Lawrence slams Plainedge; Lynbrook edges Hewlett. Read about both games here now. more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

Monday, Nov. 9, marked the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass,” which many historians consider the beginning of the Holocaust. In conjunction with that anniversary, hundreds of students from Rambam Mesivta for Boys and Shalhevet High School for Girls commemorated Kristallnacht’s significance by protesting the German government’s refusal to allow the U.S. to deport Jakiw Palij, a known Nazi war criminal whose U.S. citizenship has been revoked, back to Germany. more

President of the Lawrence School Board, Murray Forman, has been named in a U.S. Justice Department complaint that accuses him and two other men of accepting a $50-million kickback from a pharmaceutical vendor that serves nursing homes throughout the country. more

The Hewlett High School girls varsity volleyball team turned their recent home match against Cold Spring Harbor into a breast cancer awareness rally. more

Hewlett High School has the most Siemens semifinalists in the country for the second year in a row with 16 students being honored in this year’s competition. more

Parents and community members were enthusiastic and pleased with the latest developments in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District's $17-million improvement project at Woodmere Middle School. more

I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010. more

The Lawrence Board of Education approved a measure at its Oct. 13 meeting that authorized Goodman-Marks Associates to appraise the Number Six School property. more

The HAFTR Hawks and Frisch Cougars played a charity basketball game at MSG to help raise nearly $20,000 to benefit Migdal Ohr, Israel's largest orphanage. more