Darwin Yanes

The South Huntington school board has scrapped a plan to reconfigure the district's elementary school buildings, instead opting to establish focus groups to address key transportation and prekindergarten issues.

'Helping people out, it's really rewarding' Marissa LoSardo, a seventh-grade teacher at Nesaquake Middle School in Smithtown, remembers the

The last full-size Kmart store in the United States, located in Bridgehampton, closed its doors and shut the lights for the final time on Sunday.

Voters approved a proposal for the joint middle and high school but rejected one for a grade school.

Officials from a therapeutic day school for girls said their East Norwich building is fully operational nearly a year and a half after a fire ravaged the structure, leaving severe damage and displacing the administration.

The plan, rolled out at a school board meeting Tuesday, surfaced after a high school student allegedly was found with a loaded handgun at school earlier this month.

The ninth-graders in Jennifer Wolfe's class at Oceanside High School were itching to talk about the presidential election.

Port Washington schools Superintendent Michael J. Hynes, a well-known advocate for whole-child education who is credited with helping to raise the

Eight Long Island elementary schools and nine middle schools are among the top 50 in their respective categories in New York State, according to the news magazine.

More than 100 grieving family members and caregivers waited patiently on a chilly Sunday evening for a glimpse of the bright lights that adorned