be seven books into a series on astrotheology. After growing up in Rockville Centre, devoting himself to the stage, Dank found meaning in the zodiac and connections he saw in the Bible, and decided to write about them. more

Mount Sinai South Nassau’s “Vaxmobile” made its first visit to a college campus on Monday when it came to Molloy College to administer doses to students and staff members. more