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The Nassau Library System offers a ‘Techmobile,’ which brings digital access, technology help and library services to patrons who might not otherwise have access to those services. It registered nearly 2 million digital checkouts last year — or more than 5,000 per day.
County libraries meet the future with 1.9 million digital checkouts
Read a book. Listen to a book. But don’t feel like you have to physically pick up the book. more
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer take a train from Grand Central Madison last month to celebrate the opening of the terminal.
Kathy Hochul orders more LIRR service beginning Monday
Essentially calling the opening of Grand Central Madison in New York's Upper East Side an ongoing process. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Sunday to not only add Long Island Rail Road trains to Brooklyn during peak hours, but also to lengthen cars on a number of trains that exceeded capacity over the last week. more
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The medical facility a great community needs
Things we don’t want in our backyards: incinerators, releasing toxic fumes in the air. Nightclubs, with late-night rooftop music. Prisons, with their high walls and guarded towers. more
Oceanside quarterback Charlie McKee won the Thorp Award last season, given to the top player in Nassau County.
Football camps kicked off Aug. 23
Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county started preparing for a new season Aug. 23. more
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Police officers from New York City, Nassau and Suffolk counties and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey stepped up to bat against police suicide at Baldwin Park on Sept. 26.
Strikeout Suicide game draws big crowd in Baldwin
In September 2019, New York City Police Department Detective Chris Panetta, 42, and his wife, Nassau County probation officer and college professor Michelle Panetta, 34, created Beyond the Badge NY, … more
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Edward Olvera, a 97-year-old Baldwin resident and World War II veteran, was honored by an intimate ceremony on Memorial Day May 25.
Wantagh pipe band honors Baldwin ‘hometown hero’
To mark Memorial Day, World War II veteran Edward Olvera, a Baldwin resident, was honored for his service to the country outside his home on May 25. John Stone, of the Wantagh American Legion Pipe … more
New York can learn a lot from South Korea
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to open beaches statewide, including Jones Beach, on Friday. It is a moment we have all eagerly awaited, a symbolic gesture signaling . . . more
The Wantagh Parkway bike trail from Cedar Creek County Park to Jones Beach State Park is one of a handful of such trails in Nassau County. Above, a cyclist on his way to Jones Beach.
Cycling the Wantagh Parkway trail, social distancing-style
Nassau County has fewer than 50 miles of bike trails, compared to New York City, which has 450, and Suffok County, which has 370. So Nassau residents have long had a hard time finding a place to ride … more
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Keep extending the Ocean Parkway bike trail
With most people confined to their homes by the coronavirus pandemic and itching to get out into open space, it becomes abundantly clear that Nassau County is lacking when it comes to bike trails. more
Baldwin teacher and Wantagh resident Chris Fahey illustrated a poster to say thank you to the essential workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Baldwin teacher thanks essential workers with illustration
Baldwin teacher Chris Fahey found a way to thank those members of the workforce who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic every day. “There was nothing I could really do, being … more
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