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Mostly Cloudy Baldwin Fire Department marks 125 years of service
Friday is Hook & Ladder Co. 1’s anniversary
On a bitterly cold Tuesday night in January 1896, the Baldwin General Store caught fire when a kerosene lantern dropped. Baldwin did not have a fire department, so volunteer firefighters from …
Baldwin Republican Club donates blankets, puzzles
The Baldwin Republican Club spread the love this past Valentine’s Day. Members collected new blankets and donated them to the St. Christopher’s food pantry. They were delivered on Feb. …
Petition calls for after-school theater, music in Baldwin
Student launches petition to support the arts
Baldwin High School students, alumni and community members are calling for the return of after-school theater and music activities. “Recently, it has been announced that Baldwin High School …
Nonprofit rescues abandoned domestic ducks in Baldwin
With spring less than four weeks away, the domestic duck dumping season has begun in the Town of Hempstead. Activists with Long Island Orchestrating for Nature, also known as LION, an animal …
Baldwin, Freeport millennials talk diversity
Legislator hosts virtual panel with residents
Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé hosted a discussion with millennial constituents last week as part of a virtual panel called “Redesigning the District: A Conversation with …
Baldwin's championship run on hold
Baldwin’s drive for an eighth consecutive Nassau Class AA girls’ basketball title must wait another year since the county announced a condensed season will commence after eight games with …
Freeporter sentenced to life — again — for murdering two Baldwin men
Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that John Pierotti, 66, of Freeport, would continue his life-sentence without parole on Feb. 24, nearly a year after a jury found him guilty …
Love was in the air
“I found Larry over a death certificate,” Michelle Foder said of her husband. She’s a funeral director at Franklin Funeral Home in Franklin Square. “So we found something …
Ribbon cutting marks 3D’s Aftercare Inc. grand reopening
Community leaders, neighbors and elected officials congratulated Dr. Zodelia Williams, the founder and executive director of 3D’s Aftercare Inc., last Friday on the grand opening of her …
Local students launch dog rescue club
A group of high school students from throughout the Baldwin area have formed a club to support local nonprofit dog rescue centers and advocate for adoptions and rescues of dogs. Oceanside High …
Herald Hometown Hero
This week's Baldwin Hometown Hero
Everything is bedazzled and glittered, still, even through the pandemic. We still are making that work. We’re making the bedazzling and the glitter and the confetti, still happening. I always …
Editorial
State must provide greater municipal oversight
Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman announced last week that he would not run for re-election — a wise move, given the tenuous nature of any candidacy he might have tried to mount.
Op-Ed
Momentum builds to eliminate housing discrimination
The new year is off to a promising start in the effort to eliminate housing discrimination, with significant actions taken by the federal and state governments. Those actions, and related ones that are brewing . . .