Central High School’s two gymnasiums were filled with holiday items as the PTSA hosted its annual craft fair last Saturday. There were 92 vendors — local and from across Long Island — featuring a variety of items, much handmade. 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

It was built in the rain and dedicated in the cold. In between, the new gazebo at Hewlett House has become a popular spot for those who are battling cancer. more

For the sixth year , the Patrick Xavier Owens’ Games will be held at East Rockaway High School on Dec. 19, beginning at 10 a.m. The annual event, which was organized by Patrick’s brother, Alan, is in the memory of a brave young boy who died in 1997, at the age of five. more

A recent string of fires at Calhoun High School in North Merrick has prompted an arson investigation, officials say. According to Vincent McManus, division supervisor at the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office, there have been six suspicious fires at the school since Nov. 19, three of which the North Merrick Fire Department responded to. 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