At the Rockville Centre Village Board meeting on Feb. 9, Mayor Mary Bossart discussed details of a new proposal the village says it presented to the school district in an effort to solve the problem of parking at Fireman’s Field, adjacent to South Side High School.
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Alex Costello
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2/17/10
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A resident physician at Stony Brook University Medical School recently got herself into trouble by posting an old photo of a former classmate giving two thumbs up next to a cadaver on Facebook.
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2/11/10
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In one early visit to the U.S., Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest scientist in history, was subjected to a very public pop quiz devised by none other than American inventor Thomas Edison, according to author Walter Isaacson in “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
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1/29/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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Board of Education Vice President Kathy Horace stunned her colleagues and administrators at the school board meeting on Jan. 20 by announcing that she is resigning the trustee seat she has held for five years, effective Feb. 1.
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Judy Rattner
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1/27/10
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Thanks to the generosity of the Rockville Centre Education Foundation and the South Side High School student government, South Side’s students can now gain international experience without ever leaving campus.
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1/6/10
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Peter Strong and Emma Kriss from the 2010 graduating class were chosen as South Side High School’s Outstanding Physical Education Students for the Nassau Zone of the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
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1/6/10
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To the surprise of both village and school officials, a work crew has installed a gate and several new posts, presumably for a second gate, between the South Side High School campus and Fireman’s Field, adjacent to the school. The work on the gate at the main entrance to the field, which began on Dec. 30, was completed last weekend.
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Judy Rattner
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1/6/10
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As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts.
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12/24/09
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By a margin of 59 to 41 percent, residents of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District defeated a proposed $31.8 million bond in a Dec. 17 vote. The measure would have financed renovations to South Side High School.
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by Judy Rattner
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12/23/09
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