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High school radio station marks 40th year

Student Seth Noreman sets up alumni Jackie Powell

Photo credit: Jeremy Bales | Student Seth Noreman sets up alumni Jackie Powell (now a programming director at 100.3 The Point) and Justin Medwed to go back on the air at their old high school for the first time since 2005. Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School celebrates the 40th year of its radio station broadcasting on the air in Plainview. (Feb. 10, 2012).

Shawn Novatt, executive producer of WBLI/106.1 FM's "BLI in the Morning" show, used to cut class and head to the basement at Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School and the studios of WPOB, its radio station.

Like him, 17-year-old senior Sarah Cantos admits she spends more time than she should in the studios.

On Friday, on-air personalities past and present huddled at the school with...

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