Mattituck alumni celebrate at first-ever all-class reunion: Photos
The first-ever all-class reunion for Mattituck High School drew more than 100 alumni over two days of festivities this weekend. Organizers said more people than expected showed up at The Crazy Fork...
View ArticleMindfulness workshop scheduled for Nov. 2 in Mattituck
The community is invited to attend a workshop on mindfulness practices held in the Mattituck High School Library on Thursday, Nov. 2. This presentation, titled “Building resilience with practical life...
View ArticleMattituck students demonstrate how to stand up to bullying
Mattituck High School students openly bullied each other Monday morning — for educational purposes. The students, members of the Students Against Destructive Decisions club, performed skits for...
View ArticleMattituck remembers influential teacher Tom Brennan
Whenever Marissa Russo thinks of Tom Brennan, she pictures him in his classroom, leaning back in a chair with his feet on the desk and a cup of gas-station coffee in his hand. The 2011 Mattituck...
View ArticleMattituck High School honoring graduates who served in armed services
Mattituck High School graduates who have since served as active members of the armed forces will be honored for their service this week in a ceremony at the school. Coordinated by Barbara Sheryll,...
View ArticleMattituck students help teach suicide prevention to local youth
Twenty Mattituck High School juniors and seniors gathered in the school library Monday morning for a presentation on suicide prevention. During the day-long session, students not only learned about...
View ArticleMattituck students decorate shops for the holidays
With the holidays quickly approaching, Mattituck High School art students are helping bring cheer to local businesses. The students drew stencils on white paper — including drawings of reindeer,...
View ArticleFor a Mattituck soldier’s widow, postcards from Vietnam are everything
All Nancy Bird wanted was for her boyfriend to come home, safe and sound. From May 1967 to May 1969 she waited. A student at Mattituck High School, Ms. Bird raced to the post office on Love Lane every...
View ArticleWork We Do: Dennis Deerkoski, Mattituck math teacher
Hello, I’m Dennis Deerkoski. I’m a math teacher here at Mattituck High School. I’ve been teaching here at Mattituck for about 38 years and, in total, 45 years in this profession. Mattituck really is...
View ArticleBOCES cosmetology students raise money for charity in Riverhead
In the spirit of the holiday season, first-year students in the Eastern Suffolk BOCES cosmetology program put their skills to use for local charitable organizations. Last Wednesday evening, community...
View ArticleNorth Fork schools collect candy and more for the troops
Toothbrushes, tissues, ramen noodles, Jolly Ranchers and more were stacked high atop classroom desks at Mattituck High School as a team of nearly 20 students and volunteers worked swiftly to sort each...
View ArticleMattituck school district’s wellness center to focus on mindfulness
Mattituck High School students will have the opportunity next year to take yoga and other mindfulness classes as an elective during the school day. The classes will be held in the school’s new...
View ArticleFour musicals set to open this month on the North Fork
The next few weeks will be an exciting time for North Fork theater enthusiasts. Three musicals will open at local high schools and one at North Fork Community Theatre. The Mattituck High School...
View ArticlePlan to attend March for Our Lives event later this month
The day after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed, Mackenzie Daly wrote to then-President Barack Obama about gun reform. Now a...
View ArticleBoys Lacrosse: Mattituck’s victory a momentum builder
Mattituck’s 16-4 boys lacrosse win over East Meadow Saturday won’t help the Tuckers in the Suffolk County Division II standings because it was a non-league game. But the way the Tuckers played in the...
View ArticleLocal students participate in walkouts for victims of school shootings
About two dozen Mattituck High School students stood around the school’s flagpole Thursday morning, 13 of them holding daffodils. Each of those 13 students read out the name of a victim of the...
View ArticleLaValle, Palumbo discuss gun control with North Fork students
High school students from Greenport and Southold filed into the library at Mattituck High School Friday, joining Mattituck students seated in chairs forming a “U.” Seated across from the students was...
View ArticleMattituck students collect supplies for Turkish elementary schools
Visitors to Mattituck High School in the last three weeks have been greeted by large cardboard boxes set underneath a poster showing students inside Turkish elementary school classrooms. Many of those...
View ArticleVeterans share stories of war with Mattituck students
Charles Sanders, commander of the American Legion Post 803, posed a question to the group of nearly 50 students at the Mattituck High School Library: How long have they ever gone without a shower? The...
View ArticleMattituck students brave rough seas in annual cardboard boat race
Cardboard and tape. That’s all Mattituck High School physics students could use to craft boats used to loop around a buoy several yards out from the beach Wednesday near the Mattituck Yacht Club on...
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