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West Hempstead High School student Shane Williams, shown with English teacher Roseanne Scully and Principal Dan Rehman, won a $16,000 scholarship from Nassau County for his submission to an essay contest celebrating the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr.

Schools celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday

West HempsteadThe West Hempstead school district is preparing its students for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, with a number of events this year. The Chestnut Street kindergarten center is … more

Lee Landor | 1/11/12

District urges residents to participate in budget survey

The Malverne Union Free School District is asking all community members to participate in a brief online survey regarding the 2012-13 school budget. This survey will provide the Board of Education … more

1/10/12

Get involved in the school budget process

Now that we’ve flipped the calendar, our local school officials will soon start getting into the nitty-gritty of budget planning for the 2012-13 school year. more

1/5/12

With the help of Student Council advisor Marguerite Robles and Principal Margaret McDaid, students at the Maurice W. Downing Primary School in Malverne organized a holiday food drive.

Downing kids collect cans

Student Council members at the Maurice W. Downing Primary School in Malverne organized a holiday food drive, collecting hundreds of cans of food as part of a year-long community service project … more

1/4/12

Alice Bryant from the Teddy Roosevelt Sanctuary spoke to third graders at the Davison Avenue Intermediate School about the mammalian traits of a rabbit and a great horned owl.

Third graders get science lesson with animals

Science lessons came alive for third graders at Malverne’s Davison Avenue Intermediate School when four animals from the Teddy Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center in Oyster Bay paid a visit … more

1/4/12

Joseph Kane conducted West Hempstead’s seventh- and eighth-grade chorus, which, along with the rest of the school district’s music groups, held its annual winter concerts on Dec. 13 and 14.

Making music in Malverne and West Hempstead

The Malverne and West Hempstead school districts held their annual winter concerts throughout the month of December. more

12/21/11

The racial discrimination lawsuit brought against the Malverne school district by three black employees is causing a rift in the community. But some are fighting to keep the focus on the students and the positive.

Malverne school district racial discrimination suit causes rift

Divisiveness tends to rear its ugly head in the Malverne school community, but some people are refusing to allow it. The racial discrimination lawsuit that three black employees recently brought … more

By Lee Landor | 12/21/11

MHS alumnus Hank Williams named principal in Hempstead

The Hempstead School District recently appointed Lakeview native Hank Williams as the new principal of the Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School. Williams, a 1985 Malverne High School alumnus and … more

12/14/11

Malverne Board of Education fails to comply with time FOIL request time limits.

Malverne Board of Ed fails to comply with FOIL requests

Freedom of information is a journalist’s most cherished freedom, for without it, truth can be obscured and the public kept in the dark. Among journalists’s most commonly used tools is the … more

Lee Landor | 12/14/11

Hofstra conference takes on dangerous driving

For decades, public health officials have hammered home a message –– smoking kills. They have done so in splashy advertising campaigns and in the halls of government. Any number of laws and … more

By Scott Brinton, Alex Costello and Jackie Nash | 12/14/11

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