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11.20.2020 Education

Shelter Island School safe and open; superintendent preaches vigilance

Although Shelter Island Town has tightened practices in response to a rise in COVID-19 cases, the school remains open for in-person learning while Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D., said he...

11.13.2020 Education

Auditor gives Shelter Island School District a clean fiscal report

Following a critical report on its handling of finances from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in May, the Shelter Island Board of Education received a clean bill of...

11.11.2020 Education

Indians soon to be Islanders? Board of Ed releases survey; vote pending on teams’ name change

Results are in from a wide-ranging survey of students, alumni, teachers and staff, parents and community members, calling for Shelter Island School teams, now known as the Indians, to...

11.10.2020 Education

Shelter Island Board of Ed hears from staff experts on pandemic effects

All is well among staff and students at Shelter Island School with the issue of COVID-19. But Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D., said he is vigilant and borrowing lessons from...

10.20.2020 Education

Passing the torch forward for a children’s program

Once a teacher, always a teacher. That’s why Mary Ita Dwyer, after 26 years of teaching in East Williston, found she had to keep going when she retired on...

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10.17.2020 Education

Thiele seeks Presidential Scholar candidates; Island’s Mia Clark was finalist in 2019

Is Shelter Island School harboring students who could be named as U.S. Presidential Scholars? Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) is looking for students in his district who have...

10.14.2020 Education

One month in, Shelter Island School students and staff adjusting to a new reality

A month into the new school year, Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D., is breathing a sigh of relief. “Obviously, we were all nervous at the beginning of the year,” the...

10.09.2020 Education

National Honor Society hosting sneaker drive at school

Members of the National Honor Society typically perform works of community service, but restrictions on activities during the COVID pandemic have precluded many of those interactions. This year, the...

09.25.2020 Education

Cuomo says state will follow own lead on COVID-19 vaccine rollout; school reporting now includes lab data

New York State is creating a pair of advisory task forces to oversee its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The governor said the first...

09.24.2020 Education

Welcome to the new kids on the block: Parents on enrolling children in school

Rachel Rimer and her husband, Mark, knew this was going to be an interesting year, with a new baby arriving in the summer and sons Ethan and Jackson heading...

09.16.2020 Education

School start hailed by Board of Education

After months of planning and hoping that the school would re-open, the start of the 2020-2021 school year was “my most emotional opening ever,” said Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D....

09.09.2020 Education

State to unveil school report card with daily updates on COVID-19 for every district

Data on COVID-19 in local schools will be available on a new state database set to be unveiled soon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday during a media briefing. The...

09.08.2020 Education

What’s in a name —The ‘Indians’ here and all over

At a Board of Education meeting, a speaker asked the members to consider changing the name of its school’s teams’ name, the Indians. It was insensitive to name an...

09.08.2020 Education

Ready, set, go back to school: Parents on expenses and strategies

Eliza McCarthy, 9, turned to her mother and said, “I think we should go shopping for school.” “It was early July,” Tracy McCarthy said, with a laugh. “She said...

09.02.2020 Education

School enrollment spikes for 2020-2021

Jennifer Rylott, Shelter Island School’s director of pupil personnel, data and instruction, reported at the Board of Education meeting Monday evening that the number of new students enrolled now...

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