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Mostly Cloudy Lawrence students rally over senior class trip
Chanting slogans such as “The Lawrence board must go,” “We’re bored with the board” and “What do we want? We want our buses,” roughly 30 Lawrence High School students marched from Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park along Cedarhurst Avenue to the high school and up and down Oxford, Albemarle and Arlington roads by the Reilly Avenue campus on Monday.
Lawrence varsity cheerleaders share skills with kids
With the demise of the Inwood Buccaneers Athletic Club several years ago, the communities in the Lawrence School District do not have a youth sports program.
Five Towns Memorial Day parades on Sunday and Monday
The Five Towns will be graced by three Memorial Day parades to honor all U.S. military personnel who lost their lives in service of the country.
Sheinin, Jeter discuss Hewlett-Woodmere BOE priorities
After the May 17 school election, the face of Hewlett-Woodmere’s Board of Education will be changing slightly with newcomer Chani Jeter winning a seat and incumbent Trustee Debra Sheinin being re-elected as veteran board member Mitchell Greebel steps down.
Hewlett's Gershfeld repeats as Nassau tennis champ
Hewlett junior Stephan Gershfeld wasn’t going to let the hottest day of 2022 or stiffest challenger in the Nassau County boys’ tennis singles tournament keep him from repeating as …
Stella K. Abraham High School celebrates its academic honorees
The class of 2022 academic honorees for Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls include valedictorians Gabriella Herman and Atara Sicklick, salutatorian Yael Shtern and Mimi Altmark and Ilana Moskowitz as the Keter Shem Tov Award winners.
Roaring back was Arts Below Sunrise in Hewlett, Woodmere
For the first time since 2019, Arts Below Sunrise, a community music and STEAM [science, technology, engineering, arts and math] street festival that also includes crafts, entertainment, food trucks and vendors took place on May 15.
Woodmere Middle School poet Noam Sheerit honored
Woodmere Middle School eighth-grader Noam Sheerit received honorable mention for his poem “Triumphant Little Candle,” in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association’s 36th annual student poetry contest.
Family fun time at the Kulanu Fair in Cedarhurst
On a sunny, warm Sunday, the Kulanu Academy, a Cedarhurst-based school for children and young adults with special needs held its annual fair in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.
Bethpage Air Show flies back into the Jones Beach skies
Alexa Wahl was just 7 when her family began attending the Bethpage Air Show. Standing on Jones Beach and staring at the sky, she would watch the planes gracefully soar past. It was then that Wahl …
Editorial
Another tragedy, and no hope on the horizon
Celestine Chaney, 65. Roberta Drury, 32. Andre Mackneil, 53. Katherine Massey, 72. Margus Morrison, 52. Heyward Patterson, 67. Geraldine Talley, 62. Ruth Whitfield, 86. Pearl Young, 77. And then there was Aaron Salter . . .
Randi Kreiss
A Memorial Day like no other in our lives
The things we carry to this Memorial Day, 2022, are freighted with more recent events than past battles. On the last Monday in May, we look back . . .
Op-Ed
Must a girl in STEM be a ‘girl in STEM’?
Every weekday at 10:06 a.m., I walk into my high school engineering class and take a seat among my peers. I spend the period learning the same material as my classmates . . .
Jerry Kremer
In the governor’s race, Suozzi is stuck on first base
In just under six weeks, New York state voters will get a chance to select the candidates for governor and State Assembly. With no disrespect to that branch of the Legislature . . .