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2004 - 2005 News Archive

Books 'R' Her: 11 Year Old Middle-Schooler Donates 1,800 Tomes to Archer Street Students

The old adage has it that "There’s no such thing as a free lunch." In June, however, the Archer Street School in Freeport, with the help of an 11 year old sixth-grader, showed that there is, indeed, such as thing as free books.

On Sunday, June 12, the Freeport Long Island Challenge team (the Nassau County champions) beat the Walt Whitman team (the Suffolk County champions) to become the Long Island Challenge Championship Team. This is the first time in Freeport's history that it has won this honor.

Seven Freeport High School alumni who were killed in combat during the Korean War were honored June 9 with the dedication of two shadow boxes containing information and memorabilia relating to their service in Korea.

Principals Appointed for FHS, Atkinson

The Freeport Board of Education has approved the appointment of two experienced administrators to head Freeport High School and Caroline G. Atkinson School, effective July 11.

Kimberlee Pierre, currently principal of the Nassau BOCES Joseph M. Barry Career and Technical Education Center (Barry Tech), will assume leadership of Freeport High School. Named to the top post at Atkinson was Linda G. Carter, principal of East Meadow 's W.T. Clark Middle School, and familiar to many in Freeport from her service as a teacher and administrator at Freeport High School from1985 -1998.

The Freeport School District once again played a prominent role in the Village’s annual Memorial Day Parade. Coordinated by Charles Puricelli-Coordinator of the Arts, singers and musicians from the Freeport schools sang and played their way along Merrick Road, watched and applauded by hundreds of local residents.