Ron Walsh, a high-ranking veteran Nassau County police officer, was to be sworn in Friday as Long Beach’s new top cop after a farewell ceremony at Nassau police headquarters.
Instead, …
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By James Bernstein
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1/14/21
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Wednesday marked the 108th anniversary of Chestnut Street School in West Hempstead. This year, its anniversary will consist of a modest, yet meaningful Meneely Bell Tolling on Friday at the 2:45 p.m. …
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1/14/21
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Karen Brohm, president of the West Hempstead School District Board of Education, was among the guest speakers on a podcast last month presented by Learning Revolution, a worldwide community exploring …
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By Nakeem Grant
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1/14/21
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Maurice W. Downing Primary School’s first-grade students in Kim Piccola, Katie Smyth, and Amanda Correia and Jennifer Eisenberg’s class wrote festive letters to their pen pals in the …
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1/14/21
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Voters in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties recently casted votes to elect or re-elect water commissioners in all Long Island commissioner-run water districts. Cathedral Gardens Water District …
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1/14/21
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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran must quarantine for 10 days because of a recent exposure to a person who had tested positive for Covid-19.
Curran's press office reported Thursday that the …
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1/14/21
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The Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead will host its next no-contact curbside food drive to collect the most needed items for guests of the soup kitchen.
Call (516) 732-6009 with …
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1/11/21
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Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, spiritual leader of the Young Israel of West Hempstead, died on Friday at the age of 74.
The cause was not disclosed.
Kelemer studied at Mir Yerushalayim in Brooklyn, and …
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By Nakeem Grant and Ed Weintrob
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1/10/21
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A lifelong devotee of theater, film and ballet, Malvernite Charles Messinger shared that passion with hundreds of students during nearly three decades as Malverne High School’s musical …
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By Nakeem Grant
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1/7/21
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West Hempstead native Jacob Cooper was just 3 years old when he found himself gasping for air and fighting for his life. During a trip to the park with his parents, he was climbing the ladder of a …
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By Nakeem Grant
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1/7/21
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