The Sacred Heart Catholic Youth Organization seventh-/eighth-grade girls’ soccer team was the runner-up for the 2013 Nassau County CYO Championship title. The championship game was played at Town Park in Merrick on Sept. 17. Sacred Heart fell to St. Dominic’s of Oyster Bay 2-1 in the match. more

Bethany Congregational Church, at 100 Main Street in East Rockaway, will be hosting its annual Thanksgiving feast on Thursday, Nov. 28 - free of charge. There will be a Turkey dinner, with all … more

Brian Carroll, of Valley Stream North, met a host of Roosevelt defenders in the Nassau Conference IV semifinals. He is part of a large contingent of players who will return to the Spartans in 2014. more

One year after incurring significant water damage from Hurricane Sandy, a Long Beach synagogue is set to celebrate its rebirth.Temple Emanu-El, at 455 Neptune Blvd., is holding a music benefit this … more

Our homes will soon be filled with the aromas of food being cooked. Undoubtedly, some homes will also be filled with smoke — hopefully from a few overcooked appetizers rather than a kitchen or … more

According to the Long Beach School District, at the Nov. 26 Board of Education work session meeting, the district’s facilities study group will present the conclusions of its months-long research … more

By Mary Malloymmalloy@liherald.comT he Herald asked its newspaper and liherald.com readers, and its Facebook followers, “Where were you the day JFK was shot?” Many of them had distinct … more

Tony Award winning Broadway superstar Bernadette Peters headlined the Molloy College Annual Gala at the school’s Madison Theatre on Nov. 8. Peters sang some of the best tunes from Broadway’s … more

At 2:49 p.m. on April 15, two pressure-cooker bombs loaded with ball bearings and nails detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, on Boylston Street, shrouding two blocks of multistory brick buildings in white smoke and sending shrapnel hurtling in all directions. Three people were killed and 264 injured in the terrorist attack. Merokean Kara Iskenderian, 20, who is now a junior at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., and a member of the school’s marathon team, was a third of a mile –– or less than three minutes –– away from finishing the race when the crudely constructed, homemade bombs exploded. more

Despite the biting cold, more than 200 members of the Long Island-based advocacy group Catholics for Freedom of Religion rallied outside Mercy Medical Center on Nov. 13 to raise awareness of upcoming … more