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Long Beach residents Ron and Debbie Gialanze said that their insurance company denied their claims because of a loophole that is preventing many residents from rebuilding their homes.

Ron and Debbie Gialanze owned a ranch-style home on East Pine Street for 26 years, and raised two children there. When they finished paying the mortgage, they decided to continue paying for flood … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 8/15/13

Stuart, left, and Cliff Richner have agreed to acquire L&M Publications, which produces the Freeport-Baldwin Leader, Merrick Life, Bellmore Life and Wantagh-Seaford Citizen.

Richner Communications to acquire L&M Publications

Publishers Clifford and Stuart Richner announced July 10 that Richner Communications has agreed to acquire L&M Publications, a Long Island weekly newspaper group that includes the Merrick Life, Bellmore Life, Freeport-Baldwin Leader and the Wantagh-Seaford Citizen. Both Richner Communications and L&M are privately held companies, and terms of the sale were not announced. The sale is expected to close this quarter. more

By Scott Brinton | 7/12/13

Tales of an eager garbage picker (condoms excepted)

I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/4/13

Volunteer your time to restoring our wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. more

2/28/13

Garbage collected during Op-SPLASH 22 last year.

Volunteer your time to restoring the South Shore's wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. more

2/26/13

A crew of Herald Community Newspaper executives, editors and reporters recently took the Riverhead Foundation’s “seal tour” in the waters off Jones Beach. They were joined by a handful of family members.

Herald staffers search for South Shore harbor seals

Fourteen Herald Community Newspaper executives, editors and reporters bundled up in heavy coats and woolen hats and boarded the Capt. Lou VII in Freeport to take a two-hour tour of the waterways south of the village in search of harbor seals last Friday. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/26/13

Long Beach's Molly Martin, right, worked around Freeport's Sydney Harris during last Friday's Nassau Class AA first-round playoff game.

Shooting woes cost Long Beach

Freeport eliminated Long Beach from the Nassau Class AA girls’ basketball playoffs for a second straight season, winning a turnover-marred 37-23 opening-round matchup last Friday at Long Beach Middle School. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 2/19/13

Pro boxer Seanie Monaghan, right, defeated Romaro Johnson and won the WBC light heavyweight title at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom in June.

Monaghan to defend WBC title

If pro boxer Seanie Monaghan is looking a little more muscular these days, it’s not because he’s significantly changed his diet. “I still eat pizza at Gino’s,” Monaghan said. “But … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 10/17/12

Linda Leonard, executive director of the Long Island Crisis Center in Bellmore, said she worries that her agency could lose its 24-hour, seven-day-a-week suicide-prevention hotline if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano eliminates funding for the private, nonprofit agency.

Nassau’s social-service network in crisis

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week. more

By Scott Brinton | 6/9/12

The ZigZag Quartet performs at Hofstra on Saturday.

'Zigging' through a treasury of music with the ZigZag Quartet this weekend

Two young, dynamic chamber ensembles grace local stages this Mother's Day weekend. The outdoors also beckons, with a Woodland Widlflowers Walk at Mu†tontown Preserve on Sunday. more

5/9/12

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