Teams from the Nassau County Department of Health fanned out to Rockville Centre’s seven schools on Dec. 18, administering H1N1 vaccinations to staff and students who requested it. more

Assemblyman Bob Barra held his annual Toys for Tots drive to bring a some Christmas cheer to local children. more

The Five Towns Senior Center has partnered with the Hewlett-Woodmere school district to find a new home. The Hewlett-Woodmere school board unanimously approved a lease agreement with the Five Towns Senior Center at its Dec. 16 meeting to have the not-for-profit organization use the former alternative learning program building at Hewlett High School. more

One of the primary objectives for the Central High School District is to prepare its students for college. more

Residents of the Rockville Centre school district today defeated a proposed $31.8 million bond that would have financed renovations to South Side High School. more

Discussions between Rockville Centre village and school district representatives have so far failed to produce progress on the renewal of a longstanding agreement to share expenses and avoid duplication of services, and school officials expressed their frustration and disappointment at the Dec. 9 Board of Education meeting. more

The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted 7-2 at its Dec. 8 meeting to extend Superintendent Dr. Marc Bernstein’s contract for another year, keeping the district leader through June 30, 2011. more

Craig Papach, Kennedy High School's athletic coordinator and a 19-year phys. ed. teacher, had long heard the stories of poverty and loneliness, and he wanted to help. So, on Thanksgiving morning, he and his family piled into their car and made the trek from their suburban home in a quiet Wantagh neighborhood to a tiny church on Beach 94th Street in Queens. They went to lend their hands and, equally important, their ears to a day-long effort to aid the homeless. Papach was one of 10 Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District teachers who joined roughly 100 volunteers from Rock and Wrap It Up, a Five Towns-based nonprofit group founded by Syd Mandelbaum, to feed hundreds of impoverished street denizens, some of whom had not eaten for days. more

As most of you know, the Rockville Centre school district is asking residents to approve a bond to fix current safety issues and improve the education of South Side High School students. This bond will address and solve many critical issues at the school. One of the most important issues it will tackle is the lack of security in our school due to the use of the portable classrooms. more

On the board Special District Meeting, Dec. 17, for the public to vote on the $31.8 million bond issue referendum for renovations to South Side High School. Ballots can be cast in the school’s … more