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A good portion of last week’s news cycle focused on the rise of school bullies. Tragically, two young girls, including a Suffolk County teen, took their own lives after being pushed to the edge by bullies. more
The New York Theatre Ballet brings its version of two classic ballets, Carnival of the Animals and Sleeping Beauty, to Tilles Center, Sunday, May 2, at 2 p.m. The concert hall will be transformed … more
Robert L. (Bob) Sympson is a tree hugger in every sense of the word. He is an untiring advocate of trees, planting them, studying them, educating the community about them. It’s no wonder that he has been named the recipient of the Arbor Day Foundation’s 2010 Lawrence Enersen Award for his lifelong conservation efforts. more
They line up every day inside an off-white office resembling a trailer across the street from the Long Beach Medical Center: two neat rows of average-looking people, waiting patiently, as if they are there to buy a cup of coffee from the local deli. But they are there to save their lives. more
A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are. more
Lynbrook Chief of Police Joseph Neve, 57, has been suspended without pay for two weeks from the Lynbrook Police Department by Mayor Brian Curran, who cited “behavior unbecoming to a police officer” as the reason for the suspension. more
“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the … more
Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing. more
The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently. Then, snap! more
One striking tradition that is widely observed by Jews at their Passover Seders involves the afikomen, a piece of matzah broken off near the beginning of the evening and eaten by participants “for dessert” after the meal. more
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