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The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/20/12
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When the 26 students in Calhoun High School’s leadership class were batting around ideas for a community service project in November, they didn’t debate their cause –– they wanted to do something, anything, to aid those whose homes had been ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.
And when they went looking for possible projects, they thought immediately of Long Beach, which took the brunt of the storm, suffering an estimated $250 million in damage.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/19/12
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The stunning fall from grace of CIA Director David Petraeus surprised me, in a day and age when nothing surprises me.
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11/23/12
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Amid all the complaints about what did not get done well before, during and after the storm, we shouldn’t forget to thank those who did so much good while the winds raged, and have in the days since.
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11/23/12
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I always thought it was cliché to say, “I’ve never seen anything like it,” but in the aftermath of Sandy, I can honestly say that, in my lifetime, I’ve never seen anything like it.
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11/15/12
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April 15-21 is National Volunteer Week, and we want to recognize a special group of volunteers — firefighters.
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4/19/12
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“Saddened,” “upset” and “disappointed” were among the many dispirited words people used to describe Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to veto a bill that would …
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Lee Landor
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1/11/12
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Crossroads Farm at Grossmann’s, a project of the Nassau Land Trust, in Malverne,officially opened its doors to the public on April 30 and has been selling springbedding plants, vegetable …
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7/20/11
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“Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us,” President Bill Clinton once said.
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4/7/11
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When North Bellmorite Richard Schary retired from teaching in the New York City schools in the 1990s, he said he wanted to commit his time to bettering his community. On Sunday, Schary will be …
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By Deirdre Krasula
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2/2/11
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