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Christmas in your neighborhood [Photo gallery]

The Herald's photo editor, Christina Daly, but together this video slideshow of homes in the Herald coverage area that have been decorated for the season. more

Christina Daly | 12/23/11

Herald Holiday Houses [Video]

Houses from all around our coverages areas decorated for the holidays. Is your house in the video? Check it out. more

Christina Daly | 12/22/11

Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray.

Re-elect Murray town supervisor

These days, it’s hard to find a government that isn’t teetering on the brink of financial collapse. Too often at the local, state and federal levels, years of runaway spending have led to massive … more

11/7/11

Happy Halloween from the Herald!

The staff of the Herald wishes all its readers a very haunting and happy Halloween! Bwaaaahhhhhh! more

10/31/11

This past summer, Herald Community Newspapers interns Shannon Pandaliano, front left, and Fran Berkman, front right, both Hofstra University students, prepared to take a tour of the Long Island Rail Road’s East Side Access Project with, from left, Herald Vice President of Operations Michael Bologna, Photo Editor Christina Daly and Executive Editor John O’Connell.

Herald interns get firsthand look at LIRR’s East Side Access Project

As part of their internships at Herald Community Newspapers this past summer, two Hofstra University students and one Duke University student donned hardhats and rubber boots and headed underground –– 120 feet underground. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 9/27/11

William Steckman, a West Hempstead man who worked as an engineer for WNBC-TV, is described as a devoted family man. Here he is shown with his grandson Zephrom not long before he died in the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The day that 'everything died'

The hours that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, were eerily quiet. “It was like everything died that day,” according to Deborah Steckman Koebler. In … more

By Lee Landor | 9/14/11

Winston Grant, of Lakeview, died on Sept. 11, 2001, when he stayed behind in the north tower to comfort others.

Lending a hand until the very end

Joyce Grant misses most the times she and her husband, Winston Grant, prayed together. She misses the kisses he used to give her before he left their Lakeview home every weekday morning to … more

Lee Landor | 9/7/11

Friends and relatives of Kevin Colbert — a lifelong West Hempstead resident who was a star player for the West Hempstead High School football team in 1994 — will remember him on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Colbert was on the 89th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center when it was struck by a plane.

Spirit of 'the Tank' is indestructible

Kevin Colbert would have celebrated his 35th birthday last week. He might have spent it the way he had most birthdays — going out to a nice restaurant for dinner with his mother and three … more

By Lee Landor | 8/31/11

Nicole Kivirtzikis, left, and Toni Asena, both of whom grew up in North Bellmore, are publishing an online book, “Wish,” about genies.

Genie is out of the bottle and online

While supernatural creatures like vampires and werewolves have risen in popularity in the media in recent years, two native North Bellmorities have been hard at work trying to popularize another mythical being –– the genie. more

By David Weingrad | 7/1/11

The value of community journalism

Every January, staff members at the Herald Community Newspapers pore over their work from the past year, deciding which entries to submit to the New York Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. more

4/21/11

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