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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 August 13, 2013
After being fired four years ago, Anthony Claudio, a special education teacher at Mattituck-Chutchogue Junior Senior High School, will be returning to the classroom following a ruling by a federal judge that he must be ...
By Vickie Moller August 08, 2013
It's been 30 years since the legendary New York Cosmos have played in a professional soccer league, but this year they will again take the field at the North American Soccer League Fall Championship--and they ...
By Vickie Moller August 06, 2013
Former President George W. Bush underwent a successful procedure at a Dallas Hospital Tuesday morning to open a blocked artery after his doctors discovered the condition during an annual physical examination, according to an official ...
By Vickie Moller August 02, 2013
Todd Pinell received an unexpected visit from law enforcement officials Wednesday morning to investigate what the Suffolk County Police Department has labeled "suspicious computer searches."
By Vickie Moller August 01, 2013
Daniel Chong, the 25-year-old University of California San Diego student who was forgotten for five days in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell last April has settled a lawsuit for $4.1 million.
By Vickie Moller July 30, 2013
In 2010 New York State passed a research-based law establishing a new comprehensive, rigorous process for teacher evaluations designed to improve student learning by improving teacher effectiveness.
By Vickie Moller July 26, 2013
Twenty-nine-year-old Carissa Castillo of Shirley was killed Thursday morning when her sport utility vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and collided with a bus, police reported.
By Vickie Moller July 25, 2013
In 2010 the U.S. Department of Education introduced the National Education Technology Plan calling for "applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student ...
By Vickie Moller July 23, 2013
Long Island Rail Road President Helena Williams was joined by Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and dozens of other officials earlier this month at a groundbreaking ceremony for Wyandanch Rising, a ...
By Vickie Moller July 18, 2013
Earlier this month, Congressman Steve Israel called attention to a newly-released National Resources Defense Council report highlighting significant water quality issues at New York beaches and what can be done to mitigate them to ensure ...
By Vickie Moller July 16, 2013
Thanks to a Charitable grant from Bethpage Federal Credit Union, for the third year in a row, five top Long Island Music Students will have the opportunity to study and perform this summer at Usdan ...
By Vickie Moller July 12, 2013
After losing the use of his legs 20 years ago in a car accident and following a six-year battle with alcohol and drug addiction, Gabriel Cordell kept a long-held promise to himself that he would ...
By Vickie Moller July 09, 2013
Real estate moguls Donald Monti, founder of Renaissance Downtowns, and Scott Rechler, CEO and chairman of Uniondale-based RXR Realty, are combining their extensive experience and considerable resources to make the vision of revitalizing Long Island's ...
By Vickie Moller July 03, 2013
Due to the unusually heavy rainfall and residual flooding we've been experiencing across Long Island and New York State, park officials are warning boaters that high waters and fast moving rivers and streams may be ...
By Vickie Moller July 02, 2013
Last year, as Long Islanders were making plans to celebrate the Fourth of July with all its attendant festivities, they had no idea that just several months hence they would be preparing to face one ...
