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The music students at Westbury's Powells Lane Elementary School played the Bob Marley song with the lyric "every little thing gonna be all right" in the hallway for the first day of class Tuesday, and in this school, as in most across Long Island, it seemed like everything was.
The Hampton Bays Middle School is barely 2 years old, a "green" building with a replica of a lighthouse above its entrance, evidence of the influence of its South Shore surroundings.
Across Long Island - in districts rich, poor and middle-class - students returning to class this week will be dealing with the fallout from the greatest financial challenges.
Robert Emmett Bowen III died Monday after being struck by a truck in a hit-and-run accident on Second Avenue in Manhattan.
A group of Lido Beach residents are up in arms over the Long Beach school district's plans to build a new athletic field.
Anthony James watched as the new kindergartners - sporting ribboned pigtails, crooked baseball caps and backpacks half their body size - stepped off their buses Wednesday for the first day of class.
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