Glen Cove continued celebrating its combined “100/350” anniversary with the opening of an exhibition on Jan. 12, at the North Shore Historical Museum. Entitled “How Glen Cove Became a City,” … more

Historian Claire Bellerjeau has been working for the past 14 years to unearth two truths — the life of Oyster Bay’s Townsend family, including that of Revolutionary War spy Robert Townsend, and … more

“Whaling was one of the first racially integrated industries in the United States,” Nia Adams from the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum told a small group of elementary and middle schoolers at … more

First in a series of Black History Month stories. Some people can trace their family’s roots to the 1700s, others only a generation or two back. Documenting a family’s history nearly always … more

Perhaps no show on American television addresses the perilous times in which we find ourselves more vividly than ABC’s “Black-ish,” which . . . more

Roughly midway through Emanuel “Manny Sokal” Sokolofsky’s 13-year career as an NBA referee, the now 88-year-old Oceanside newcomer made a bad call. Anticipating a foul, Sokolofsky blew the … more

After a few weeks of additional training in traumatic wound care at a New York hospital, Rusha reached England toward the end of 1917, aboard the HMS Olympic. That luxury liner had by then been converted to a troopship. In March 1918, she reached Mars sur Allies, in central France. Instead of a true hospital, there were nine small hotels converted into wards. In the first three weeks, her unit admitted a staggering number of sick and wounded soldiers — 252 French and 358 Americans. In the seven months leading up to the Nov. 11 armistice, the unit handled 8,142 surgical and 7,481 medical cases. By then, they had converted 20 hotels into wards and constructed several barracks. more

Molloy College is better equipped to begin unearthing the historical context behind some of Long Island’s economic and social issues after receiving a $1.5 million donation from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. more

With the elections of 2017 behind us, much has been written about the Town of Hempstead’s town supervisor position being held by a registered Democrat for the first time in over a hundred years. … more

For the first time in more than a century, the Town of Hempstead will have a Democratic supervisor. Laura Gillen, a Rockville Centre attorney, defeated incumbent Republican Anthony Santino on Tuesday night by roughly 2,000 votes. more