Oceanside Middle School wrapped up its Team Spirit week on Nov. 25 with events for both the seventh and eighth graders. Students danced, cheered, limboed and competed against each other to prove who … more

Students and faculty at Lincoln Orens Middle School in Island Park honored local veterans with a special ceremony last Monday. The event featured student presentations and personal dedications to … more

Throughout the long, at times agonizing health reform debate, conservatives and insurance-industry lobbyists have argued that we don’t need a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers. more

Thanksgiving Schools in Oceanside and Island Park will be closed on Nov. 26 and 27 for Thanksgiving. Have a happy and safe holiday. Board of Education meetings The next meeting of the … more

If the energy of Team Spirit at Oceanside Middle School could be captured in a container, the energy crisis would be solved.  Team Spirit is an annual event that fosters school spirit and … more

Dr. Rosemarie Bovino, the superintendent of the Island Park Union Free School District, is reassuring parents that funds were not misused after an audit from the state comptroller's office reported … more

As it turns out, we have a new Nassau County executive. Democrat Thomas Suozzi conceded defeat to Republican challenger Ed Mangano last week. Suozzi lost by a mere 386 votes. more

Talk about timeliness. Last week's column, "Responding to a Trio of Tragedies," was followed by three more incidents this week: a principal held hostage, resulting in his school going into lockdown; a 13-year-old boy committing suicide in the Bronx; and a report that two-thirds of all middle school students say they have been bullied. In each case, there was no outlet for rage. It is incumbent on us to prevent anger from escalating to that point. This week, I will examine a number of the anti-bullying programs that are proliferating in the schools, from the elementary to even the college levels. 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

Oceanside resident Lisa Roth Klein will be at Chapter One Books, 3185 Long Beach Road in Oceanside, on Nov. 21 at 1:30 p.m. to sign copies of her children's book, "The Magical Journey." more