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Former Lawrence High School principal Edwin Krawitz, who also served as the general studies director for the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), died on Oct. 17. He was 91. Four months ago, Krawitz was diagnosed with melanoma. more

By Diana Colapietro | 11/9/16

Miriam Sharin, 89

An educator in the truest sense of the word, Miriam Sharin squeezed every ounce of learning from the schools she attended in her native Brownsville section of Brooklyn by never missing a day, taught her herself piano by ear, and was a nursery school teacher who went on to teach folk dancing. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/5/16

Residents raise concerns with apartment management

Parking, heating, infestation of animals, plumbing and communication problems were some of the problems that 30 residents of the Bayview Gardens apartment complex on Bayview Ave. between Sheridan Boulevard and St. George Place in Inwood spoke about at a meeting at a private home, also in Inwood on Sept. 21. more

By Diana Colapietro | 9/28/16

Albert D’Agostino administered the oath of office to Lawrence Board of Education Vice President Asher Mansdorf at the July 12 meeting. Trustee Heshy Blachorsky is in the center.

Lawrence reorganizes for a new school year

Though students and teachers will not return to classrooms until September, the Lawrence School District got a jump on a new school year at the July 12 Board of Education meeting at the middle school by officially appointing Christine Moore as principal of the Lawrence Primary School at the Number Two School — first and second grade — and Christian Paulino as an assistant principal at the high school. more

By Jeff Bessen | 7/27/16

During the four-day Long summer sidewalk sale, the streets along Central Avenue will be humming with shoppers hunting for bargains.

Creating sizzle in the summer

The Cedarhurst Business Improvement District’s Summer Sidewalk Sale is a revenue generator that attracts upward of 10,000 people to the village over four days, and organizers hope that in its 28th year, it will once again be a shopping and commercial bonanza for patrons and merchants alike. more

7/13/16

Miriam Bradman and her mother, Pola Bradman, at the José Martí International Airport in Cuba in 2008.

A Woodmere resident returns to Cuba

‘Hola y adios’, hello and goodbye. We are off to Cuba on a people-to-people visa to revisit my birthplace. Taking my husband and three grown kids there is a dream come true. I was born in Havana in 1961 and left with my parents a year later as refugees. more

By Miriam Bradman Abrahams | 6/29/16

Joshua Gold will be the new principal of HAFTR Middle School. He is with from left Julia Fox, Sophia Green and Shira Dinowitz.

New principal chosen for HAFTR Middle School

Joshua Gold will succeed Dr. Rochelle Brand as principal of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) Middle School effective July 1. more

6/9/16

The Lawrence Woodmere Academy Tigers baseball team won the Private Schools Athletic Association title defeating Grace Church 6-5 on May 25.

Lawrence Woodmere Academy captures PSAA baseball crown

Karim Shabazz played basketball at Lawrence Woodmere Academy a few years before his current players on the Tigers baseball team were born, but that doesn’t mean he forgot what high school athletics is all about. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/1/16

Nassau County has sent treated sewage into Reynolds Channel and the Western Bays since the late 1940s. A new county plan to divert the effluent to an ocean outfall pipe would end the practice, which would improve water quality in the bays, environmental experts say. Above, a view of the bays from the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick. Photo by Scott Brinton/Herald

County's pipe dream moving forward

Nassau County is looking to divert tens of millions of gallons of treated sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to the ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek plant on the … more

By Scott Brinton, Nick Ciccone, Andrew Hackmack and Laura Schofer | 5/20/16

Terence M. Murdock was arrested in Lawrence last Sunday for allegedly driving while intoxicated and with a child in the vehicle.

Brooklyn man arrested for DWI in Lawrence

A 4th Precinct police officer saw a gray Chrysler stop abruptly when exiting the Dunkin’ Donuts on Burnside Avenue in Lawrence at 1:45 p.m. last Sunday. A woman passenger, 38, then got out of the car along with a young girl who was sitting in the back seat, police said. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/9/16

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