Members of the Island Park community gathered at the Bridgeview Yacht Club on Feb. 10 to honor a handful of hometown heroes for the civic association’s Love Your Troops 2018 Dinner Dance.
It is …
more
By Peter Belfiore
|
2/20/18
|
Long Beach resident Julie Brodsky had tears in her eyes as she described the conditions of her hometown in Puerto Rico. More than three months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory, and …
more
By Peter Belfiore
|
1/3/18
|
Annual water bills for typical residential customers in Sea Cliff jumped to $821.82 from $587.23, an increase of more than $200 a year, after the New York State Public Service Commission announced in …
more
12/28/17
|
Exercising the duty of their namesake, members of the Island Park Civic Association gathered at the Island Park Library on Dec. 12 to send nearly 500 letters to elected officials and utility …
more
By Peter Belfiore
|
12/21/17
|
xWhat started as an idea to foster community involvement quickly became an organization when Freeporter Joseph Gambino recently drummed up enough support among neighbors to start the South Freeport …
more
By Nadya Nataly
|
12/1/17
|
Continuing a three-year tradition, the Island Park Civic Association held its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive on Nov. 10 at the Local Ale House benefitting the Sacred Heart Church food pantry and the …
more
By Peter Belfiore
|
11/29/17
|
When I met Nelson Melgar, the only thing we thought united us was a shared concern for our community. We met by chance at an event at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County . . .
more
7/20/17
|
On a sun soaked summer solstice on June 21, about 200 local residents flocked to the Bay Park Civic Association Beach House in honor of Linda Pirrone, a longtime East Rockaway resident who was diagnosed with younger onset dementia seven years ago at age 50. There is no cure.
more
By Mike Smollins
|
7/5/17
|
Patricia Locurcio, secretary to the West Hempstead Chamber of Commerce for more than eight years and a very active West Hempstead volunteer, has a very simple request. “I need a van,” said Locurcio, who has multiple sclerosis and a 2006 Dodge Caravan that she says is falling apart. “And I don’t have the money to afford another one.”
more
By Rossana Weitekamp
|
5/18/17
|
The Island Park Civic Association collected nearly 100 stuffed bunnies at its third annual Hug-A-Bunny Fundraiser earlier this month, which the group donated to South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside on April 12 to be distributed to children.
more
By Ben Strack
|
4/20/17
|