On clear summer evenings, I sit on the lawn of William L. Buck Elementary School in Valley Stream — a five-minute walk from my house — with a telescope I was given four years ago at my bat mitzvah.
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By Ilana Greenberg
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9/21/23
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The North Bellmore School District has long partnered with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to collect toys for natural disaster relief. This year, Saw Mill Road Elementary School's SADD Club ran the drive, and representatives from the charity came to meet with students, and collect the toys to be driven to southwest Florida.
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By Jordan Vallone
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12/15/22
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Memorial Day events will take on new urgency this year as a kind of collective anti-insurrection rally.
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5/27/21
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As difficult as the coronavirus pandemic has been for all of us, our children were the least equipped to handle the sudden disruption of their daily lives and routines. Ripped from in-school learning . . .
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By Steve Rhoads
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3/25/21
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Listening to Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords speak, you’re quickly overcome by the urge to cry. The former congresswoman was once known for her incisive rhetoric, delivered with a magnetic smile. Then . . .
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12/17/20
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North Bellmore resident Carsyn Volpe spent Halloween the way no 11-year-old should.
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By Alyssa Seidman
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11/23/20
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A new installation at Park Avenue Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District is shining a light during the dark days of the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, a rainbow rock garden was …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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11/13/20
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A group of Chatterton Elementary School parents wanted to make sure local veterans didn’t go unnoticed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Since large gatherings, such as assemblies and observance …
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11/12/20
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Members of the Chatterton Elementary School community joined district administrators and Board of Education trustees there on Tuesday to get an inside look at the campus’ first building …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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10/8/20
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After schools across the nation shifted their lesson plans online amid the coronavirus pandemic, students, teachers and parents were forced to adapt to the new normal, too. Although much attention …
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By Justin Dynia
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7/8/20
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