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Mostly Cloudy BREAKING NEWS: Oceanside $167.9 million school budget passes, D’Ambrosio, Transom Re-elected to school board
Oceanside stays ‘CoopStrong’ as 4-month-old Battles Neuroblastoma
Mike Graham, fire commissioner and long-time Oceanside resident, thought he was taking his 4-month-old son Cooper for a routine eye exam, but it turned out to be a much more serious issue, which has …
Voters approve Island Park Public Schools' $42M budget for 2022-23
Island Park Public School proposed budget of $42.023.670 million was approved Tuesday, May,17 in a 256 to 181 vote. This is an increase from the $40.9 million from 2021-22. The tax levy for 2022-2023 …
Oceanside $167.9 million school budget passes, D’Ambrosio, Transom Re-elected to school board
Polls opened Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. as Oceanside School District residents voted on the $167.9 million budget proposal for 2022-23. An increase from the $163.4 million budget that was approved …
Oceanside getting ready For Best Wings Festival
Chicken wing fans on Long Island are gearing up for an exciting food competition that is headed for Oceanside on May 21. The Official Best Wings Championships is coming to the South Shore Craft …
Town board approves Mount Sinai center
The Town of Hempstead Board of Appeals voted to approve the Mount Sinai medical office building at 2020 Wantagh Avenue at their May 11 meeting. The board has voted to accept the variances Mount Sinai …
Finding ways to relieve all those final exam stresses
As students experience growing anxiety with each passing year of their academic journey, one of the most common contributors is high-stakes tests. Society has created a picture that portrays …
Oceanside Cove Welcomes community garden
Residents of Oceanside Cove say they are happy with their recently completed community garden. The private, 50-acre development has had plans to create a shared garden for years, during which it has …
Oceanside School 5 inventors win $50,000 at Samsung competition
After winning $6,500 and $50,000 in the first phases of the competition, Kristin Stea’s elementary students from Oceanside School 5 traveled to New York City to pitch their project to a panel of …
Oceanside woman indicted for stealing death benefits
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on May 3 that Oceanside woman Akosua Agyeman was indicted for stealing from the New York City Employees' Retirement System.
Oceanside aims for signature win
Oceanside’s first measuring stick against one of Nassau County’s Class A championship contenders didn’t go according to plan, but coach Rob Blount’s squad has three serious …
Editorial
Another tragedy, and no hope on the horizon
Celestine Chaney, 65. Roberta Drury, 32. Andre Mackneil, 53. Katherine Massey, 72. Margus Morrison, 52. Heyward Patterson, 67. Geraldine Talley, 62. Ruth Whitfield, 86. Pearl Young, 77. And then there was Aaron Salter . . .
Op-Ed
Must a girl in STEM be a ‘girl in STEM’?
Every weekday at 10:06 a.m., I walk into my high school engineering class and take a seat among my peers. I spend the period learning the same material as my classmates . . .
Jerry Kremer
In the governor’s race, Suozzi is stuck on first base
In just under six weeks, New York state voters will get a chance to select the candidates for governor and State Assembly. With no disrespect to that branch of the Legislature . . .
Randi Kreiss
A Memorial Day like no other in our lives
The things we carry to this Memorial Day, 2022, are freighted with more recent events than past battles. On the last Monday in May, we look back . . .