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Like a tsunami, a great social and cultural wave is moving west to east in this country, favoring the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana.
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1/16/14
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The Sacred Heart Catholic Youth Organization seventh-/eighth-grade girls’ soccer team was the runner-up for the 2013 Nassau County CYO Championship title. The championship game was played at Town Park in Merrick on Sept. 17. Sacred Heart fell to St. Dominic’s of Oyster Bay 2-1 in the match.
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11/21/13
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Hundreds of local women gathered in Cedarhurst last week to support a Bellmore-Merrick breast cancer support center.
Circle of Hope, a project of the Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh Chabad Center for Jewish Life, hosted its second “Journey for a Purpose” benefit on Oct. 24. The event, which featured special guests and award presentations to local survivors and activists, attracted an estimated 400 women to the Sephardic Temple’s grand ballroom for what organizers described as an entertaining evening for a cause.
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/1/13
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It is Oct. 31, 1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are rushing home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon.
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10/31/13
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Breast cancer victims are our mothers, our sisters, our friends and, yes, sometimes our fathers and brothers.
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10/17/13
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For just the second time ever, female athletes at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore took to the school’s main field for a nighttime game last Thursday, Sept. 26. Like the following night’s Homecoming game between Kennedy and South Side High School’s football teams, relatives and friends of players stood cheering in the stands, music blared from loudspeakers, and the JFK Sports Boosters Club sold school clothing.
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By Brian Racow
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10/4/13
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Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4) has revealed that she has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer — and that she’s committed to beating this latest challenge.
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By Mary Malloy
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6/5/13
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Dozens gathered on May 18 at Merrick Road Park to take part in the Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event in which teams of people collect donations and then join together for nighttime walks and candlelight vigils.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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5/31/13
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When I heard that President Obama was playing golf with Tiger Woods two weekends ago, I wondered if the event might be interpreted as a kind of presidential pardon.
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2/28/13
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Students and teachers at Calhoun and Mepham high schools are hoping that as many people as possible shave their heads en masse next month.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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2/26/13
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