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By Pat Tracy

A Day to Make A Difference …

By Margaret Liendo On a beautiful September 26, many students came out to take part in the annual Make A Difference Day. Led by Pat Tracy, the campus minister, and other group leaders, the volunteers traveled to different sites across Long Island to help different communities and organizations in need. Some of those areas included …

Special Olympics 2015

By Margaret Liendo On Sunday, October 18, 108 dedicated volunteers and 75 amazing athletes came out to participate in this year’s New York State Special Olympics at the John A. Danzi Athletic Center. As a first-year volunteer, I was able to experience first hand the impact that this great event has on the athletes. This …

Taking Care of Our Lake and Nature Trail

By Margaret Liendo       On Friday, October 16, the Biology Club held its lake clean up event where many new and current members came out to help and beautify our community lake and school nature trail. One group of students was in charge of clearing the lake that had been devastated by encroaching plants, …

Patchogue Home Fire Preparedness

By Margaret Liendo Stop, drop and roll! This is the famous phrase that is used when you catch fire, but I hope you’ll never have to put it into practice. That is why an important way of being safe when a fire occurs is to know when it occurs and know what your fastest escape …

Ecological Outreach

By Margaret Liendo and Erika Pimentel Okay, so we’re just going to list a couple things and you have to guess what they all have in common: Kool-aid mix, Ramen noodles (chicken flavored of course) and tea. Anything come to mind? Well, instead of making you hungry, we hope that you thought of water. Water …

A Yankee Legend

By Allison Kamel “It ain’t over till it’s over.” “No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.” “It gets late early out there.” “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Everyone, it seems, has a favorite Yogi-ism. Even though Yogi didn’t say half the things he really said, each one still brings a smile to …

Book Review of ‘Fangirl’

By Gabbie Borrero Rainbow Rowell has done it again — she’s created another brilliant, masterfully written novel that is hilarious with a bit of edge. Fangirl sets up 18year old Cather “Cath” Avery and her twin sister Wren embarking on their first year at college. However, Wren decides not to room with her twin, which …

Tragedy at Umpqua Community College

By Tiana Rooney  In Oregon, the first day of October was greeted with mourning when a gunman*, who was a student at Umpqua Community College, opened fire on the campus, killing nine people — eight of which were fellow students, the other one a retired professor who had returned to teaching this semester —and injuring …

Welcome Back to 2015

By Samantha Stilwagen     On October 21, 2015, at 7:28 p.m., Marty McFly and Doc came to the future. When they came to the year 2015 there were such amazing advancements. There were hover boards, self-tying shoes, flying cars and a prediction about the World Series that many people were hoping to come true. There …