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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order declaring July Rip Current Awareness Month on July 5 at Nickerson Beach, alongside the Nassau County Legislature’s presiding officer, Rich Nicolello, and Josephine De Moura, whose daughter drowned in a rip current.

Rip currents are Nassau County theme for July

Rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water headed away from shore that aren’t easy for recreational swimmers to spot. Nervous swimmers who find themselves caught in a rip … more

By Brendan Carpenter | 7/16/23

Now we need a ResCheck?

Q. We are in a quandary about insulation. Our house was built in 1948, and isn’t insulated well. We decided to add a master bedroom and kitchen extension and insulate as much as we can. more

By Monte Leeper | 7/13/23

Nailing down the permits

Q. We completely rebuilt in 1996, and are ready to retire and sell. Our real estate agent told us they checked our permit records and it was never signed off. more

By Monte Leeper | 7/13/23

Easy summer living? Not for some children.

Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school. more

7/13/23

Honor Harry Chapin’s legacy with action to end hunger

If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . . more

By Arnold W. Drucker | 7/13/23

Congestion pricing, a hole-in-the-head proposal

Timing will be a key issue when it comes to the state’s long-planned congestion-pricing plan, which is scheduled to start sometime in 2024. more

7/13/23

Journalists become targets for jihadists

The number of foreign correspondents has plummeted in the past 10 years, and most overseas news bureaus have either shrunk or shuttered their offices. more

7/13/23

Julius Wolfe and Alex Kremins, center left and right, with Wolfe’s mother and father.

How a Long Beach man saved a stranger’s life

In February 2021, Julius Wolfe came down with a fever, and small red spots, called petechiae, appeared on his legs. His mother, Tabitha Nilson, took him to an emergency room to make sure he … more

By Brendan Carpenter | 7/9/23

More than 150 young wrestlers gathered at the Wrestling Takes Down Drugs camp at Long Beach High School last week.

Learn how to combat drug addiction on the wrestling mat

Kevin Glenz, a star lacrosse player at Lynbrook High School and the son of Larry Glenz, a longtime wrestling coach at the high school, died in 2010, at 27, of a heroin overdose. Last week, Long … more

By Sean Kennedy | 7/9/23

Body found floating in Reynolds Channel

Long Beach police and the Nassau County homicide squad said the body of a man was found floating in Reynolds Channel shortly after 1 pm Saturday. The body was brought to shore and taken to … more

8/21/22

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