“This is very cool… and quite an honor,” new Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano said as a hundreds applauded and chanted his name on New Year’s Day. Mangano was sworn in as the eighth county executive in the auditorium of his alma mater, Bethpage High School.
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Andrew Hackmack
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1/1/10
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In more than 25 years as a social studies teacher in Oceanside, Andy Morris has touched many lives -- his colleagues’, his students’ and the recipients of the various charitable efforts he has …
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Annmarie Fertoli
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12/30/09
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As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts.
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12/24/09
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All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth ...” Well, I suppose that wouldn’t be on my Christmas wish, but I know my young son would appreciate some more teeth.
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Al D'Amato
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12/24/09
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By ALEX COSTELLO
Students from Oceanside’s School 5 took a field trip to Oceanside Middle School on Dec. 14 to learn about Internet safety from their fellow students in a seminar hosted by …
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Alex Costello
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12/23/09
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ceanside and Island Park residents shoveled out of their first snowstorm of the season last weekend. More than a foot of snow fell in the area, and heavy winds produced even higher snow drifts. Snow …
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12/23/09
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Jeff Toback is leaving office next month, but the five-term county legislator is assuring the community that he is not going anywhere, and will continue to remain active in civic life. Toback also …
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Annmarie Fertoli
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12/23/09
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The New York Philharmonic returns to Tilles Center under the baton of Music Director Alan Gilbert in an all-Russian program, Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 p.m. Russian-born pianist Yefim Bronfman is the …
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12/23/09
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We bid farewell to yet another year (in this case a decade) and get ready to welcome 2010. Here are some suggestions on where and how to celebrate.
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Karen Bloom
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12/23/09
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State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a Republican from Merrick, Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Lenny Rosado were joined at a news conference last week by state and local officials to remind Long Islanders that Leandra's Law took effect on Friday, making drunken driving with a child a felony offense in New York.
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Sari Zeidler
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12/21/09
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