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Vol. 20 No. 13
MARCH 26 - APRIl 1, 2020
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L.I. Marathon postponed to October the marathon’s postponement. Race Director Corey Roberts, of Race Awesome, said The Jovia 2020 Long Island that the race requires the supMarathon has been postponed port of hundreds of members from May 1-3 to Oct. 2-4, offi- of the county health, parks, cials announced on March 20. emergency management and Named p u b l i c after its w o r k s new title de par tsponsor, the ments, all J o v i a of whom Financial n o w h av e C r e d i t their hands Union — f u l l . Ro b for merly erts met NEFCU — with counWhen: Oct. 2-4 and in its ty officials second year on March Where: Eisenhower Park with a new 19 to develcourse, the op a schedRegistration for those who marathon, ule for the have not yet entered w h i c h new race begins and weekend. opens at midnight ends in T here on May 15. Eisenhower will be a 5K Park, is one run on Friof Long day, Oct. 2, Island’s a 10K on best-known running events. Saturday and a 13.1-mile half Staging the race takes the marathon on Sunday. All those coordination of many depart- who have already registered ments of county government, are guaranteed entry. There wh o s e re s o u rc e s a re n ow will be no full marathon or focused on curbing the spread 35.5-mile challenge, however, of the coronavirus, County and athletes will have the Executive Laura Curran wrote option of transferring their in a Facebook post addressing Continued on page 5
By BRIAN StIEGlItZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
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Courtesy Patsy Mustafich
StudENtS IN tHE East Meadow School District have been adjusting to remote learning. Patsy Mustafich helped her son Sebastian, a kindergartner at McVey Elementary School, complete a worksheet while they watched the morning announcements on YouTube.
Adjusting to remote learning
Staffs take steps to make students comfortable By BRIAN StIEGlItZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
While students adjust to a remote-lear ning environment, teachers and administration in the East Meadow School District are taking steps to bring the classroom to the living room — literally. Kerry Dunne, the principal of McVey Elementary School, has been uploading the school’s morning announcements to the YouTube channel “Good Day McVey.”
On Monday, she uploaded the announcements from her home, and stood in front of a McVey banner draped over her TV. The video began with her wishing happy birthday to students born on March 23. All work is posted on the district’s website, including preparation for the English Language Arts tests, despite the State Education Department’s delay in shipping the test for grades three through eight, which were scheduled to arrive in schools March
16-18. The district has also been using Google Classroom, a free web service through which teachers communicate with and offer lessons to their students. Teachers and staff members like Dunne are making additional efforts. In each video, she presents a series of challenges for students while they learn at home. One of them is to start a joke book, Continued on page 6