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Fair Sewanhaka Central High School District proposes $244M budget for 23-2024 academic year
The Sewanhaka Central High School board has unveiled a proposed $244 million budget for 2023-24, which includes the implementation of new courses and several improvement projects across all five …
Nassau County's South Asian community opens up about pressing issues
Unity could lead to reduction in hate crimes
The first-ever South Asian Advisory Group Town Hall was a night of promoting unity and tackling critical issues impacting the South Asian community on Long Island, such as domestic violence, hate …
The Franklin Square Civic Association's Hometown Heroes banner program returns for fifth year
Editor's note: Since press time, the deadline for applications has been extended to April 15. The Franklin Square Civic Association is celebrating local veterans and heroes for a fifth year with …
Basketball pros help students improve skills at Elmont Memorial High School
Some of the most knowledgeable, talented and experienced basketball coaches took to Elmont Memorial High School’s court on Feb. 25 to help students enhance their skills, self-confidence and overall …
Joined by opposition to Hochul’s housing plan
More than two dozen Long Island elected officials teamed up to show a united front against Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal for high density housing in single-family neighborhoods on Long Island …
UBS Arena LIRR station in full operation in Elmont
The brand new Long Island Rail Road station for the Elmont-UBS Arena is now running full-time. The station — the LIRR’s first new one in almost 50 years — kick-started its full-time, …
Elmont school board president questioned about bus use
By ANA BORRUTO aborruto@liherald.com Michael Jaime is under fire for reportedly using a school bus for a trip into Manhattan without any communication or proper paperwork. And parents are …
Dogwood Terrace senior housing redevelopment sparks outrage in Franklin Square
A plan by the Town of Hempstead to modernize Dogwood Terrace — an affordable senior housing complex in Franklin Square — is quickly gaining opposition from neighbors, who are calling it a …
Police increase reward for Elmont acid assailant to $50,000
Nafiah Ikram — the 23 year-old Elmont victim of an acid attack — has one message for her unidentified assaulter: "they are going to get their karma one day." Ikram was assaulted on March 17, …
Hochul gives OK for upgrade to Belmont Park
The New York Racing Association has corralled Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support for the Belmont Park redevelopment plan — which would completely modernize the 118-year-old horse racing facility in …
Op-Ed
Is creativity a thing of the past?
Human civilization has developed side by side with technology — some may say, in competition with it. Technological innovations have diminished the need for workers in jobs requiring . . .
Randi Kreiss
Thirteenth letter to my grandchildren
Hey, sweeties, Can it be that you are now 20, 18, 16 and 14? Do you read the paper?? Are you catching this online?
Editorial
Teddy Roosevelt: a president who defied labels
Monday was Presidents Day, a holiday that, unless you work in a bank or the government or a school, you might have missed.
Op-Ed
It’s time for our energy to go public
Most Long Islanders are rightly confused about who is responsible for our ever-rising electricity bills. We get our electric bills from PSEG, yet there's also the Long Island Power Authority, as well as National Grid. Who does what?