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Mostly Cloudy After 30 years on the Valley Stream 13 school board, this towering trustee retires
When his son’s pre-K principal asked the crowd of parents if their children were left-handed, Frank Chiachiere and his wife, who were in the crowd, raised their hands. They were the only hands …
Valley Stream School Elections 2023: Incumbents sweep school board races, budgets win wide approval
The ballots have been counted, and voters have not only approved Valley Stream school district budgets, but re-elcted incumbent school board trustees as well, in landslide victories. …
Valley Stream School Elections 2023: Here's the results of school board races, budgets
The field is set for school board elections and proposed spending plans across the Valley Stream school districts. Here's a rundown of what's on the ballot for each school distrist this year. …
Valley Stream School Board Election 2023: In District 24, Trustees Nuñez and Hernandez face challengers
Five candidates are vying for three seats on the District 24 Board of Education on May 16. Newcomer Rachel Figurasmith is challenging incumbent Trustee Cynthia Nuñez, who is seeking her first …
Valley Stream School Board Election 2023: Three races for school board in Valley Stream 13
Six candidates are vying for three contested seats on District 13’s Board of Education on May 16. Newcomer Charles Sanky is challenging incumbent trustee Gerardo Cavaliere, who is …
CRIME
Valley Stream mother-son duo plead guilty to murder of Far Rockaway man
A Valley Stream mother and her son pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old Far Rockaway man in 2020, the Queen’s district attorney’s office said.
Schools
This Valley Stream native is a Goldwater Scholar
Antonio Collado, a biochemistry major at Hofstra University, has been honored as a Goldwater Scholar and recipient of the Chemers Neustein Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from Rockefeller …
Schools
James Dever revamps its Take10 program for book buffs
Va lley Stream 13’s James A. Dever Elementary School welcomed back its Take10 program after pandemic-induced hiatus. This program started over 10 years ago as a James A. Dever exclusive …
Schools
Give a big Willow Road welcome to this national park ranger
Valley Stream 13’s Willow Road Elementary School was recently visited by park ranger Tyler Kuliberda from the National Park Service. Students were given the opportunity to learn about the …
Valley Stream 13 students celebrate holy month of fasting
Ramadan is celebrated worldwide annually in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. In honor of Ramadan, Valley Stream 13 schools partook in classroom lessons and activities aimed at broadening the …
Editorial
This summer, keep our kids from drowning
The video is heart-wrenching. One by one, parents explain how their child drowned, holding their pictures and saying their names. It’s part of a public service announcement . . .
Op-Ed
Municipalizing LIPA would be a big mistake
Converting the Long Island Power Authority to a public power utility from a private-public partnership, which is being considered by the State Legislature through a commission, would be a massive mistake.
Randi Kreiss
Mothering our way through the pandemic
A global pandemic was never part of the job description in my Mothers Handbook, circa 1971, but so be it. This is our time.
Peter King
Those who leak national intelligence must be punished
The true enormity of the real-life consequences that will result from the leaking of sensitive national security secrets by Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira hit me hard the other day . . .