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Fair 'Drug dealer' doctor convicted on 26 opioid, two overdose death charges
Dr. Michael Belfiore, a Merrick physician charged with writing hundreds of opioid prescriptions for profit and causing the deaths of two South Shore men was found guilty on all 28 charges late Wednesday afternoon, after a five-week trial.
‘Yentl’ writer Leah Napolin dies at 83
Leah Napolin, whose adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” found fame on the Broadway stage, died in her Sea Cliff home last Sunday after a long battle with breast …
Fashion is a family affair for close-knit Gold Coast consigners
Gabrielle Fumai swears she was a tomboy growing up, but her third-grade yearbook picture suggests otherwise. “I remember sitting with my teacher, and she was just begging me to come up with …
North Shore Kiwanis celebrates a golden age
Planting ‘seeds of giving’ in the community for 50 years and counting
When Sea Cliff resident Doug Barnaby, a 45-year Kiwanian, describes what it’s like to attend one of the meetings of the North Shore Kiwanis Club, his response is surprising. “It’s almost like a …
Glen Head students hold still in wax museum
HERALD SCHOOLS
Glen Head parents were saved a trip to Madame Tussauds’ last week when third grade classes put on their own wax museum. The annual, interdisciplinary study gives children the opportunity to embody …
Marcellino secures audit for NYAW in state Senate
A bill was passed in the Senate overwhelmingly 62-0, which, if passed in the Assembly, would require an independent audit of private water companies before and after rate changes are approved by the …
Bots, brains and buds: North Shore High School's nationally ranked robotics team
Before they were thrust into three weeks’ worth of testing, 34 members of North Shore High School’s robotics team, RoboGym, kept their brains busy with visions of robots. Late last month, the …
Former FBI field director from Sea Cliff takes charge of Suffolk P.D.
Geraldine Hart, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, still remembers her first time in Quantico, Va. She visited the bureau’s training facility with her fifth-grade class on a trip to Washington. Her eyes …
Sea Cliff residents voice grievances loud at village meeting
The Village of Sea Cliff’s monthly meeting on Monday escalated into a war of words between residents and trustees during public comment. After board members updated attendants on the work of …
HERALD SCHOOLS
North Shore counselors share results of Bach Harrison survey
Following its budget hearing, the North Shore School District Board of Education was visited by social worker Reisa Berg and Linda Binon, the director of the high school’s counseling department. …
Backup cameras required nationwide
Greg Gulbransen’s tragedy, the death of his 2-year-old son, Cameron, on Oct. 19, 2002, when Gulbransen accidentally backed over him in his car, could have destroyed his life. Carrying his favorite …
Health
Help wanted: Demand for nurses growing as baby boomers retire, age
In South Nassau Communities Hospital’s geriatrics wing on a recent Friday, the nurses’ station in the center of the ward was a swirl of activity at midday.Registered nurse Kathryn …
Scott Brinton
Journalism might be bruised, but it lives
I was hurrying on Broad Street in Philadelphia on April 22, headed to Temple University, when I happened upon a terrifying sight.
Randi Kreiss
Under the volcano in Hawaii and Washington
Kilauea is blowing her top. These last weeks we have witnessed, from afar, a pyrotechnic extravaganza on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Alfonse D'Amato
On Iran, let past be prologue
In the fall of 1938, a defiant British member of Parliament named Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech denouncing the Munich Agreement recently negotiated by Europe’s leaders to appease Adolf Hitler . . .
John C. O'Connell
Reflections on a reunion
After a college class a very long while ago, I sat in the late morning drinking Guinness in an old pub on Grafton Street, in Dublin, with author Alec Reid, a close friend of Samuel Beckett . . .
HERALD NEIGHBORS
Seniors in Glen Head, Sea Cliff relive their yesteryears at prom
Local seniors dusted off their dancing shoes for the 11th annual Senior Citizen Prom, hosted by the North Shore High School Key Club. Older members of the community got a chance to dance alongside …