Waltzing their way to self-confidence
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Fourth-grade students from Ogden Elementary School recently concluded a 10-week, 20-session ballroom dance program through Dancing Classrooms Long Island: Transforming Lives One Step At A Time, a social development and arts-in-education residency program that aims to help young people develop a positive self-image and essential life skills such as confidence, respect for others and social awareness.
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3/18/15
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High School is a tough time for most students. More problems, schoolwork gets harder, tests and essays become more common, friendships change, and boom — you’re dropped into a new environment; a guppy in a swarm of larger fish leaving you to fend for yourself as you strive for success. Throw in being that “new kid in school” and things begin to feel all the more chaotic than ever.
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Lauren Dana
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4/2/14
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Playing on a snow day in the Five Towns
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Kids off from school in the Five Towns made the most of their time off to play in the snow.
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1/22/14
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Making a snow angel in Hewlett Neck
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On Harold Road in Hewlett Neck, Herald student columnist Alison Hagen took photos of her brother, Bradley, an eighth-grader at Woodmere Middle Schhol.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/3/14
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It was the crime of the century in our community, and the horror of those days is never far from the surface in the South Shore towns where the families of Kelly Ann Tinyes and Robert Golub lived and worked and went to school.
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12/19/13
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Robert Golub, who was convicted in 1990 of the March 1989 killing of Valley Stream neighbor Kelly Ann Tinyes, was denied parole, the state Parole Board.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/25/13
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Robert Golub, the Valley Stream resident who was convicted of killing his 13-year-old neighbor Kelly Ann Tinyes in April 1990, is applying for parole.
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By Jeff Bessen Andrew Hackmack
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10/18/13
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For the second consecutive year Woodmere Middle School eighth grader Lenny Khazan won a $1,600 scholarship to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco from June 10-14.
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By Ann Friedman
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7/3/13
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The night before the National History Bee Championships on June 1, Woodmere Middle School eighth-grader Alec Fischthal laid in his hotel bed in Atlanta counting emperors and kings.
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By Ann Friedman
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6/12/13
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Sharing their creativity with the community
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Approximately 25 performers sang songs that they wrote or admire, shared poetry and their original prose during Vintage Open Mic Night held at Woodmere Middle School on Feb. 22.
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2/27/13
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