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Closure Of Suffolk County Elementary School Under Consideration By Board Of Education Closure Of Suffolk County Elementary School Under Consideration By Board Of Education
Closure Of Suffolk County Elementary School Under Consideration By Board Of Education It appears the writing’s on the chalkboard for this Long Island elementary school. The West Babylon Union Free School District is weighing a plan to close Forest Avenue Elementary amid declining enrollment and rising costs. At a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14, district officials presented the findings of a study launched last summer showing 761 fewer students since 2010 – roughly the equivalent of a large elementary school.  Enrollment is projected to continue declining over the next five years, the district said. The study concluded that consolidating the district’s …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Name Released Of 15-Year-Old Killed In Hudson Valley Shooting That Led To Manhunt, Arrest Name Released Of 15-Year-Old Killed In Hudson Valley Shooting That Led To Manhunt, Arrest
Name Released Of 15-Year-Old Killed In Hudson Valley Shooting That Led To Manhunt, Arrest This story has been updated. The name has been released of a teenage boy who was killed in a fatal shooting in Northern Westchester that led to a 12-hour manhunt and the arrest of a suspect. Fernando Jimenez, age 40, shot his girlfriend and her two children with an illegally possessed handgun in the Baldwin Place section of Somers during a domestic dispute at about 11:35 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28, according to New York State Police. One of the children, a 10th-grade student at Somers High School now identified as Michael Raimondi, age 15, was killed.  The boy's brother, a 13-year-…

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by Joe Lombardi