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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program has named Woodland Middle School in the East Meadow Union Free School District a “Mix It Up Model School” for its exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among its students and throughout its campus during the 2010-2011 school year. Woodland Middle School is one of only 52 schools from across the country to receive this honor.
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6/16/11
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The unofficial kickoff to summer fun begins with a trip to Jones Beach this Memorial Day weekend to watch some amazing aerial maneuvers at the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show.
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Karen Bloom
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5/26/11
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To the Editor:
In Al D’Amato’s anti-union, anti-collective bargaining rant (“The leadership in middle America should make us proud” March 3-9), he wonders, regarding the Wisconsin …
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3/9/11
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I believe it was the great Mark Twain who said, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
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Al D'Amato
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3/3/11
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A group of local dentists volunteered last week to help get kids on their way to building healthy teeth.
Seventy-five dentists from the Nassau County Dental Society, with the help of …
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by Mike Caputo
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2/9/11
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A suspect, already accused of one November bank robbery in East Meadow, was arrested again this week for allegedly committing two others in the area. According to Nassau County police, Barry …
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1/19/11
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Whether it was in front of Congress or at a town hall in Montana, President Obama assured the American people that Obama-Care would cut medical costs and make it possible for everyone to have health insurance.
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by Al D'Amato
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12/9/10
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When you’re a member of a union, your monthly dues are taken directly from your paycheck. In 2009 the United Federation of Teachers, representing teachers in New York, took $47.27 bi-monthly from each paycheck. Ever wonder how your union money is spent?
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Al D'Amato
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11/25/10
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I remember a hallway full of sunlight that streamed through floor-to-ceiling windows. Off to one side were tables and chairs for 3- and 4-year-olds. Miniature wooden tea sets from Russia, hand-painted in brilliant colors, were set neatly atop each table. At the end of the hall, I entered a playroom with rainforest murals covering the walls.
This, I thought, is the Evil Empire?
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Scott Brinton
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9/22/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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