Posts tagged riverhead

Peconic Bay Housekeepers Find Strength as Mother and Daughter During COVID-19

Leslie Gettling and her mother, Ingrid Castillo, let me into their lives as housekeepers on the front lines of Peconic Bay Medical Center during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Their candidness made this story feel so immersive, like I was shadowing them from afar — and I am so thankful to them both for it.

Keep loving and supporting each other, everyone.

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Distance Learning More Of A Challenge For Kids With Special Needs

Across the country, parents and teachers are grappling with maintaining a sense of normalcy as education has moved entirely online and in-home, leaving students to navigate an endless portal of Zoom video calls, YouTube lessons and Google Doc assignments that have become status quo — except for the nearly 7 million students nationwide who have a disability.

This is a look into their new normal.

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CeeLo Green Taps Holiday Spirit

As it turns out, CeeLo Green is an absolute sucker for Christmas.

“It’s truly a spirit and a notion, inclination, emotion that gets inside of you,” he said during a recent telephone interview from his home in Miami, “and it’s like a friendly ghost because it’s the same one every time.”

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