Roughly 50 first, second and third grade students from the Lawrence Primary School at the Number 2 School have their work on display in the Community Gallery at the Long Island Children’s Museum in Garden City through Feb. 27.
Op-Ed
I was in Ryann’s Wines in East Meadow around the holidays, standing at the checkout, when a fellow customer, a man in his 70s, called out to a 20-something employee from across the store.
The days of rummaging through your car’s glove compartment for loose change while approaching the Atlantic Beach Bridge toll booth could be coming to an end in the near future.
HAFTR High School students on the Chesed Committee led by Rabbi Gary Slochowsky with committee heads Zachary Gellman and Sofia Goldschlag, organized a Chesed project to give back to the community on Purim.
Randi Kreiss
I admired Gov. Mario Cuomo so much that I actually bought an old CD of his speeches some years ago, and I actually listened to them. So I am educated in the successes and rhetorical and political skills of the Cuomo boys.
There will not be large gatherings of people eating, drinking and talking together this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, yet however different the 25th annual Shabbat Across America and Canada looks the event’s mission remains the same – to connect Jews across North America.
The second of two stories examining student mental health. When the 2019-20 school year ended last June amid a still-spreading coronavirus pandemic, school counselors were well aware that the previous four months had been unlike any that schoolchildren — or their parents — had ever experienced.
The Hewlett-Woodmere Alumni Association is now accepting nominations for its Hall of Fame, which recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding alumni in the areas of professional achievement and community service.
Editorial
The coronavirus pandemic reached Long Island a year ago next week, at first bringing a handful of cases before it dug in and exploded, wreaking havoc.
Nassau police report that a water main break has closed off Sheridan Boulevard at Nassau Avenue in Inwood as of 5:30 a.m. on Monday.
Lifelong Five Towner William W. Hewlett was considered by those who knew him to be a generous man who was loved by many people. The Woodmere resident Hewlett died on Jan. 31 from Covid-19 …
Obituary
Five Towns native Dr. George Elkowitz was a devoted family man who always took the time to be active in veteran’s affairs. The longtime Woodmere and Lawrence resident and United States Army veteran Elkowitz died on Jan. 20 in upstate Rye Brook from natural causes. He was 89.