Roughly 275 people circulated through the banquet hall at O’Connell Gardens in Oceanside to gather information from more than 35 vendors who had tables set up around the perimeter of the room as Herald Community Newspapers presented its second Senior Health Expo on April 11.
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By Mike Smollins
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4/17/19
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The loudest voice in the Jewish Reform movement is now, sadly, silent.
Al Vorspan, who was jailed with several other Reform rabbis in 1964 in Augustine, Fla., after responding to a clarion call from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to join the civil rights protest, died on Feb. 16 in upstate New Paltz. The former Hewlett resident was 95.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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Responding to criticism of non-union labor at the $5.5 million Arlington Avenue sanitation transfer station reconstruction project, Racanelli Construction, the contractor hired by the village to …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/7/19
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It is a spectacle that has become less frequent as private-sector union labor has declined over the past three decades, but there it was in Valley Stream last week: a 12-foot-tall rodent standing in …
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By Peter Belfiore and Melissa Koenig
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1/31/19
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Head to Oceanside Library Meeting Room 1 for an afternoon of nostalgia on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.
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11/14/18
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Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen denounced a proposed measure on Aug. 2 that would extend civil-service worker pay scales to appointed employees, effectively giving them a combined $800,000 …
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By Peter Belfiore
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8/6/18
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Jet fighters and a variety of vintage planes could be seen and heard streaking and roaring across the skies over Jones Beach State Park and as far north as Merrick, Bellmore and Wantagh on …
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By Scott Brinton
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5/27/18
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In 2003, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation decided to hold an air show the following year to celebrate Jones Beach State Park’s 75th anniversary. Right around …
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By James Mattone
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5/24/18
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Kam Wong, 62, a Valley Stream resident, was arrested on May 8 and was charged in federal court with fraud, embezzlement and aggravated identity theft offenses.
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By Melissa Koenig
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5/9/18
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A Baldwin man was arrested on Feb. 13 at 12:01 p.m. after fleeing the scene of the Bethpage Federal Credit Union where he allegedly stole an unknown amount of money.
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2/14/18
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