Thursday, June 12, 2025
The Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County values giving its patients, many of who face physical limitations, access to typical life experiences.
With their future high school standing tall in the background, sixth graders from the North Bellmore School District had a picturesque day for the annual track meet on May 19.
Dreamland Amusements brought their carnival to the Merrick train station during Memorial Day Weekend, supporting local businesses and bringing joy to local residents.
Siddhangi Wickramasinghe, a Sanford H. Calhoun High School sophomore, has been named the Nassau County girls individual badminton champion.
Ron Segev attended the Nova Music Festival in Israel with friends and family on Oct. 7, 2023, when gunfire erupted. For hours, Segev, 39, and his brother carefully avoided death before he noticed his friends were left behind, so he turned back to rescue them. He came all the way from Tel Aviv to the Merrick Jewish Centre on May 14 to share his story of ongoing trauma recovery at before an audience of 100 local residents.
When Cynthia Seibold founded Balloon Mission, a nonprofit organization dedicated to balloon waste and environmental education in January 2023, she never could’ve imagined how much the organization would grow in just over two-and-a-half years.
There was no better weekend for Nassau County to celebrate Fleet Week 2025 than Memorial Day weekend. In Eisenhower Park’s Field 2 on May 24, a combined team from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard brought helicopters to the park.
Students at Martin Avenue Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District gathered inside the school’s gymnasium for the annual Memorial Day ceremony.
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In New York, across the country and around the world, people are experiencing a loneliness epidemic that humankind has never seen before.
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I just returned from Pope Francis’s funeral. It was a great honor to be a member of the small official U.S. delegation. As his simple wooden coffin, marked by a plain cross, emerged into the Rome sunlight, a ripple of applause rose from the crowd — a spontaneous act of gratitude for a man who lived a life of service, humility and love.
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