Michael Ebert

Long Island

Reporter at Newsday

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Articles

Long Island 2025 student award winners

2 days ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

A sampling of Long Island high school seniors who won competitions, scholarships and other honors during the 2024-25 academic year.Compiled by Michael R.
20 LI students win first in NY History Day contest

1 week ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

Twenty Long Island students have been named first-place winners for researching local, state, national or world history. The New York State History Day competition, held last month at SUNY Oneonta, included hundreds of projects statewide based on this year’s theme of “Rights and Responsibilities in History,” according to competition officials.
Margie Marotta engages and inspires through Police Explorers program

1 week ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

To some people she is Officer Marotta. To others she is Officer Mom. Margie Marotta, who retired as a police officer in 2023 after working in the Suffolk County Police Department’s First Precinct for 28 years, is perhaps best known for her 17-year tenure as adviser of the precinct’s Police Explorers Program. She said the career club, open to youths between the ages of 14 and 20, grew under her leadership to more than 40 members and became the largest club of its kind in Suffolk County.
MacArthur teacher Vincent Causeman raises money for autism awareness

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

A Levittown father with two children on the autism spectrum has raised more than $100,000 for autism awareness and research over the past 15 years through an annual campaign at the school where he teaches. Vincent Causeman, a social studies teacher at General Douglas MacArthur High School in Levittown for 24 years, raised the amount by spearheading a monthlong campaign coinciding each year with National Autism Acceptance Month in April.
Westhampton Beach wins National Business Plan Competition

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

A Westhampton Beach High School team has been named national champion for the third time in a decade in a competition that challenged participants to create business plans for virtual companies. Team members Aden Ali, Sydney Beardslee, Sophia Biondi, Willow DuBrovin and Maggie Gilbride won first place in Virtual Enterprises’ national Business Plan Competition.
Long Island school budget vote: $16B in school spending on the ballot this Tuesday

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | John Hildebrand |Michael Ebert

School budgets on Long Island could rise 3.68% on average to a total of $16.36 billion in 2025-26, as districts step up career-oriented training and other instruction, while also providing for renovation of classrooms, gyms and other aging facilities. Budget voting is scheduled for Tuesday in 124 districts regionwide, with a total of 335 school-board candidates on ballots, together with more than 100 special propositions.
School aid for Long Island to rise by more than $270M in 2025-26

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | John Hildebrand |Michael Ebert

Long Island school districts will get more than $270 million in additional state aid for the 2025-26 academic year — up nearly 5.4% from the current year — as part of a state budget that will provide a growing share of the region’s education funding. The financial package for Nassau and Suffolk counties, totaling nearly $5.3 billion, represents a $42 million increase from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s original budget proposal in January.
Great Neck North wins LI Physics Olympics

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

A team from Great Neck North High School has taken the title in this year’s Long Island Physics Olympics. The five-student team of Serena Chen, Julian Elihu, Aiden Jin, Jacob Levine and Zheng Zhou bested 14 other groups to win first place in the 39th annual competition, which was sponsored by the Long Island Physics Teachers’ Association. Jericho High School won second place, and Smithtown High School East placed third.
Matthew Gandarillas, of Nesconset, pays it forward to Stony Brook Cancer Center

1 month ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

Nesconset teen Matthew Gandarillas, who survived pediatric cancer as a baby, has given back to the treatment center he credits with saving his life. The senior at Smithtown High School East recently raised more than $1,000 and used the funds to purchase gift cards and toys for children undergoing treatment at Stony Brook Cancer Center.
Manhasset student wins best in show in Heckscher Museum competition

1 month ago | newsday.com | Michael Ebert

A Manhasset High School student’s artwork has taken the top spot in a local competition, besting hundreds of high school entrants across Long Island. Hang Mi, a junior, was awarded best in show at “Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum,” an annual juried art exhibition for local high schoolers.