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Riverhead BOE expected to adopt $111.5 million budget tonight
The Riverhead school board is expected to adopt the superintendent's proposed 2012-13 school year budget at Tuesday night's board meeting. Superintendent Nancy Carney has proposed a roughly $111.5 million spending plan for next school year, which trims more than $3.2 million to keep the district under the state's 1.73 percent tax...
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‘Pink slime’ is off the menu in Riverhead
What’s come to be called “pink slime,” a beef filler that’s grossed out much of America, will no longer be served in Riverhead schools, officials said this week. But the move doesn’t come with out collateral damage. Kids, say good-bye to your tacos. Superintendent Nancy Carney told the News-Review this week that Riverhead...
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Shoreham-Wading River adopts $62.6M spending plan
The Shoreham-Wading River school board will be putting a $62.6 million budget for the 2012-13 school year up to voters in May. The proposed budget was approved at Tuesday night’s board meeting at the middle school, where the board also voted to allocate extra funds from state aid into a capital...
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Carney: More state aid means fewer layoffs for Riverhead
Due to an increase in state aid, the Riverhead school district will be able to retain "at least two" of the teachers and teaching assistants who were told in February they would be out of a job next school year to cut costs, school officials said Monday. Superintendent Nancy Carney said...
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School board preview: SWR expected to adopt $62.35 mil budget proposal
CORRECTION: This meeting takes place in the middle school, not the high school. The Shoreham-Wading River school board is set to vote Tuesday night on adopting a proposed $62.35 million 2012-13 school budget, setting the proposal up for a district vote this spring, according to the school board meeting's agenda. (See ...
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Local school districts receive increase in state aid for 2012-13
Both public school districts serving Riverhead Town will receive a more than 5 percent increase in state aid this year under the revised school aid numbers in the state budget passed in Albany last week. The Riverhead School District will receive $17.1 million in aid next school year, a 5.59 percent...
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Riverhead school construction work on schedule to begin this summer
Construction work is on track to begin this summer at several Riverhead schools as part of a $78.3 million capital improvements bond, officials said at Tuesday's school board meeting. Renovations at Phillips Avenue Elementary School, which include enlarging the school's library, are expected to begin June 25, said Larry Salvesen, an...
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A Timothy Hill charter school could cost district, Riverhead officials warn
Supporters of a Timothy Hill charter school in Riverhead made their presence known at Tuesday night's public hearing. But some residents and Riverhead school officials said that while they supported Timothy Hill's mission, they were concerned mandatory fees owed to the charter school would cost the public school district too much. The...
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Riverhead School Board to discuss charter school application
The Riverhead school board will hold a public hearing at its meeting Tuesday night to discuss an application from a local non-profit to establish a charter school for troubled youths within the district, according to the meeting’s agenda. Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch, a home for abused or neglected boys located on...
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New alternative school will hold classes at East End Arts facility
The North Fork moms who are organizing the alternative Peconic Community School have signed a one-year lease with East End Arts in downtown Riverhead to hold their first year’s classes in EEA’s Community School of the Arts. The school plans to offer a multi-age class this fall for kindergarten through third-grade...
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5th grade Shoreham-Wading River novelists show off their work
Dozens of Shoreham-Wading River fifth-graders showed up at Tuesday night's school board meeting to show off non-fiction books they had written for a class project. Every student in the fifth grade chose a topic to write about, researched, wrote, illustrated and published a short book on their subject. The students wrote...
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Riverhead team triumphs in youth court competition
The Riverhead girls basketball team wasn't the only local team to win a title and make history this month. The Riverhead Youth Court took first place the 10th Annual Youth Court Competition last Thursday at Southampton Town Justice Court. The local team is made up of 46 students from grades 8 through...
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Photos: A sneak peek of ‘West Side Story’
The Riverhead High School drama club, called the Blue Masques, is getting ready present the Broadway musical "West Side Story" — with the first of four shows scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, March 24, in the high school auditorium. A matinee performance is then scheduled for 2 p.m. this Sunday, March...
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Special education class size changes draw concerns at SWR meeting
A new Shoreham-Wading River district policy on special education classroom sizes drew concern at Tuesday night's school board meeting. The chief concern was that, while the policy was made with good intentions now, future school boards could abuse it to cut costs. The policy increases the maximum ratio of students to teachers...
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SWR school board to hold fourth budget workshop (see agenda)
The Shoreham-Wading River superintendent will discuss the district's special education program, health services, technology and the 2012-13 school year curriculum during the district's fourth budget workshop of the year tonight, Tuesday. Superintendent Steven Cohen will continue his presentations on the proposed 2012-13 budget, which calls for a 3.98 percent spending increase...
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Photos: Riley Avenue first graders parade through school for St. Patrick’s Day
About 120 first graders pulled their little St. Patrick's Day Parade floats through the hallways of Riley Avenue Elementary School Friday afternoon as their schoolmates, parents, grandparents and others sat in the gymnasium to cheer them on. The Calverton school Celebrates the holiday every year with a parade. Calverton was once nicknamed...
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Riverhead girls basketball players — the LI champs — head to Troy
Hundreds of students filled the bleachers at Riverhead High School Thursday morning to see off the varsity girls baskeball team at a pep rally just before the players left for the school's first-ever state semifinal game in Troy, N.Y. (See more photos below.) The rally started just before 10 a.m. in the...
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Watch Riverhead girls basketball games live this weekend on riverheadnewsreview.com
The Riverhead girls basketball team is playing in the final four of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class AA championships this weekend. And the Riverhead News-Review will be broadcasting the games live. The News-Review purchased the broadcast rights this week and we will be streaming live video of...
