We urge the Rockville Centre school board not to eliminate the video recording of any of its meetings or work sessions.
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11/11/21
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September was pediatric cancer awareness month, and Rockville Centre-based group the Life for Gina Foundation continued its work to help affected families. Late last month, it partnered with the village and Mary Ruchalski Foundation for a tree lighting at village hall to spread awareness for the lack of funds currently going into pediatric cancer research.
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By Tom Carrozza
tcarrozza@liherald.com
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10/14/21
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The Rockville Centre Board of Education and outgoing Superintendent June Chang reached an agreement on Oct. 7 that will enable Chang to resign in November.
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By Mike Smollins
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10/14/21
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A letter to the Rockville Centre Editor about the recent resignation of the girls' varsity soccer coach at South Side High School.
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9/23/21
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Three former South Side High School soccer players and two coaches will be inducted into the Nassau County High School Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 29 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.
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By Mike Smollins
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9/23/21
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A letter to the Rockville Centre editor concerning the recent situation with the South Side High School varsity girls' soccer coach.
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9/17/21
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South Side High School’s girls’ soccer coaching saga took yet another turn on Monday when the Board of Education accepted the resignation of the team’s new coach, Jude Massillon, after just one week. In his resignation letter to the board, Massillon, who is Black, said he received numerous anonymous phone calls, many of which were “racially derogatory.”
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By Mike Smollins
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9/9/21
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The Rockville Centre Board of Education held an emergency meeting Monday night to respond to the protests that followed the trustees’ decision not to rehire South Side High School’s county-championship-winning girls’ varsity soccer coach, Jennifer Abgarian, and her assistant, Chris Aloisi — but a revote is not in the works.
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By Tom Carrozza
tcarrozza@liherald.com
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8/5/21
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Chants of "Why were the coaches let go? We don't know" could be heard throughout Shepherd Street and Long Beach Road in Rockville Centre on Wednesday as nearly 100 residents took part in a vocal protest in support of two girls' soccer coaches who were not brought back for the 2021-22 season.
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By Tom Carrozza
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7/28/21
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Despite the approval of Superintendent June Chang and Carol Roseto, the Rockville Centre School District’s director of physical education, health and athletics, the Board of Education voted against the rehiring of Long Island high school girls’ soccer Coach of the Year Jennifer Abgarian, as well as varsity assistant coach Chris Aloisi, in separate 3-2 votes at its July 21 meeting.
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By Mike Smollins and Tony Bellissimo
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7/27/21
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