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June Tinkhauser, 30-year Baldwin high teacher, dies at 90

June Tinkhauser wasn’t content with keeping her lessons inside the classroom. The longtime Baldwin High School English teacher took several students to England to see William Shakespeare’s … more

By Anthony O'Reilly | 9/20/18

The enemies at our gates: gangs and pushers

Since last October, Nassau County police have identified the bodies of six teenagers who were hacked to death with machetes by members of the El Salvadoran gang MS-13. After the most recent discovery of remains . . . more

9/6/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.

Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, bottom, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists. Both are on the staff of their student newspaper, The Eagle Eye.

Inside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series.Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Michael Otterman, formerly of Merrick, and the author of two books on the Iraq War, was among the many speakers at the recent Hofstra University High School Summer Journalism Institute, which is co-directed by Heralds Executive Editor Scott Brinton.

Former Merokean Michael Otterman authored two books on war

Editor’s note: Choudhry, 17, recently graduated as salutatorian from Elmont Memorial High School. She wrote the following during Hofstra University’s annual High School Summer Journalism … more

By Laila Choudhry | 8/1/18

A sample of the test booklets provided to students who took the Project Talent test nearly 60 years ago.

Another test, 58 years later

Close to 60 years ago, Baldwin High School students in the classes of 1960 to 1963 sat down to take a multi-day aptitude test known as Project Talent. For some, it was something they thought about … more

By Anthony O'Reilly | 7/5/18

Stop politicizing the fight against MS-13

Bodies started turning up in South Shore parks and woodlands in the past year and a half: teenagers hacked to death with machetes or shot in the face by members of the ruthless El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. more

6/14/18

Junior Kaia Harrison earned MVP honors of the Federation Tournament after scoring 15 points to lead Baldwin to a 58-49 upset win over Christ The King in last Saturday's Class AA final in Glens Falls.

Baldwin's Lady Bruins win Federation title

A week after becoming the first Long Island-based girls’ basketball team to capture back-to-back state championships, Baldwin had another date with history. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 3/27/18

Baldwin students got a hands-on lesson in child care during Shadow Day.

Hofstra hosts 20th annual Shadow Day event

More than two dozen professionally dressed, career-minded Baldwin High School students paired off with professors and program heads at Hofstra University during the school’s 20th annual Shadow Day Program on March 15. Every year, Baldwin High sends about 25 sophomores and juniors to Hofstra. The students are chosen based on their educational and career interests. Participants get a real sense of what it’s like to be a college student. They sit in classes, meet professors and chat with students. more

By Daine Taylor | 3/23/18

Let’s hear the kids out on gun control

On the same day that a million young people walked out of school to protest gun violence and remember the 17 students and teachers killed in Parkland, Fla., the National Rifle Association tweeted a photo of an AR-15 . . . more

3/22/18