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Aman Islam, 16, right, is a student at Valley Stream Central High School who has been advocating for gun safety since the Parkland shooting. He spoke on Jan. 26 at the “More Than a Moment” gun safety discussion at Oceanside Library.
Sen. Todd Kaminsky hosts gun safety forum at Oceanside Library
With Feb. 14 drawing near and marking the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. that left 17 dead, the nation’s legislators, students, parents and activists continue to fight for stricter gun policies. In New York, proposed gun reform laws could be passed in Albany as soon as this week, according to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky. more
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Lt. Joseph Pangaro, CPM
Q: What should my school district be doing about school security and what can I do as a parent to make sure they are doing the right things?
A: When I served as a police lieutenant in charge of helping the schools in my community, I had to get the message through to everyone in the district that the most dangerous thing they could … more
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Oceanside High School will play host to a few Thanksgiving events over the next week, including the 28th annual Best Buddies Thanksgiving Feast.
Thanksgiving events on tap in Oceanside
There will be plenty to be thankful for in Oceanside this holiday season as many Thanksgiving events are scheduled. more
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Volunteers set up an altar with 11 candles for the 11 lives lost in the shooting.
Oceanside hosts vigil after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
In the wake of the mass shooting that left 11 dead at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, hundreds of local residents gathered for a candlelight vigil at the Oceanside Veterans Triangle on Oct. 30. more
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Kathleen Rice
In the 4th Congressional District, send Rice back to Washington
To slash through the sea of partisanship that now engulfs Congress, strong proponents of bipartisanship and people of action are needed. more
Oceanside, Island Park rabbis react to synagogue shooting
In the wake of a mass shooting in which 11 died at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, hundreds of local residents gathered for a vigil at the Oceanside Veterans Triangle on Long Beach Road on Tuesday. more
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Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.
Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more
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Doctors and nurses carted 35-year-old “Wendy Leader” — played by Meagan Sweeney, a nurse at South Nassau Communities Hospital — to the emergency room during a drill simulating a mass shooting in Long Beach. Her wound looked real, but was not.
South Nassau trains with mass shooting exercise
The sun was just setting beyond the swinging double doors of South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Emergency Department when a voice crackled over the radio: A mass shooting had been reported at a … more
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Roughly 70 Hofstra University students took part in a march across campus on March 14 to call for stricter gun control.
Hofstra students march to end mass shootings
Editor's note: Melanie Haid is a freshman journalism major at Hofstra University. This piece originally appeared in the Hofstra Chronicle, the student-run newspaper. Exactly a month after the mass … more
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Oceanside High School students held a solemn, 17-minute commemoration of the victims of the latest school shooting in Parkland Fla.
Oceanside High School observes 17 minutes of silence for victims of Florida shooting
For 17 solemn minutes of silence, hundreds of Oceanside High School students left their classrooms on Wednesday morning and flocked to the football field for a walkout in remembrance of the 17 … more
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