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Overcast A new JROTC tradition
When the Uniondale Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) played a flag football game against the Freeport Navy JROTC on Saturday, Nov. 13, a new tradition was formed.
Blakeman wins county executive's seat after absentee count
Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, retained his Election Night lead over Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran after all absentee ballots were counted on Nov. 15, finishing with a 2,150-vote lead.
The winning strategy? GOP grass-roots campaigning.
If Election Day 2021 proved anything, it’s that Long Island voters shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Cleanup on Marginal Road: The Last Hurdle
Elton E. McCabe, Jr., and his neighbors are determined to end the noise and visual impediment created by trucks and buses parked along Marginal Road in Uniondale.
Hempstead salutes 9/11 heroes in moving ceremony
Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead …
Editorial
U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier
To the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest month in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nassau County Politics
Re-elect Laura Curran as Nassau County executive
A little more than a year into Laura Curran’s third year as county executive, the world was roiled by the coronavirus pandemic. The continuing pandemic’s impact on life might have consumed lesser elected officials, but not Curran.
Elect Todd Kaminsky Nassau County district attorney
The most hard-fought, nastiest race in Nassau County this election season has been the contest for district attorney, pitting Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky against Republican Anne Donnelly. …
ENDORSEMENTS 2021
Ryan Cronin is choice for county comptroller
In the race to fill Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman’s post between Democrat Ryan Cronin and Republican Elaine Phillips, our choice to support Cronin boils down to his holistic plan to …