Herricks News

Five priests and four deacons concelebrated the Mass proceeding the farewell party for the pastor of Corpus Christi, James Bowman.

Each year I track the results of the New York State Grade 8 English/Language Arts and Math assessments.

We dona t know when the district actually began operating its own school. There was a school by 1842 , and maps from the 1850s show a schoolhouse in the location of the former Administration Building.

Last Thursday, in anticipation of a larger turnout than usual, the School Board meeting was moved from the classroom-sized meeting room to the auditorium of the community center.

Several years ago Jane Modoono and I both visited a new engineering school, Olin, just outside of Boston.

Building Schools Edition, Part III: 1. School district property tax rate, per $100 of assessed valuation in Fall 1946: $1.17; in Fall 1951: $2.93; in Fall 1956: $5.20; Fall 1961: $5.87; Fall 1966: $7.30 . Despite the school construction program, the property tax rate actually fell significantly two school years in a row, 1959-61, due to mass home ...

Outgoing president Jean Vallone Gagliardo was honored at the 41st nnual Cellini Lodge No.

At the outset of the last Herricks School Board meeting, Herricks Board President Richard Buckley announced that the "geese are gone!" He said that the company the board hired to rid the area of the geese, Geese Off, were able to rid the fields and areas of geese in record time and therefore the cost to the district was not as much as was ...

Though it is not located in the Herricks district, it is the area's most prominent topographic landmark and has been honored in the names of numerous public and private institutions.

At the last Herricks school board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Jack Bierwirth announced that due to the energy efficiency of the district, the district has received a rebate from Long Island Power Authority .

In 1926, housing developer William F. Chatlos announced that he had made an initial purchase of 161 acres of farmland on both sides of Willis Avenue, on which he would construct at least 1,000 standardized houses in the Dutch Colonial style.

Denver's newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, went out of business last week after 150 years of publication.

Debbie Beers has announced that she is running for Herricks School Board trustee against incumbent Richard Buckley, who is running for reelection.

At the last Herricks school board meeting, the board voted to get rid of the geese that are wrecking the playing fields and walking areas at all Herricks schools for once and for all.

Street Names Edition, Part I: 1. Local street names were picked by housing developers, though local governments had final approval.

At the last Herricks School Board meeting the draft of the 2009-2010 budget was presented to the board and to the public by Herricks Superintendent Dr.

Seventeen streets named for military and political figures from the 1898 Spanish-American War were laid out south of I.U. Willets Road on the east side of Searingtown Road, plus four additional streets south of ...

Students at Center Street Are "Unplugged" In the early 1990s a national study indicated that 50 percent of 13-year olds in the United States watched three hours or more of television every day and that half of ...

Edwin Herricks, a University ecological engineering professor, has spent the last nine years researching a radar that will detect birds and other objects in the air in an attempt to improve aviation safety.

Herricks High School Teacher John Lavas demonstrating 40-lb backpack to be carried on Ecuador expedition in July.