Jericho Schools prepare for reopening scenarios


Jericho Public Schools has set up 10 subcommittees of parents, teachers, administration, learning center instructors and students to participate in decision-making and thinking through scenarios for school buildings and in-class learning to resume for the start of the 2020-’21 district year in late August, as Labor Day falls late on September 7 and schools would be in session. All scenarios […]

Title Swap Tuesdays: Virtual event by Syosset Library

Best Books of Summer 2020 Edition Tuesday, August 4, at 3 PM Excited to hear about our favorite books? Join the Readers’ Services Department for fun, lively, genre-specific presentations of all the books we can’t stop talking about. Leave with a list of great reads! Free. No registration required. Join via Zoom from the link on the Virtual Calendar – www.syossetlibrary.org

Free Covid antibody testing available

Nassau County Legislator Joshua A. Lafazan (Woodbury) is partnering with Advanced Cardiovascular Diagnostics to offer mobile COVID-19 antibody testing aboard their mobile testing facility, which will be stationed in the parking lot of the James H. Vernon School from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14. Cardiovascular screenings will also be offered in addition to COVID-19 testing. “COVID-19 […]

Schools meetings to remain virtual through the fall


During the Thursday, July 2 Jericho Board of Education meeting held via Zoom, Superintendent of Schools Hank Grishman announced that in-person meetings aren’t on the horizon for the district. Instead every Jericho Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting, PTA meeting, parent-teacher meetings, student orientations and all other district meetings will be held only via Zoom and remote participation going forward, […]

July Virtual Events at the Jericho Public Library

Monday, July 13 2:00 PM Profiles: The Urgency of Toni Morrison w/Dr. William Thierfelder 4:00 PM Flex & Tone w/Mindy Vasta 7:00 PM Fit & Fabulous w/Linda Ray  7:00 PM Book Discussion of Freckle Juice ( Grades 1 & 2) Tuesday, July 14 10:30 AM Storytime w/Miss Liz 11:00 AM Guided Meditation for Self Healing w/Patricia Anderson 5:30 PM Teen: […]

Jericho senior’s project featured at international conference


Richard Ren, a Rising Senior at Jericho High School, has spent the last few years researching and designing ways to combat our planet’s growing air pollution problem. He has developed a novel artificial intelligence framework to forecast Earth’s air quality. His work was recently accepted by the Air & Waste Management Association’s 113th annual conference. “Air pollution causes a multitude […]

This Week at the Syosset Public Library

Long Island Naval History in Wartime Thursday, July 9, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. The lecture begins with the country’s first amphibious landing on Plum Island, the British blockade including the wreck of HMS Culloden; submarine warfare and the wreck of the British 22-gun sloop-of-war Sylph during the War of 1812; Confederate raiders capturing Union shipping just offshore during the Civil […]