In support of Habitat World Day, and to raise awareness of the current housing crisis and the need for adequate housing in Nassau, local residents participated in Habitat For Humanity of Nassau County’s three-mile Walk-A-Thon on Oct. 30, at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. Among those residents were several H. Frank Carey High School students, who recently created a Habitat For Humanity club to support HFHNC.
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By Jackie Nash
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11/22/11
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Local high school marching bands performed at the 2011 Newsday Marching Band Festival, a three-day event held at Hofstra University in October.
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By Jackie Nash
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11/22/11
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The H. Frank Carey High School’s first-ever traveling boys’ lacrosse team — comprised of 20 9th, 10th and 11th-graders — competed throughout the state this summer, completing its season with a 4-7-2 record. The team was initiated by Tom Aiello and Anthony Tufano, head varsity coaches at Carey, and played 13 games this summer, including two local tournaments at SUNY Farmingdale and Hofstra University, and the Tri-State Tournament, which was held in New Jersey.
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By Jackie Nash
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9/27/11
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Long Island is not necessarily known as a breeding ground for great baseball players. Despite being the birthplace of big-name major leaguers, both old and new, such as Craig Biggio and Billy Koch, Long Island continues to produce far more lacrosse players than baseball stars.
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By James Fitz Gerald
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8/24/11
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Sewanhaka Memorial High School graduate Victoria Casso, of Elmont, was recently selected to receive The Race For Education’s Olivia M. Saylor Scholarship, formerly known as the Fleet Indian Scholarship.
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By Jackie Nash
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6/28/11
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The Sewanhaka Central High School budget passed this evening, with 4,628 votes in support of the budget, and 3,028 votes against it. This year's turnout — 7,656 voters — was slightly lower than last year's, when nearly 10,000 residents came to the polls to vote for the 2010-11 budget.
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By Jackie Nash
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5/17/11
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A bomb threat was left on the voice-mail system of a member of the H. Frank Carey High School administration on April 27 around 11:10 p.m. The threat was made after the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting that night.
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By Jackie Nash
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5/3/11
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A bomb threat was left on the voice-mail system of an administrative member of the H. Frank Carey High School on April 27, around 11:10 p.m. The threat was made following the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, which began at 8 p.m.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/29/11
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For the second time in the past two months, parents came to the microphone at the Sewanhaka High School District’s Board of Education meeting to publicly disparage the district’s English as a Second Language program. The program is currently housed in only one school within the five-school district — the H. Frank Carey High School — and some parents within the district believe it has created an unsafe environment at Carey.
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By Jackie Nash
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3/29/11
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At the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 15, some parents expressed concerns about the district’s English as a Second Language program. The concerns focused on the fact that the program is only held at the H. Frank Carey High School, although there are four other schools in the district.
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By Jackie Nash
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2/22/11
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