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A Few Clouds Plans to change the hiring process at the LVCSD
Locust Valley reforming hiring practices
Following the arrest of former Locust Valley Middle School/High School music teaching assistant Charles Bull for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old boy whom he met online, the district is …
Loss of funds won’t close Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood rejects Title X funding
A decision by Planned Parenthood on Monday to withdraw from the federal program Title X, which granted the agency nearly $60 million annually, is cause for concern, said Saskia Thomson, vice …
Opinions differ on cause of anti-Semitic incident
Is hate speech responsible?
For some, the anti-Semitic incident was personal. The discovery of seven 10-inch swastikas scrawled in purple marker on the walls of the picnic pavilion at Oyster Bay’s Theodore Roosevelt Park on …
Oyster Bay Animal Hospital under new management
The Oyster Bay Animal Hospital has inhabited the same space at 64 Pine Hollow Road since 1964, but after a merger with West Hills Animal Hospital and Emergency Center in Huntington last year, the …
Save the Sound: North Shore beaches are getting cleaner
Call for water infrastructure improvements
With the sun shining and a breeze blowing across the shoreline at Theodore Roosevelt Park in Oyster Bay, those who gathered for Save the Sound’s news conference on Aug. 2 couldn’t have asked for …
Surgeon Dr. John Cosgrove opens office in Oyster Bay
Dr. John Cosgrove was first introduced to the medical field when he was in the fourth grade. That’s when a family friend, who was a physician, brought young Cosgrove with him to his office and then …
Locust Valley teacher from Sea Cliff is arrested in FBI sting
A former teaching assistant in the Locust Valley Central School District was arrested on July 24 in Melville after allegedly going to a hotel intending to have sex with a 13-year-old boy he met …
Hanrahan retrospective a tour de force
Only a few weeks remain for Oyster Bay residents to view a 40- year retrospective of artwork by local native Jerelyn Hanrahan, a show that features an astonishing breadth of work, influenced not only …
Pleading guilty, Venditto receives no jail time
Former Supervisor John Venditto, of Massapequa, 70, pleaded guilty today in Nassau County Court before Justice Charles D. Wood, a Westchester Supreme Court Judge, to charges stemming from two Nassau …
Bayville brewery showcases an unconventional journey
For Old Tappan Brewing Company co-owners Matthew Cryan, 47, of Bayville, and Brent Kunkle, 37, of Sea Cliff, the debut of their new storefront in Bayville is the culmination of years of hard work and …
Op-Ed
Health insurers count on our silence
I didn’t attend many funerals in my childhood. One that I recall was for the father of a close childhood friend.
Editorial
Enough with ‘drill, baby, drill!’
At the 2008 Republican National Convention, party stalwart Michael Steele declared, “Drill, baby, drill! And drill now! Do you want to put your country first?"
Op-Ed
Catholics must speak up to end abuse
When I see stories of sexual abuse by clergy members, I’m often angry with many people. Mostly, I’m angry with those who allowed the abuse to go on uninterrupted for years . . .
Op-Ed
We’ve got a plan to make L.I. commuters’ lives easier
For far too long, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been a faceless organization, with Long Island Rail Road riders paying for overpriced tickets while receiving subpar service. For years, over 300,000 daily LIRR riders . . .