The East Meadow Kiwanis Club held its annual All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast in the East Meadow High School cafeteria last Sunday to raise money for the club’s college scholarships for East Meadow and W.T. Clarke High School seniors. more

The East Meadow Jewish Center’s third annual Purim With a Purpose was a success yet again, raising more than $3,300. The Sunday event was attended by nearly 300 people. more

The East Meadow Public Library’s third annual Adult Summer Reading Club is set to kick off on June 5. Nassau County library cardholders 21 and older are eligible to join, and will have the opportunity to attend book events and enjoy a party at the conclusion of the program. more

Most pundits agreed: Mitt Romney won the first of three presidential debates in 2012, held at the University of Denver on Oct. 3. President Obama, whose rhetorical skills were the stuff of political legend, appeared tired, and in the weeks after the debate, his poll numbers plummeted. more

Carlos Jonathon Alarcon and Jessica Francine Marcus, both East Meadow residents, celebrated Valentine’s Day by getting married at the wedding chapel in Hempstead’s Town Clerk Office. The … more

Nasrin Ahmad watched emotionally as results filtered in for the Hempstead town clerk election on Nov. 6, in which she received 52 percent of the vote to retain the position she had occupied for two months after being appointed by the town board. more

Scott Brinton, senior editor at Herald Community Newspapers and an adjunct journalism professor in the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication, was named to the inaugural class of the Press Club of Long Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame on Feb. 12. All winners of PCLI’s Outstanding Journalist Award, the group’s highest individual honor, were included in the first class of Hall of Fame inductees. Brinton received the accolade in 2006. more

Making good on Pope Benedict XVI’s promise to appoint three auxiliary bishops to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Pope Francis appointed Monsignor Andrzej Zglejszewski to the position on Feb. … more

Former Baldwin and Oceanside resident Devin Logan, a member of the U.S. Olympic team competing in Sochi, Russia, won a silver medal in the women's slopestyle skiing event early Tuesday morning. After … more

There are mixed feelings when it comes to Valentine’s Day, mostly because people feel that it’s a holiday that has to be spent with a significant other, or a “Hallmark” holiday that just … more