Freeport Dollars for Scholars’ scholarship applications have been distributed to seniors in Freeport High School and in the private schools.

Seventy-five students from New Visions Elementary School will have a rare opportunity to speak to astronauts aboard Expedition 22 as they orbit the Earth. The youngsters will take part in a half-hour videoconference at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City on April 20.

To prepare for the encounter, Rick Angler, an educator from the museum, visited the school to teach students about space exploration.

“If you were going on a trip to space, what would you need to take with you?” he asked a room full of second-, third- and fourth-graders.

I am writing to tell you about a wonderful event which took place in December, 2009 and is still on-going.  This is also a public thank you note to Wendy Lindner and her students in the AP Psychology class at Freeport High School.  

My Columbus Kindergarten class won a lottery to go to Build-A-Bear in Roosevelt Field.  We were the envy of our entire school.  When Mrs. Lindner and I got to speak, she explained that she was trying to make some developmental psychologists like: Erickson, Piaget and Kohlberg "come alive" to her adolescent students.  Many emails between Alma Rocha, Peggy Miller and Ernie Kight and Mrs. Lindner solidified the logistics of combining the very different age levels and schedules.  Mrs. Lindner and her students worried that no one would be interested.  Were they wrong?

On Martin Luther King weekend, January 16-18^th 2010, the distinguished Freeport High School Senior Select Chorale, now under the direction of Mrs. Monique Retzlaff, sang Faure’s Requiem sponsored by Mid-America Productions. This performance is a tradition introduced by the former Conductor, Stephen Pagano.