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Four Pulaski Street School sixth graders named winners of annual Hometown Heroes essay contest

by Oct 24, 2017
Four Pulaski Street School sixth graders have been named winners of the annual Hometown Heroes Essay Contest named in honor of PFC Garfield Langhorn

Riverhead cop, Pulaski Street teacher team up to offer bilingual soccer clinic

by May 9, 2017
The kids in the Sunday morning bilingual soccer clinic might not otherwise have a chance to participate in an extracurricular sport.

Pulaski Street School students, teachers receive free dictionaries

by Mar 7, 2017
In honor of Annie O. Plummer, a Georgia housekeeper who single-handedly distributed thousands of free dictionaries to needy schoolchildren, Mari Maki, Riverhead PTO executive...

Riverhead students use ‘giving trees’ to collect gifts, make Christmas brighter for families in need

by Dec 19, 2016
Christmas can be a stressful time for families going through hard financial times, but the students, staff and teachers of Riverhead's schools are helping them out.

Pulaski Street School names Juneteenth Writing Contest winners

by Jun 21, 2016
The winners of the Pulaski Street Juneteenth Writing Contest and their classmates were the guests of honor at an ice cream party in the...

Flag Day at Pulaski Street School: a social studies lesson in real life

by Jun 15, 2016
A 30-minute Flag Day ceremony at Pulaski Street School brought 239 years of history to the fifth-graders.

Beloved Pulaski detention teacher Ronald Boyd dies at 70, former students share their memories

by Feb 10, 2016
The former in-school suspension supervisor, known for hurling tootsie rolls at students and for his patience teaching the game of chess, impacted the lives of countless Riverhead children over his 14 years of teaching with his irresistible sense of humor, his booming voice and his meaningful lessons that his students would carry with them through the rest of their lives.

Candy for the troops: Pulaski Street students collect more than 1,000 pounds of candy for U.S. soldiers

by Nov 10, 2015
The candy will be sent to troops overseas along with handwritten letters and cards from Pulaski School and district elementary school students.

Local hero who threw himself on grenade in Vietnamese jungle is remembered for his courage

by Oct 23, 2015
When they finally found the mangled ruins of the helicopter, scattered deep in enemy territory in the Vietnam jungle, everyone inside was already dead. It was 1969, and Garfield Langhorn was very far away from home.

Pulaski Street fifth graders learn about the history of the American flag

by Jun 15, 2015
Did you know that, when Francis Scott Key penned “The Star Spangled Banner” in 1814, he was really writing about an American flag with 15 stripes, not 13?