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Fair Officials break ground on Superblock project
There are few people in Long Beach who can remember the last time that a crowd gathered outside a six-acre vacant lot just a few feet from the boardwalk, known to locals as the Superblock. But …
Hempstead salutes 9/11 heroes in moving ceremony
Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead …
Reflecting on the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years later
The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades . . .
Erin go bragh in L.B. this year, but with some wee changes
No amusement rides to be allowed
Irish Day is one of Long Beach’s largest events, drawing thousands to the West End, where the green flows for hours — vendors sell food and other items and restaurants and bars do a …
Long Beach police arrest synagogue vandalism suspect
A 23-year-old man whom police described as homeless was arrested late Sunday in connection with the vandalism at an Orthoxox synagogue in Long Beach Saturday.
A tribute: ‘He was hip-hop’
Some three decades ago, the quiet, young London-born boy would sit in his room in a small wooden house on Hudson Street in Long Beach, studying, reading, listening to music and dreaming: He would one …
Listen to the Lifeguards! – Help avoid a drowning
As we enjoy the hot and long mid-summer days, there are only a few things more enjoyable than a dip in the ocean. But that does not mean taking unnecessary risks when trying to cool off. Swimming in …
Mixed reviews for South Shore wind farm
If Long Beach residents are concerned about a private company’s $3 billion proposal to build a 174-turbine wind farm 15 miles off the South Shore, few of them voiced it at a virtual hearing on the …
Editorial
U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier
To the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest month in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Scott Brinton
Restoring a lost habitat in our backyard
In the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches . . .
Randi Kreiss
All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.
If there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-can-eat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads . . .
Op-Ed
L.I. school board tries to ban Black Lives Matter
The Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality.
Long Beach Magazine
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The top 10 must-do's in Long Beach this summer
Fly high, Long Beach
As the sun sets on the Long Beach Boardwalk, an orange and yellow glow coats bicyclists, runners and summer beach-goers. As light drenches Skudin Surf, tourists run over to take a photo with the …