Just me and my shadow at Deer Park High School
      On February 2, there were many shadows to be seen as tenth graders at Deer Park High School participated in Teens on the Job, Long Island Groundhog Shadow Day. Teens on the Job, a program of the Long Island Mentoring Partnership, provides tenth grade students with experiential learning about a chos...
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Booking for books in Deer Park
      To encourage students to read, John Quincy Adams School, in the Deer Park School District, held its annual Scholastic book fair. Kindergartners and first and second graders scoured the shelves for books of interest. There were many to choose from as their selection included Clifford, Franklin, Arth...
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North Babylon
to present
Parent University
      The Parent and Youth Activities Committee (P.Y.A.C.) of North Babylon is presenting a series of workshops on "Parenting in the New Millennium." North Babylon residents will receive service credits for any workshops attended. These credits can be applied to registration fee for future P.Y....
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A carnival attraction
      Third graders at John F. Kennedy Intermediate School, in the Central Islip School District, attended a fun-filled carnival. Although there were balloons and popcorn, this wasn’t any ordinary carnival; it was a math and science carnival. The main attraction were 25 events, which were set up at diffe...
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Former Met visits West Islip students
      Former New York Met and two-time Cy Young Award winner, Brett Saberhagen, recently visited the Westbrook Elementary School in West Islip to help kick-off the 2001 PARP (Parents as Reading Partners) program. This year’s theme is "baseball," and Saberhagen’s inspiring and motivating talk wi...
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Success at Suffolk DECA competition
      Members of Babylon High School’s newly formed DECA club traveled to Suffolk Community College on January 10 to compete in the county DECA competition. Competing against over 1,000 other Suffolk high school students in categories such as accounting, visual advertising, marketing and job interview sk...
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Girls CYO team finishes 2nd on Long Island
      The St. Joseph’s girls CYO basketball team ended their 2000-2001 season by earning a spot in the final competition. They finished in second place in all of Long Island.
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The annual 5K Fun Run, Walk and Jogathan in West Islip was held recently.
      The winners of the 5K race are: first male student: J.C. Collins, (17.31); Charles Spiniccha and Gary Jensen, (both 19:02); first female student: Brittney Finnegan, (23:52); first runner with a pet: Dixie Troiano, (26:31); first district employee: Donna Ricci, (29:53); first school administrator: D...
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