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With the coronavirus pandemic still coursing across the country and the vaccine rollout yet to hit its stride, leaders in the Five Towns public school districts agree with the New York State United Teachers union that this school year’s state standardized tests for grades three through eight should be canceled, and possibly the state Regents exams as well.
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By Jeff Bessen and Matthew Ferremi
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1/27/21
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Lawrence School District officials said that the State Education Department has allowed the kosher
food distribution program that provides up to 21,000 households with food every Wednesday was extended another week, Jan. 20, while the SED awaits data from the school district. The program is a partnership between the Lawrence School District and Lawrence-based Elite Caterers.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/14/21
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Restaurants can apply for New York state grants for up to $5,000 from the state economic development agency for help to survive through the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/13/21
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Let’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by . . .
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1/7/21
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The nearly 5-acre site that once housed a sheet metal fabrication factory at 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood lies vacant after the 155,000-square foot, one story building was demolished in 2018. Current applicant Inwood 175 LLC and AJM Capital II LLC bought the property from Nassau County one year earlier.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/28/20
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There is an urgent need for blood, according to the New York Blood Center.
Blood donors ae needed. On Sunday, Dec. 27 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Woodmere Fire Department is hosting a blood …
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/23/20
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Capt. Mark Getman, from Cedarhurst, serving with the New York Guard Headquarters, received the Operational Support Medal during recent unit training events.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/18/20
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New York state is facing a $9 billion budget deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic, with severe cutbacks and tax hikes likely on the way. Although there should be some relief coming at the federal level . . .
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By Nick Buglione
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12/17/20
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I think sometime around the end of October, my husband and I ran out of things to say. Sitting across the dinner table from each other over plates of Costco soup and a homemade Greek salad with wimpy lettuce, our eyes met and . . .
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12/17/20
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The Covid-19 vaccine is being administered to frontline health care staff at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, hospital officials said. St. John’s, the only hospital on the Rockaway Peninsula, treated the first Covid case in Queens and dealt with the Rockaways being overwhelmed with coronavirus as by May the area recorded the second highest Covid death rate in New York City
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/16/20
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