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Filling Empty Bowls

Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008
During National Hunger Awareness Month (October), the Sayville High School Art Club and the Sayville School Employees Charitable Foundation hosted an "Empty Bowls" soup/salad dinner event for more than 150 guests in the High School…
Sunday, Oct 5, 2008
Last year's F.Stop 2007, the Discover Sayville Photo Contest, was such a success we had no choice but to bring it back. The only difference is the name, it's now called F.Stop 2008, the Discover Sayville Photo Contest! With well over 100 entrees last year it was a tough decision, but we found three ...
Sunday, Sep 28, 2008
Congratulations to the seven Sayville Music students and five alternates (listed below) who achieved All-State status as a result of the highest proficiency scoring during the NYSSMA festival last spring. These students will perform at the 2008 NYSSMA Winter Conference (Rochester) in December.
Wh...
Thursday, Sep 25, 2008
Whirligigs of colorful exuberance, pinwheels are often associated with the innocence of childhood. However, for several years now, pinwheels have taken on a new meaning. Thanks to the efforts of the Pinwheels for Peace Project, they are visual statements, spinning ideas and general thoughts about th...
Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
The fact that Li is still doing martial arts will come as a relief to those who thought he'd retired. As for Chan, we're not going to get too many more chances to see him this limber without special effects, so consider this a treat. Let's jump right to the middle of the movie and answer the burning...
Monday, Feb 18, 2008
Last Christmas, the first previews for this film hit the big screen, just before the lamentable "Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem." That sneek peek had me thinking that this might be the first good film of 2008. Boy, was I wrong. It seems like this film was written by janitors during the writers' strike....
Friday, Jan 4, 2008
All we can say is SNAP (pun intended)!!! What a great contest. Thanks to everyone who participated, you made this a great online event. There were so many excellent photos submitted, it was hard to decide on just three. After hours of contemplation, we found the winners. Here they are:
First Plac...
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007
Before the main event begins, the audience is held hostage while an interminable Goofy cartoon, "How to Install Your Home Theatre System," is shoved in its collective face. This grossly unfunny debacle is so poorly calculated, so embarrassingly dated and so amateurish in nature that it casts doubt o...
Sunday, Dec 23, 2007
Rich's Rating
To promote this new Tim Burton musical, Dreamworks sponsored a sneak preview for "the goth community." This must have been both problematic (Did everyone in black get in, or were prospective attendees grilled on Bauhaus?) and trendsetting (Coming up: Sneak previews for jocks!). On...
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007
Rich's Rating
For the second year in a row, an apocalyptic film has been released during the holidays; "Children of Men" did okay in 2006, but it didn't have Will Smith, who once owned the 4th of July but now has his sights set on Christmas. (Last year, Smith was starring in "The Pursuit of Hap...