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Fomer Northport school superintendent Robert Banzer has been named interim school superintendent for the Waterloo school district in the Finger Lakes region of the state. Banzer, who left Northport after eight years, will serve for the rest of the school year. The Waterloo school board Read More …
Two school districts will consider next week what to do with some of their buildings, with one eyeing a sale, and the other examining repair and modernization. A real estate agency will present information about the sale or lease of three school buildings at the Read More …
Declining enrollments have led the Northport school district to close schools and put the buildings on the market. Northport resident Doug Roberts shared this letter to the mayor about the possibility of the village government moving into one of the buildings. Read More …
The state health department will hold a virtual public meeting July 7 to discuss the findings of a cancer study of people living in the Northport-East Northport School District. The study, released last week, noted a “statistically significant” number of cases of leukemia and other Read More …
Some parents in the Northport-East Northport school district are joining their children in music class. The district has invited parents to learn and play alongside their children four times per month in the newly expanded third-grade string program. By including parents, the hope is that Read More …
Silas Wood Sixth Grade Center will continue its remote-only schedule Thursday and Friday after some new positive coronavirus results were reported Wednesday evening, South Huntington school superintendent Dr. David Bennardo said. The school was remote Wednesday because of the need to complete contact tracing on Read More …
With a settlement or judgment pending on LIPA’s tax challenge lawsuit against the Town of Huntington, here’s a look at the financial details of the town budget. LIPA picks up the tab for National Grid’s Northport power plant’s property taxes. Currently, it pays roughly $86 Read More …
Updated: A report from Moody’s Investor Service is warning that the closing of the Northport Middle School could drive down property values, Newsday wrote Monday. And with a possible negative decision in the LIPA tax challenge, Newsday quoted Moody’s as saying property taxes could simultaneously Read More …
The Town Board voted Tuesday against forming a committee to look into health concerns at Northport Middle School. Councilman Eugene Cook had proposed the committee but the board rejected the idea, 4-1, with the majority deciding to defer to the school district, which had opposed Read More …
Kindergartners and first graders at Ocean Avenue Elementary School will be relocated to another school for the fall semester because roof repairs are taking longer than expected. Superintendent Robert Banzer told parents in a letter that “What we initially hoped was a minor problem is, Read More …
The Northport school board has scheduled two emergency meetings for the coming week. The first is scheduled Tuesday. The board notice states that it will convene a public hearing to “act upon a resolution, upon majority vote, to immediately convene into Executive Session to discuss Read More …