It is widely recognized that high school is supposed to be the best four years of your life. But it’s almost too uncanny that as a freshman a May 1st 2014 gun threat (and a bomb threat, and another one, and another one…) symbolized and foreshadowed what those four years of school life would become….explosive....

While writing the last article that I will ever write in my high school career, I was stumped. There is so much to say about my life here at Wantagh, yet I couldn’t find any words. So many people here have impacted me: the friends I grew up with that I soon have to say goodbye to, the teachers who...

One of the hardest challenges teenagers face is freshman year of high school, though few will admit that. Parents always advise, “Just be yourself” or “Everyone is in the same boat.” For me it was a bit different. True, there was a new grade of timid, self-conscious 14 year olds moving up to...

The Wantagh class of 2017 has 282 students. That includes 11 sets of twins, one set of triplets, and one set of quadruplets – my siblings and I, the Goldricks. Among my siblings, I’m the oldest, one minute older than my sister Katie, two minutes older than Lizzy and three minutes older than our...

This June Mrs. Turner says farewell to her Wantagh teaching days. Mrs. Turner started her journey in the Wantagh School District 31 school years ago. She has taught students in all grades in classes like College English, World Lit., and Creative Writing. She also taught in Wantagh Middle School for eight...