Kindergarteners, 1st graders and 2nd graders at Sunquam had a great time planting to dress the school up for spring during their annual Planting Event. It was a beautiful day!

Congratulations to Hills East's Amir Estejab, Anand Nambiar, Daniel Salkinder and Alana Zinkin on being recipients of 2022 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships!

Congratulations to Hills West's Emma Zoccoli and Hills East's Jaiveer Gujral on being recognized by local legislators with the Students Building Bridges Award through The Jewish Community Relations Council of Long Island, Yom HaShoah.

Seniors at Hills East proudly sported the gear of the college they plan to attend next fall as part of Decision Day 2022. Congratulations to all of the seniors from East going on to college, the military, trade schools and the workplace!

Congratulations to Hills West's Ashley Park and Alyssa Spano and Hills East's Jeanna Boltz, Anneliese Perfetti, and Alana Zinkin on being chosen from hundreds of entries to exhibit their artwork in the 2022 Long Island's Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum! Ashley received the Best in Show 1st Place Award!

Congratulations to Hills East's Samir Batheja on being named a Simons Fellow in the Simons Summer Research Program!

Congratulations to Hills West's Nicolette Reale on winning a 2022 National Merit Pfizer Inc. Scholarship!

Recently, Hills East juniors Jack Zaremsky and Dylan Rosenberg competed at the DECA ICDC International Business Competition in Atlanta, GA.

Hills West celebrated their seniors' post-secondary plans on National College Decision Day!

Otsego Pre-K students created sashes and belts out of recycled good and wrote goals on how they could help the planet! They went on a "pollution patrol" to help keep Otsego clean.

The Suffolk County Basketball Coaches Association recently awarded the Alexander Aurrichio Award (Hills West Class of 2008) to a student-athlete who exemplified high character, integrity, loyalty, and commitment to his team. Senior Derek Varlack of Hills East was selected by former Hills West boys basketball coach, Bill Mitaritonna, and 2022 Suffolk County Coach of the year, Pete Basel of Hills East.

Congratulations to Hills West senior Kristy Martinez on being selected as the recipient of two incredible scholarships! She was 1 of 100 students selected to receive a $40,000 scholarship and paid internship at Amazon through the Amazon Future Engineers Program, and she is also the recipient of "The Gates Scholarship (TGS)" which is a highly selective, last-dollar scholarship for outstanding high school seniors.

Congratulations to Hills East junior Sophia Esposito on competing in the USAG Region 6 Gymnastics competition and becoming Region 6 AA 2022 Champion in her age division!

Hills West senior Marlene McKinney was recently awarded a $1000 scholarship from the Science National Honor Society!

US News & World Report recently released the 2022 ranking of the Best High Schools in America. Only 19 Long Island high schools were ranked in the top 1,000, and we are pleased to announce that both Hills East (#392 US / #47 NY) and Hills West (#759 US / #80 NY) made the top 1,000! Congratulations to our students, teachers, administrators, staff and community!

Congratulations to our Hills East students in Mr. Regini's Project Lead The Way classes who were accepted as finalists in the NASA HUNCH program where they engineered, designed and prototyped solutions to problems onboard the International Space Station. As finalists, they traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston to present to a room of NASA engineers and astronauts.

Candlewood students worked together to create a puzzle piece representative of each advisory at their school, with each piece becoming a part of a school-wide collaborative art project.

Congratulations to Hills East's Xavier Lewis and Derek Varlack who were named to the N.Y. State Sportswriters Association's 2022 All-State Team and Newsday's All-Long Island boys basketball team for 2022!

Congratulations to all of our students at Hills East and West that participated in our Spring Athletic Signing Day!

Congratulations to Hills West's Neferetari Jones on earning Honorable Mention in the 2022 National Chinese Speech Contest!

Congratulations to the Hills East Computer Club for competing in the Quinnipiac University Hybrid Computer Programming Contest, where the team of Daniel Salkinder, Mark Shapiro and Alice Wang finished in 1st Place out of 30 teams!

Mrs. Sundermier's Green Team Lunch Club at Candlewood is doing their part to save our planet by recycling at their school.

Congratulations to Hills East senior Alyssa Studdert for being named in Newsday as one of the Top 100 Girls Lacrosse players on Long Island.

At the Budget Vote and Trustees Election on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, the residents of Half Hollow Hills will have the opportunity to vote on a proposition to establish a capital reserve fund for roof replacements. Please visit www.hhh.k12.ny.us/capitalreserve to learn more about this proposition.