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North Shore High School students flooded the outer perimeter of the school today to participate in the National School Walkout event.

North Shore students remember Parkland shooting victims, walk out to protest gun violence

As expected, hundreds of students from across Nassau County took part in Wednesday’s planned National School Walkout to remember the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School a month ago and to call for stricter gun controls, according to student activists and educators. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/14/18

Wantagh High School students expressed their solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during Wednesday's walkout. The event was part of a national walkout that took place at 10 a.m.

Nassau students remember Parkland shooting victims, walk out to protest gun violence

As expected, hundreds of students from across Nassau County took part in Wednesday’s planned National School Walkout to remember the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School a month ago and to call for stricter gun controls, according to student activists and educators. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/13/18

Strong women will not be silenced

When acclaimed poet and memoirist Maya Angelou described the makings of a great woman in her 1995 poem “Phenomenal Woman,” she wrote of a female spirit that . . . more

3/2/18

An estimated 200,000 women, men and children took to the streets of New York City for the 2018 Women's March, held Jan. 20, one year after President Trump was inaugurated.

Hundreds from Nassau take part in NYC Women's March

An estimated 200,000 men, women and children took to the streets of Manhattan for the second Women’s March, held on the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, Melissa Koenig and Nakeem Grant | 1/21/18

Carmen Rivera, a Salisbury/East Meadow Senior Center resident, often reminisces about her time in the military with friends and family.

A Puerto Rican in Germany

Carmen Rivera delicately placed her official military photo taken on Nov. 6, 1972 in her palm. This month marks 45 years since Rivera joined the U.S. Army. “Wasn’t I pretty?” she laughed. more

By Stephany Reyes | 11/15/17

Public corruption depends on civic apathy

People like to think the best of others, including elected and appointed officials at all levels, from your local village to the high hills of Albany or D.C. Our confidence is almost always affirmed, because most local public servants are . . . more

9/22/17

Author Fiona Davis signed books for the audience during a special meet-the-author event on July 18.

Novelist reimagines life in famed N.Y. women's hotel

When New York City-based author Fiona Davis visited a renovated condominium in the famed Barbizon 63 building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2005 during an apartment search, she uncovered a history not explored since Sylvia Plath did so in her 1963 semi-autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar,” which details the life of a young woman who lives at the Barbizon in the 1950s while interning for “Mademoiselle” magazine. more

By Stephany Reyes | 8/9/17

Stephanie Rossetti, who was the first female grand marshal in East Meadow’s Memorial Day Parade history, received a citation from the Town of Hempstead for her service.

Remembering South Korea

Second in a two-part series about East Meadow’s women veterans. When Stephanie Rossetti was stationed at Command Post Tango, a U.S. military base in South Korea, in August 1976, a somber feeling lingered throughout the base after news spread two U.S. soldiers had been murdered by North Korean soldiers. more

By Stephany Reyes | 7/13/17

The governor takes aim at the gender pay gap

Over the past several decades, women have made tremendous strides in the workforce. Working mothers are now the single or primary source of income in 40 percent of . . . more

4/20/17

Why we still need Women’s History Month

In late 1916, Brooklyn’s Inez Milholland Boissevain, a prominent New York attorney and suffragist, was traveling the country, demanding equal rights for women, including the right to vote. By the time she reached the West Coast . . . more

3/9/17