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“We can’t live as seniors in a building with no security,” said Annie LaSalle, who lives at 415 National Blvd., a Long Beach Section 8 senior housing building.
The six-story apartment …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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1/23/13
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Once upon a time there was a 12-year-old fro m the Bronx who wanted to make her mark in the literary world by writing an original fairy tale. However, there are no glass slippers, seven dwarfs or evil witches in the real-life story of author Patricia Gordon’s writing experience, but her latest book “The Queen of Broken Hearts” pays homage to the world’s most beloved fairy tales with a unique twist of its own.
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By Brian Croce
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1/17/13
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“A hundred-year storm” was I phrase I heard politicians and meteorologists use to describe this mysterious Sandy. With the memory of Hurricane Irene still fresh in my mind, I figured that once again these warnings were an exaggeration, nothing more than a precaution.
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Amber Garrick
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12/12/12
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Oceanside High School teacher and resident novelist Frank Nappi has released a new book that may raise as many eyebrows as it is garnering rave reviews.
Nappi, an English and Creative Writing …
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By Aaron Axelson
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11/28/12
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It may be human nature to believe that the worst can never happen. Perhaps we can’t wrap our psyches around the thought of our homes and businesses –– our lives –– in tatters.
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11/15/12
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Tolls will once again be collected on the Atlantic Beach Bridge beginning Monday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. after being suspended since Oct. 28 due to Hurricane Sandy to ease the evacuation of the barrier island.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/15/12
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I always thought it was cliché to say, “I’ve never seen anything like it,” but in the aftermath of Sandy, I can honestly say that, in my lifetime, I’ve never seen anything like it.
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11/15/12
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A week after Hurricane Sandy lashed the South Shore with a 10-foot storm surge and hurricane-force wind gusts, Long Island Power Authority officials said on Nov. 5 that the utility had restored power to 675,000 of the 1.2 million customers who lost their electricity in the storm. But the majority of Bellmore-Merrick residents south of Merrick Road were not among those to get their lights back on, even though many, if not most, parts the Bellmores and Merricks north of Merrick Road had electricity.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/5/12
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The superstorm called Hurricane Sandy will surely go down as one of the U.S.’s most costly and crippling storms, ripping a $20 billion swath of destruction up the Eastern Seaboard, and Long Island’s South Shore was front and center amid the tumult as Sandy’s northern end lashed communities from Bellmore to Valley Stream and from Long Beach to Rockville Centre.
Now, after the flooding and the fires, the anxiety and fear, the South Shore must slowly rebuild, one home, one school, one business at a time.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/31/12
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It is with a heavy heart that I write about the loss of Larry Elovich, my best friend.
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9/27/12
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