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Santino Sarrica, a 17-year resident of Franklin Square and the president of Sarrica Insurance Group, speaking about his vision for the Chamber of Commerce this year after being sworn in.
Chamber of Commerce installs new board
Franklin Square businesses gathered at the Chamber of Commerce’s first meeting of 2024 on Jan. 10 to see the organization’s new president and board sworn in.  more
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Team Innovo from Hewlett competes at Sewanhaka High School on Jan. 14 in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Tech Challenge Qualifier. Student robotics teams from across Long Island explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts during the competition.
Students from across Long Island compete in tech competition
Student robotics teams from across Long Island gathered at Sewanhaka High School to compete in a For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Tech Challenge Qualifier last weekend. more
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Joyce Becher, of Franklin Square, and Bonnie Atkins, of Franklin Square, look up at the solar eclipse on April 8 in wonder.
Solar eclipse casts a shadow on a beautiful afternoon
Neighbors gathered at the Franklin Square Public Library to witness the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse on Long Island on April 8. more
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Crews waited to head out in Oceanside.
Long Island rebuilding in Sandy's wake
The superstorm called Hurricane Sandy will surely go down as one of the U.S.’s most costly and crippling storms, ripping a $20 billion swath of destruction up the Eastern Seaboard, and Long Island’s South Shore was front and center amid the tumult as Sandy’s northern end lashed communities from Bellmore to Valley Stream and from Long Beach to Rockville Centre. Now, after the flooding and the fires, the anxiety and fear, the South Shore must slowly rebuild, one home, one school, one business at a time. more
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Mary Malloy
Pretty in ink
I’ve got a pretty new ankle bracelet. It depicts my four children, with two blue hearts and two pink hearts representing two boys and two girls, and two smaller, dangling blue hearts for my … more
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Jackie Davis, a daughter of residents at 1888 Foster Meadow Lane, saw water rise behind the apartment building last Friday.
Seniors displaced after flood
Residents of 1888 Foster Meadow Lane have been left to wonder when they will be able to return to their homes after flooding last Friday afternoon caused them to evacuate. more
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Suffolk County Presiding Officer Kevin McCaffrey, far left, welcomes the new executive officers of the Long Island Builders Institute. They include, from left, Vince Calvosa, Martin Deffling, Anthony Bartone, Paolo Pironi of Franklin Square, Ken Abrami and Rob Cartelli.
Pironi named to Long Island Builders board
Paolo Pironi of Pironi Homes in Franklin Square has been named the second vice president of the Long Island Builders Institute executive board during a recent ceremony in Ronkonkoma. more
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Elizabeth Forbes, of Elmont, arguing against the Elmont Memorial Library board’s decision to discontinue hosting early voting after electioneering during early voting before last fall’s election caused unsafe conditions in the parking lot. The library’s role as an early voting location helps seniors and others participate in the democratic process, Forbes said at the board’s meeting on Jan. 25.
Elmont library discontinues early voting
Community members seldom attend Elmont Memorial Library board meetings, but a unanimous vote to discontinue early voting at the facility by the library board sparked outrage at the meeting on Jan. 25, as 40 people spoke out against the decision. more
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Members of Elmont Memorial High School’s Model United Nations program, program founder Lee Marcus, program adviser Nkenge Gilliam, were welcomed to the state’s capitol in Albany by state Sen. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages to commemorate the program’s accomplishments.
Elmont High Model UN travels to state capitol
Elmont Memorial High School's United Nations program visited the state capitol to celebrate the 45gth anniversary of the program. more
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The South Shore’s wetlands are covered in debris that washed up during Hurricane Sandy. Above, the shoreline in Merrick.
Restoring the South Shore's Sandy-ravaged wetlands
Like no other storm since the “Long Island Express” of 1938, Hurricane Sandy ripped apart Long Island’s South Shore, lifting docks off their moorings and depositing them miles away, tearing hot tubs from backyard decks and dumping them in the canals that line the coast, and sending boats big and small hurtling out to sea. more
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