Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tackled all kinds of discrimination when it came to employment and public accommodation, it bothered Sen. Birch Bayh that the bill failed to address sex discrimination at schools.
more
11/24/22
|
If you had told 19-year-old Huntington Bay native Grace Dima a year ago that she would be playing at the Nassau Coliseum in front of family and friends as a member of Long Island’s first Division I college hockey team, she might have called you crazy.
more
By Jordan Stoopler
|
10/20/19
|
Friends and family of Henry Andresen, a Valley Stream resident who died in Blessed Sacrament Church two years ago, held a fundraiser at Eisenhower Park on April 8 to raise money to fund and distribute automated external defibrillators to local churches that don’t have them.
more
By Nick Ciccone
|
4/19/17
|
Sounds of skates gliding across the ice and sticks battling for pucks filled the air at Grant Park on Jan. 10, as players from a growing ice hockey league in Valley Stream faced-off in a scrimmage to celebrate the addition of a new varsity team.
more
By Mike Smollins
|
1/19/17
|
In my wildest political musings, I could not have imagined a more comically frightening scene: Sarah Palin standing side by side with Donald Trump, endorsing him for president.
more
1/28/16
|
District 24 held its seventh annual hockey tournament on Jan. 21, in which two teams from each elementary school competed in a double elimination tournament.
“The kids work hard on practicing …
more
By Nick Ciccone
|
1/27/16
|
Valley Stream’s middle-school-age ice hockey athletes now have an opportunity to represent their hometown, with a second official village team now its inaugural season after its first was …
more
By Nick Ciccone
|
1/21/16
|
One final parking lot tailgate. One final walk through the way-too-narrow concourse. One final puck drop. One final chant ribbing the cross-town rivals. One final eye squint trying to read the small, …
more
By Brian Croce
|
4/14/15
|
When the breakout New York Islanders have scored one of their many dramatic goals this season at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, it sounds like the roof could blow off the place. And inside the …
more
By Brian Croce
|
2/11/15
|
Sports fans across the globe will soon turn their eyes to Sochi, Russia, where the XXII Winter Olympic Games will be contested from Feb. 7 to 23.
more
1/30/14
|