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Suffolk County Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese Suffolk County Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese
Suffolk County Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese A Long Island community is rallying around a neighborhood’s goose population as an area school district allegedly removed the animal from school grounds, possibly killing them. The animal activist group Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) is accusing officials at Islip High School of hiring the USDA to gather up the geese, their babies, and kill them. It remains unclear if the geese were killed, though according to LION, a whistleblower said that the district has been using taxpayer money to round up and murder mother geese and their babies. “Islip High School (is) a school borderi…

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by Zak Failla
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COVID-19: LI School District Goes Remote, Citing Concern Over Post-Thanksgiving Spike In Cases COVID-19: LI School District Goes Remote, Citing Concern Over Post-Thanksgiving Spike In Cases
Covid-19: LI School District Goes Remote, Citing Concern Over Post-Thanksgiving Spike In Cases A Long Island school district has closed for in-person instruction as a result of concern over a possible post-Thanksgiving spike in COVID-19 cases. The Hauppauge School District said it will switch to distance learning from Monday, Nov. 30 through Friday, Dec. 4. The district held in-person classes five days a week up till now. "I am very concerned about a spike in COVID-19 cases following Thanksgiving," Hauppauge Schools Superintendent Dennis O'Hara said in a video posted on the district's website, "and believe shifting to distance learning for the week that follows will allow …

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by Joe Lombardi