Remembering our country’s heroes, students in the Primary and Intermediate Schools celebrated Memorial Day with patriotic music, parades, and the placing of flowers around school flags to honor fallen soldiers. In Locust Valley and Bayville, elementary students dressed in red, white and blue, and combined celebrations with somber memorials to honor the holiday. Locust Valley Intermediate School had a special guest speaker, a... (more)

Thank you to the LVCSD community for approving the 2013-2014 school budget! The results are as follows: Proposition 1: 2013-14 Budget: Passed Yes:1329 No:887 Proposition 2: Yes:1476 No:643 Proposition 3: Yes:1370 No:612 Proposition 4: LV Library – Passed Yes:582 No: 264 Two candidates, Susan Petersen Lubow and Kerian Carlstrom, have been elected to the Board of Education for a three-year term... (more)

Fifth graders at Locust Valley Intermediate School won second place in the Anthologies category of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association’s 26th Annual Poetry Contest. The students, from Shari Zindman’s class, wrote poems following the theme, “Songs of the Open Road.” Mrs. Zindman has winners in this contest every year and said she is proud of the students for working so hard and being recognized for their... (more)

Bayville Intermediate School had three winners in the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site National Park Week 2013 Poetry Contest. The BI students swept the fifth-grade category! Congratulations to first-place winner Nina Cialone, second-place winner Matthew Scicutella and third-place winner Daniella Bittner. BI Librarian mentored the young poets for the competition. In its first year, the poetry contest had 200 entries with only 16... (more)

Varsity Girls Lacrosse Team members Lindsay Bleistein and Cassandra Vnook have been selected to the School Girls National Lacrosse Team, which is sponsored by US Woman’s Lacrosse. The LVHS sophomores competed against almost 300 high school lacrosse players for spots on the team. The girls will compete among 1,500 of the most talented high school lacrosse players in the nation on May 25-26 at Lehigh University. “This is the... (more)

First graders at Ann MacArthur Primary School learned about recycling and taking care of the earth during a special presentation in honor of Earth Day. The students took home potted roots that they could plant at home after learning about how trees help the environment. Audrey Bell, the mother of first graders Julia, Sophia, and Cecilia presented Earth Day lesson and provided the soil and roots for the children to plant with the help of... (more)

The Locust Valley High School newspaper, The Spectrum, has received the American Scholastic Press Association’s first place rating for the third year in a row. The Spectrum advisor, Coleen Comerford said the writers and editors are diligent and talented, working very long hours to create a newspaper they can be proud of. “I am so proud of the hard work our reporters, photographers, artists and layout designers have put into... (more)

Two teams of Locust Valley High School students earned second place in Chemagination, a science competition in which more than 40 teams participated. In the environmental chemistry category, Caoimhe Stafford, Emily Schlicht and Niko Martinovic presented their idea of a Black Allen Box to prevent radiation from escaping in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant. Competing in the medicine and drugs category, Tazim Merchant, Joe Kim and... (more)

Under beautiful sunny skies, Lacrosse Day 2013 provided a full day of exciting lacrosse games and fun for all ages. The Locust Valley Varsity and JV teams played at Centre Island, where Oak Neck Athletic League sponsored vendors and refreshments. The Oak Neck lacrosse teams also played throughout the day and the Falcon Pride Booster Club was on site. The community came together to cheer on the athletes, enjoyed a barbecue, and spend... (more)

Three fifth grade Locust Valley Intermediate School students have been recognized as Regional winners in the Toshiba ExloraVision Competition. The team of Hana Glavin, Michelle Hsu, and James O'Connell were honored for their innovation, “Triple C: Carbon Capture for Cars.” These students came up with an innovation that would reduce carbon emissions from cars. This team was coached by librarian Anne Joyce and mentored... (more)