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High school seniors all over the Herald’s coverage area are graduating. Tassels are moved, mortarboards are launched into the air and tears are shed by fellow grads, teachers, friends and relatives. more
“As we reach this critical time in our lives, we hold in our hands the opportunity to do something amazing,” Long Beach High School valedictorian Jonathan Klus told his fellow graduates last … more
Long Beach High School officials say that the percentage of students in the 2007-08 freshman class who graduated in 2011 was larger than in previous years. more
As 1984 came to a close, it turned out that George Orwell’s Big Brother had not taken over the nation. more
Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands. more
As has been the case for decades, there are more career opportunities for those with college degrees than those without. The Great Recession of 2007-09 proved that point. While the unemployment rate for those without university degrees soared into the double digits, it remained below 5 percent — full employment — for those with a college education, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. more
Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students from Professor Scott Brinton’s Current Issues in Science Reporting class recently participated in and are reporting on an Envirothon that took place in the woodlands around the Meadowbrook Parkway in North Merrick, Roosevelt and Freeport on April 30. Brinton, of Merrick, is a senior editor and op-ed columnist with Herald Community Newspapers. The Nassau County Unprotected Woodlands Taskforce, headed by county Legislators David Denenberg and Norma Gonsalves, organized the event. more
On Aug. 30, while most Long Beach students were out with their parents buying new clothes and supplies for the coming school year, students at the Harriet Eisman Community School, an alternative high school, were receiving their diplomas at a graduation ceremony at the Long Beach Library. more
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