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01.12.2022 COVID-19

As schools reopened following holiday break, absences due to COVID-19 followed

A spike in COVID cases fueled by the omicron variant has caused widespread absences in North Fork schools in the return from winter break last week. This is against the...

01.03.2022 COVID-19

As schools reopen amid COVID spike, districts to survey parents on at-home testing

As students return to school amid a massive wave of new COVID-19 cases across the region, districts plan to distribute a survey to parents to assess their desire to...

12.17.2021 Education

Local school districts, police aware of unfounded TikTok threat

Schools across the East End — and the country — are seeing a heightened police presence after a social media threat deemed not credible went viral Thursday. A TikTok...

12.10.2021 COVID-19

School districts to issue vaccination surveys to parents as state aims to assist areas that need support

New York State officials will require school districts to issue vaccination surveys to parents to gather additional data in an effort to increase vaccinations for school-age children following the...

08.31.2021 COVID-19

Vaccine mandates or testing for teachers, staff to become reality ‘very shortly,’ governor says

In her first COVID-19 briefing, Gov. Kathy Hochul reaffirmed her stance that teachers and any staff members in schools should be vaccinated or undergo mandatory testing for the virus,...

08.28.2021 Editorials

Editorial: As school resumes, keeping students in classrooms remains top priority

A public school teacher who lives on the North Fork recently told an editor for this newspaper that the school year that ended last spring during the pandemic was...

06.07.2021 COVID-19

Cuomo: Local schools can now lift mask mandates, but only for outdoor activities

Following several days of mixed messaging and mass confusion among school communities across the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday morning that local school districts will be given individual...

01.08.2021 COVID-19

In response to rising COVID-19 cases, school officials urge community to follow guidelines

A growing number of coronavirus cases in the community has led some local school officials to renew calls for masks and social distancing. On Monday, following the holiday break,...

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