Throughout the summer, Lynbrook High School student Sara Bahri spent many late nights at the Weill Cornell Medical College’s Andersen Lab of Physiology and Biophysics, in Manhattan, poring over research documents as part of a major science experiment.
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By Mike Smollins
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1/16/20
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Three hundred semifinalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search were announced Wednesday afternoon, and 36 seniors from Long Island high schools — including seven from the Heralds’ coverage area — were among the mix.
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1/8/20
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Part four in a series.
More than 50 years ago, racial tensions in the Malverne School District peaked. Prejudice divided the local community as hostilities mounted. Today, however, the district is …
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By Nakeem Grant and Robert Traverso
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11/14/19
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A viral infection that led to congestive heart failure nearly killed Aidan Slattery in 2003, when he was just 6 weeks old, but he survived. Earlier this year, however, the 16-year-old’s heart began to fail him again, and this time Slattery, a Lynbrook High School junior, needed a transplant, which he underwent in late June.
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By Mike Smollins
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10/24/19
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The East Rockaway Alumni Brunch is scheduled for Oct. 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Michael’s Porthole, 92 New St., in Oceanside.
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10/10/19
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On the afternoon of Sept. 16, two weeks after the start of the new school year, Oceanside High School senior Khaseen Morris was brutally murdered in what appears to have been an ambush by a group of a half-dozen other teenagers.
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9/27/19
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School spirit was evident in the stands at East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School on Sept. 21 as supporters, many donning black and orange, vocally rooted for the Rocks during their Homecoming game.
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By Mike Smollins
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9/26/19
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The football field at Marion Street was a sea of green and gold as hundreds of supporters came out to support Lynbrook High School’s varsity football team during its Homecoming game on Sept. 21.
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By Mike Smollins
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9/26/19
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Editor’s note: Devin Johnson, one of 10 participants in Hofstra University’s 2019 Summer High School Journalism Institute, is a rising junior at Elmont Memorial High School. The following …
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By Akinwale Agesin
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9/5/19
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Right here in my corner of the universe, a feel-good, do-good project has been sending children back to school every year for the past seven years, with new books and backpacks, sneakers and clothes and even toiletries — and it’s all free.
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8/9/19
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