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The Freeport Board of Education, from left, Vilma Lancaster, Anthony Miller, Michael Pomerico, Ron Ellerbe and Ernest Kight.

Freeport Board of Education prepares for upcoming school year

The Freeport Public School District Board of Education voted to reelect Michael Pomerico and Anthony Miller to their posts as president and vice president, respectively, and also introduced Ernest J. … more

8/13/15

The mega-drought, coming to a neighborhood near you

I’ve come back from the future, and if you plan on going, you’d better wear your fire-retardant underwear. more

8/12/15

Theatrical Production Time Machine Jackson five

Student artists shine

Freeport School’s Summer Academy of the Arts culminated its program with a comprehensive showcase of student’s work and skills on Friday, July 31 with “Motown.” Two hundred … more

8/6/15

friends of Freeport planted flowers at the Woodward Children Center.

Woodward Children’s Center gets a facelift

All hands were on deck to help landscape the front of the Woodward Children’s Center in Freeport on Saturday. Woodward staff and students, along with members of Friends of Freeport and staff … more

By Laura Schofer lschofer@liherald.com | 8/6/15

Hofstra University is starting a new occupational therapy program this fall. Directing it will be Dr. Sandra Countee.

Hofstra launching occupational therapy program

Hofstra’s School of Health Professions and Human Services is launching a new graduate program in occupational therapy this fall. more

8/4/15

Newsday's double standard is shocking

In April 2014, two students at St. Anthony’s High School, in South Huntington, brought a Confederate flag to a sporting event. They were subsequently expelled. Later that month, Newsday published an editorial . . . more

7/29/15

J.W. Dodd’s Middle School Class of 2015 moments before the moving ceremony began.

Here comes Freeport High School’s Class of 2019

September is just around the corner and Dodd’s class of 2015 will be moving up to Freeport High School. The J.W. Dodd Middle School’s Class of 2015 recently celebrated its moving-up … more

7/23/15

Connie Roberts, of Merrick, who lived for a time in Bellmore, recently published her first poetry collection, “Little Witness,” to much acclaim. It describes a harrowing childhood at one of Ireland’s notorious industrial schools.

Poetry reveals a child’s torment

Each night as a child, Connie Roberts stroked her white plastic rosary beads, recited her prayers and curled up in her comfortless bed at the Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, in Ireland’s Midlands region. She often heard screams echo through the cavernous institution. Now 52, Roberts can still hear them in her head. They were, she said, “the worst.” more

By Scott Brinton | 7/22/15

Education Law

Q: Are my child's private Facebook postings truly confidential? A: Maybe not. It has long been the law that schools can look at and use social media postings done outside … more

By Lynn M. Brown | 7/22/15

A blueprint for college admissions

There is a tremendous amount of paperwork to be done, much of it with strict due dates. OK, let’s get into the nuts and bolts of it. more

7/16/15

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