Hundreds of people gathered at the Alva T. Stanforth Sports Complex near Elmont Library on Saturday to kick off the Elmont/Belmont Day Parade, marking the unofficial start of summer and the lead-up … more

Tears of joy were streaming down the eyes of teachers from the Baldwin School District as they were honored by their former and current students at the In Recognition of Excellence … more

Baldwin Superintendent Dr. Shari L. Camhi has been recognized by the National School Public Relations Association as a 2016 Superintendent to Watch. The award highlights 25 new superintendents across … more

Less than three years after Nassau BOCES’s regional high school in Syosset announced that it would bring concentrated studies in science, technology, engineering and math to students in Nassau and Suffolk counties, the program announced in late April that it would cease operations due to lack of funding and enrollment. more

I grew up in Yaphank, a 14-square-mile hamlet in Suffolk County, virtually in the middle of Long Island. (The community to the north is, in fact, called Middle Island.) I remember . . . more

In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent. more

Molloy College and the Baldwin School District are joining forces in a unique partnership that will create a “media incubator” in the former Shubert Elementary School, the college and the … more

This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce … more

From Nassau County leaders to East Meadow residents, community members have expressed concerns about safety and hopes for global peace in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut last … more

The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more