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Vickie Moller is a professional freelance writer and a regular contributor to LongIsland.com. Her focus is on Long Island’s schools and creating informative directories based on themes and events around the Island. She also contributes stories from personal interviews with Long Island professionals and newsmakers. With a tremendous respect for the power of the written word, Vickie works hard to serve her readers with accurate, timely and comprehensive news and information.
Vickie can be reached at VickieM@longisland.com
By Vickie Moller January 15, 2013
In today's hard economic times, it's not unusual for even the most qualified college graduates to have difficulty finding jobs.
By Vickie Moller January 11, 2013
The Long Island Volunteer Center, a volunteer-run agency established in 1992 to provide, promote and support volunteer service on Long Island, will host a week-long book and school supply drive at the Long Island Voluntary ...
By Vickie Moller January 09, 2013
Lindsay Dower, a senior ar East Rockaway High School, has been named Upstander of the Month for January 2013 by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, an education and resource center dedicated ...
By Vickie Moller January 04, 2013
Gov. Cuomo's New York Education Reform Commission has recommended the creation of a statewide full-day Pre-K program, an initiative representing the first state-sponsored educational program of its kind in New York.
By Vickie Moller January 02, 2013
In honor of the life and legacy of the late Matthew T. Crosson, a renowned business leader, attorney and television commentator, his family has established a memorial scholarship fund in support of Stony Brook journalism ...
By Vickie Moller December 28, 2012
For most, the opulence and exclusive waterfront properties of the Hamptons hardly seem synonymous with homelessness.
By Vickie Moller December 21, 2012
SCOPE Education services recently introduced a virtual, interactive online college preparatory program in New York State.
By Vickie Moller December 18, 2012
School leaders across the country have been communicating heartfelt condolences and messages of comfort and assurance to parents and children that their schools are safe in the aftermath of the mass killing inside Sandy Hook ...
By Vickie Moller December 17, 2012
Once again, it's time to make plans to ring in the New Year--and Long Island is one of the best places to celebrate in style!
By Vickie Moller December 14, 2012
Each year, out of the 1.57 million students who take the ACT Test, a national college admission and placement examination, less than one-tenth of one percent earn the highest possible composite score (36).
By Vickie Moller December 11, 2012
Last June, the New York State Senate passed the 2012 College Affordability Plan, legislation sponsored by Senator Kenneth P. LaValle to help middle-class families and students afford the increasingly prohibitive cost of a college education.
By Vickie Moller December 06, 2012
New York State Senator Kenneth P. LaWalle, Chairman of the New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education said that technologies being developed at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory may hold the solution ...
By Vickie Moller December 04, 2012
As part of its partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, Hofstra University announced that it has increased its purchase of green power
By Vickie Moller November 29, 2012
Last month, the Western Suffolk BOCES, the Nassau BOCES and the Eastern Suffolk BOCES, in partnership with NYSCATE, hosted Long Island Tech Summit 2012 in Melville.
By Vickie Moller November 27, 2012
Raymond Ankrum, the new executive director and principal of the Riverhead Charter School, wants to take the school to new levels--literally.
