A kite-flying event hosted by the Long Beach Latino Civic Association last Sunday took the city’s celebrations of Hispanic Heritage Month to new heights — literally.
With a backdrop …
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By Angelina Zingariello
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10/13/23
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I’ll be seeing you, just not every week. In June, when I wrote “Column writing through hell and high water,” I told readers I was taking a leave from writing for a few months . . .
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9/21/23
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Imagine students who can not only grasp the concepts of STEM courses through the diligent application of the scientific method, but also generate original and thought-provoking work in the humanities.
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By Daniel Rehman
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8/31/23
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There are just two federal holidays each year acknowledging — and thanking — the brave men and women of the U.S. armed forces for their service to our country.
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11/10/22
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My father's untimely death has been brought into sharper focus by the departure of another significant man in my life, the Herald Community Newpapers’ executive editor, Scott Brinton.
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By Juan Lasso
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2/17/22
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A young writer at South Side High School earned high recognition for her work over the summer.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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10/8/20
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Hemingway famously said that writing is easy: You only need to open a vein. He acknowledged the pain of digging into one’s own truth. But times have changed . . .
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5/31/19
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A group of men and women trickled in one by one to sit at horseshoe shaped table to start the monthly meeting on memoir writing at the Freeport Memorial Library.
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By Lauren Whyte
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2/22/19
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Past and present Valley Stream residents are encouraged to submit their memories, essays or autobiographies to the Valley Stream Historical Society as part of the organization’s new literary …
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By Peter Belfiore
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11/23/18
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Newspaper writer Erasmus Wilson was, no doubt, an über-male chauvinist. In an 1885 Pittsburgh Dispatch column, he joked that American families should kill their baby girls, as was common in China then.
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8/24/18
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