Elmont’s Jaquan Smith wasn’t the only bolt of lighting in the area last Thursday afternoon, but his game-opening 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown wasn’t enough for the Spartans to avenge last year’s Conference II first-round playoff loss to Wantagh.
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Tony Bellissimo
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9/16/10
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Commemorate the responders involved with the tragic events of Sept. 11 at a special fundraiser honoring the late FDNY firefighter Vincent Albanese, among other events this weekend.
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9/10/10
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Students of Franklin Square schools, your superintendent has missed you. Superintendent Patrick Manley couldn't wait for the hallways of his schools to be filled with familiar, smiling faces. “A school can be a lonely place in the summertime,” he said.
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Tom Jordan
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9/8/10
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The Board of Education of the Elmont Union Free School District has appointed Andrew Weisman principal of Elmont’s Covert Avenue School.
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9/8/10
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Parents, residents and students stepped into the ring with their gloves off to demand information about the Alternative Special Education program at the Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Aug. 31.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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9/8/10
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Youth and depth will be the theme for Hofstra men’s soccer in 2010 as the Pride graduated five starters, including three All-Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) performers, from last year’s 8-7-2 team.
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Tony Bellissimo
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9/8/10
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There are two ways to write this story: glass half full, glass half empty. I believe I’ll take a sip from each in describing the recent reunion cruise of Lawrence High School’s class of 1964.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/3/10
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The start of the Nassau County football season is less than a week away.
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Tony Bellissimo
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9/2/10
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Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York.
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8/5/10
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After a one-year hiatus due to financial reasons, the Empire State Games made a triumphant return this summer with more than 4,500 athletes competing in the 32nd edition, held July 21-25 at various sites throughout Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Amherst.
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Tony Bellissimo
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8/4/10
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