Students at both W.T. Clarke and Woodland middle schools were recognized as “Terrific Kids” for September, October and November during the Nov. 19 East Meadow School District Board of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/3/15
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A Parkway Elementary School student started a small fire in the building last Wednesday, East Meadow School District administrators said, causing an evacuation. Superintendent Leon Campo said that …
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/3/15
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East Meadow High School Senior Elton Ha was one of only 125 teen musicians among the millions in the country selected to the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band. Music teacher Molly Tittler …
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/3/15
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East Meadow School District Superintendent Leon Campo said that an injustice happened in the community in October. Then, McVey Elementary School officials learned that student “opt-outs” in last …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/30/15
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From Nassau County leaders to East Meadow residents, community members have expressed concerns about safety and hopes for global peace in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut last …
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By Adrienne Lyons and Julie Mansmann
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11/27/15
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Barnum Woods Elementary School fourth-graders paid tribute to family members and friends who served the nation at the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony on Nov. 10. Ellen DiCocco, a fourth grade …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/27/15
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With gallons of water in hand, Woodland Middle School students walked around the building’s grounds last week to raise funds and food for two charities designed to help the thirsty and hungry: …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/27/15
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East Meadow School District administrators, Board of Education trustees, teachers, parents and community members gathered at the Leon J. Campo Salisbury Center last week with one goal in mind: …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/20/15
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From Oct. 23 to 31, many East Meadow School District students celebrated Red Ribbon Week - an alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention awareness campaign observed annually.
Students …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/13/15
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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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