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Katarina Meze, center, a doctoral student at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Watson School of Biological Sciences, recently led Herald staffers and interns on a tour of the 117-acre lab. Listening in were, from left, interns Zoe Malin, Alicia McGowan, Nia Matthews and Justin Zion.

Cold Spring Harbor Lab: Where science, technology and art meet

Educators from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences started to gather in Cold Spring Harbor in 1890 to conduct marine biology studies and hold classes over the summer, living in cottages and … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/8/18

These Stoneman Douglas survivors really got to me

Journalists are a hard-bitten lot. Internalize the emotions of your stories and you could end up jaded and angry, or worse, a drug addict. That would be good for no one. As a reporter, you record … more

8/2/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.

Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, bottom, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists. Both are on the staff of their student newspaper, The Eagle Eye.

Inside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series.Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

The first job I ever loved

I can still picture the last day of my fourth and final summer as a Fresh Air Fund counselor at Camp Hayden Marks, on the 2,000-acre Sharpe Reservation in upstate Fishkill, 28 years ago. The campers . . . more

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

Demystifying Anthony Bourdain

My brief viewer-host relationship with Anthony Bourdain took a nosedive in May 2013, a month after his CNN travel-food show, “Parts Unknown,” premiered. more

6/28/18

The Herald team had a blast at the Press Club of Long Island's annual Media Awards on Thursday, including, at front, kneeling, Zachary Gottehrer-Cohen, and, back row, from left, Stuart Richner, Peter Belfiore, Mike Smollins, Tony Rifilato, Ben Strack (at back), Jeff Bessen, Eden Laikin, Nadya Nataly and Clifford Richner. Missing was Hawkins, and Scott Brinton, who, as PCLI's incoming president, was helping to run the awards show throughout the evening.

Heralds earn top honors in Press of Long Island's Media Awards

Herald Community Newspapers editors and reporters came up big in the Press Club of Long Island’s annual Media Awards, which were handed out Thursday at the Woodbury Country Club.The Herald … more

6/8/18

Memories of Mexico lead to a career in journalism

As I scroll back through my childhood remembrances, Mexico comes to me in clips and phrases, a staccato succession of wonder and horror — but mostly wonder. more

6/8/18

Trump, Clinton and musings on the Electoral College

Strangely, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton landed in Nassau County on the same day, at the same time, last week. Trump came for a roundtable in Bethpage . . . more

6/1/18