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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.
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2/26/13
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Fourteen Herald Community Newspaper executives, editors and reporters bundled up in heavy coats and woolen hats and boarded the Capt. Lou VII in Freeport to take a two-hour tour of the waterways south of the village in search of harbor seals last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/13
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East Meadow residents were recently treated to a little-known chapter of history, when World War II veteran Bernard Rader visited the East Meadow Public Library on Jan. 23 to tell his story of being a prisoner of war.
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By David Weingrad
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1/30/13
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The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/9/12
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Two young, dynamic chamber ensembles grace local stages this Mother's Day weekend.
The outdoors also beckons, with a Woodland Widlflowers Walk at Mu†tontown Preserve on Sunday.
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5/9/12
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Some 270 volunteers grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat last Saturday to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to clean up more than 18 tons of rubber tires, Styrofoam buoys, aluminum cans and plastic bottles trapped amid the reeds and rushes.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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3/28/12
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From vocal journeys to animal adventures, there's much to do to escape the January blahs this weekend.
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1/11/12
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East Meadow's defense kept Freeport out of the end zone on four tries from the 4-yard line as the Jets held on for a 34-33 victory and their first county title since 2006.
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Steve Siniski
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11/19/11
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Freeport stormed out to a 22-point halftime lead and kept East Meadow at arm’s length following intermission in a 44-29 Conference I victory.
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Steve Siniski
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10/25/11
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Coloki, Inc., a nonprofit group set up by Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy to run the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer that aids impoverished day laborers, will host a benefit fundraiser at Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/10/11
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