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Longtime Herald publisher Cliff Richner, center, with the Herald’s Long Island editorial staff at a gathering in June to celebrate his retirement after 36 years in the news business. He will remain an owner of the company that was founded by his parents in 1964.

“It’s been a fascinating career — I feel very lucky to have lived it,” said Cliff Richner, co-owner of Richner Communications and the longtime publisher of Herald Community Newspapers, who retired last month after 36 years in a family-run company that has left an indelible mark on local community news on the South Shore. more

By Anthony Rifilato | 7/26/18

Community Chest South Shore Treasurer Steven Liebman, Cyclones catcher Yeugye Colon, Dime Bank branch manager Chris Reide and Community Chest Vice President Eric Keslowitz at Jewish Heritage Night.

Celebrating Jewish Heritage Night with the Cyclones

Community Chest South Shore, Dime Bank, the Nassau Herald and Jewish Star sponsored 80 ticketholders from the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC Sustenance Hope Opportunities Place and kosher food pantry at the Brooklyn Cyclones game on Jewish Heritage Night on June 26. more

7/12/18

The Head Start program at the Five Towns Community Center received a donation of toys valued at $3,000 from the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. At the far left is Felicia Grandy, behind the banner Lesley-Ann Herard, program educator for the center’s Health and Prevention services, and at the far right Jodi and Richard Brodsky.

Brodsky Foundation donates toys to Head Start

The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation donated $3,000 in toys to the Five Towns Community Center and Felicia Grandy’s Operation Head Start Program in Lawrence on July 2. more

7/12/18

A community drug awareness event is scheduled for July 16 at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. Organized by the Gural JCC and several other Five Towns organizations and institutions, it is aimed at helping parents understand the issues surrounding substance abuse.

Battling the drug scourge

The scourge of drug abuse will be the topic of a community event at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence on July 16 at 8 p.m. A seven-member panel will be moderated by Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender, founder and president of the Achiezer Community Resource Center, a Lawrence-based organization that partners with other groups to help families enduring hardships ranging from illness to financial troubles. The discussion will focus on parents, with a provocative query: “Our kids know about drugs. Do we?” more

By JEFFREY BESSEN and DENA GERSHKOVICH | 7/12/18

Dr. Carina Biggs, chief of trauma surgery at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, puts in long hours, but she said she loves her life-saving work. She decided she would become a doctor at age 4 or 5.

A South Nassau trauma surgeon's daily routine is saving the lives of people on the brink of death

The following is Part One of an occasional series called “Working,” which will examine the lives of people on the job. It was inspired by Studs Terkel’s 1974 book, “Working: … more

By Scott Brinton | 7/5/18

Let's at least study gun violence

The mass shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., on June 28 struck all of us at the Herald Community Newspapers hard. Five Gazette staff members are dead and two are wounded. These … more

6/29/18

It’s time Empire BlueCross invested in communities

If you operated a library and no one returned the books, sooner or later you’d be out of business. America’s nonprofit hospitals face a similar problem. more

6/28/18

Hewlett firefighters responded to a two-car crash at Mill Road and Peninsula Boulevard in Hewlett on June 16.

Two hurt in Hewlett crash

Two people were taken to South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside after an accident, where one vehicle was overturned after the two vehicles crashed at the intersection of Mill Road and Peninsula Boulevard in Hewlett just after 9:30 p.m. on June 16. more

By Tyler Marko | 6/18/18

Golf outing co-chairs Jeff Greenfield, left, Tony Cancellieri, honorees Matt Whalen and Joel Schneider and South Nassau president and CEO Richard Murphy with a rendering of the hospital’s upcoming southwest addition.

Hundreds tee off at South Nassau golf outing fundraiser

After a wet weekend, the sun shone through as nearly 400 golfers on May 21 teed off across three local golf courses for South Nassau Communities Hospital’s golf outing fundraiser benefitting its … more

By Peter Belfiore | 6/6/18

Kathryn Geraghty, a registered nurse in South Nassau Communities Hospital’s geriatric wing, checked the lungs of John Bores, of Oceanside, who suffers from a heart condition.

Help wanted: Demand for nurses growing as baby boomers retire, age

In South Nassau Communities Hospital’s geriatrics wing on a recent Friday, the nurses’ station in the center of the ward was a swirl of activity at midday.Registered nurse Kathryn … more

By Scott Brinton, James Mattone, Brian Stieglitz and Zachary Gottehrer-Cohen | 5/10/18

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