The tragedy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate in the 21st century, as students at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Middle School took part in the Names, Not Numbers project and showed their videotaped interviews with survivors on June 2.
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By Lisa Margaria
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6/9/22
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Animal General of East Norwich was chosen as ‘Vet of the Year’ on Dec. 30 by local animal advocacy organization Long Island Orchestrating for Nature. The veterinary hospital is …
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By Will Sheeline
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2/4/22
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After years of customers alleging that Shake a Paw stores in Lynbrook and Hicksville sold them sick puppies that eventually died, and following rallies against the businesses, the New York state attorney general’s office has filed suit against the establishments.
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By Mike Smollins
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12/23/21
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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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Governor Cuomo recently announced his 2021 agenda — aptly titled “Reimagine, Rebuild, Renew” — and included in it is an ambitious $26 billion green-energy plan . . .
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1/28/21
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In his Jan. 13 State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined a $26 billion green-energy plan to increase solar and wind projects, including two offshore wind farms, one of which is slated to connect to the E.F. Barrett Generation Station in Island Park.
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By Mike Smollins
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1/21/21
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As Election Day and the deadline to register to vote on Oct. 9 near, local political activists are urging people to cast their ballot.
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By Jennifer Corr
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10/8/20
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Meet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to . . .
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By Randi Kreiss
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9/11/20
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We are blessed with the curse of living in interesting times, and our duty is to bear witness. Like the Greatest Generation, we are in the midst of a fight for our lives . . .
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7/10/20
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If there’s one overarching economic lesson the coronavirus pandemic is teaching us, it’s that the United States has become over-reliant on other nations for critical manufacturing capacity.
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5/21/20
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