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Welcome to the holiday season, the season of light, the season of goodwill. The season of giving. more

12/10/15

After Sandy, progress, but we’re not fully restored

Hurricane Sandy was special –– in a wicked sort of way. Like no other storm since the Long Island Express of 1938 . . . more

10/22/15

Barbara Byrne received a proclamation from Assemblyman Dave McDonough with husband, John Byrne, at the Sept. 8 North Merrick School District Board of Education meeting upon her retirement.

N. Merrick School District honors retiree, veteran

Before Barbara Byrne even reached the North Merrick Board of Education room, she accepted congratulatory hugs from supporters and life-long friends on her retirement. Once she settled in her seat, with her husband, John Byrne, by her side, she quietly waited for the meeting to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Byrne worked for the North Merrick School District for 31 years as a lunch monitor and special-education aide at Old Mill Road Elementary School. Working with children was always a fun, exciting experience, she said. more

By Stephany Reyes | 9/16/15

A survivor’s story: Part 2

After World War II, Walter Schacherl returned to Palestine, where he had lived with his older brother before the war. Hope for a Jewish homeland marked life there, but so did strife. more

By Brian Racow | 8/5/15

Meyer Rothstein, who served on Okinawa Island during World War II, is turning 100 years old. He was joined by his wife of seven decades, Dorothy.

Merrick World War II hero turning 100

In the trying days after American Army and Marine forces stormed Okinawa Island on April 1, 1945, food was scarce. Merokean Meyer Rothstein, who fought with the Army at Okinawa and who turns 100 this month, foraged for wild garlic, whose shoots form tiny purple flowers that resemble sunbursts. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/5/15

At home in Merrick, Walter Schacherl, right, and his wife, Ryfka, display photographs of Walter competing in the 1950 Maccabiah Games, an international Olympics-style competition in Israel. It was the first Maccabiah Games after Israel’s founding. Walter won two gold, one silver and one bronze medal in gymnastics, including the gold for best all-around performance.

A survivor’s story

Walter Schacherl made battlefield maps that top Allied generals used to plan the lines of attack against Germany and Italy in World War II. Naturally, his work was top secret. more

By Brian Racow | 7/24/15

Erasing racism in South Carolina, and on L.I.

On July 10, South Carolina finally decided to join the Union for good when it removed the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds in Columbia, its capital. more

7/15/15

Len Kirsch was instrumental in the creation of the North Merrick Public Library in 1964 and received its first library card. He lived in the Merricks and worked in public relations for decades. At right, his wife, Ruth.

Len Kirsch, library founder, dies at 88

Longtime Merrick resident Len Kirsch, whose intellectual curiosity, public messaging savvy and can-do attitude made him the ideal person to head the citizens’ committee that advocated for the North Merrick Public Library’s founding in the mid-1960s, died last month after a lengthy illness. He was 88. more

By Brian Racow | 3/25/15

Unforgettable words that saved a revolution

Victory or death. On the freezing-cold night of Dec. 25, 1776, George Washington crossed the ice-choked Delaware River with those code words assigned to each soldier. more

2/5/15

The U.S. Maritime Administration and Coast Guard held a public hearing about Port Ambrose, a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach, last Wednesday night in a ballroom at the Hilton New York JFK Airport in Jamaica, Queens. Port Ambrose opponents, who have assembled into a “No LNG Coalition,” conducted a press conference immediately before the hearing, drawing a few dozen people into a small hotel meeting room feet away from the ballroom.

Most at Port Ambrose hearing slam plan

One after another, for four hours, speakers at a hearing last Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens lined up to decry a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach. more

By Brian Racow | 1/14/15

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