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Overcast How bullets can harm a Valley Stream neighborhood long after the violence
The boom of gunfire sent dozens running for cover at an illegal party at an event space at Ocean Avenue late last month. That night, the lives of five young people became collateral damage in what …
Valley Stream Highlights: Marking 22 years since 9/11 terror attacks
A split sky — with clouds casting a gray shroud, threatening rain, on one side, and on the other a near-cloudless light blue — hung over the solemn crowd gathered around the …
South Shore drug ring busted
Pounds of drugs, weapons seized
A sweeping drug trafficking operation across Long Island’s South Shore was disrupted after a nine-month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency and Nassau County District Attorney’s …
How a Valley Stream neighborhood reckons with gun violence
Elizabeth Rios told her two kids to stay quiet and hunker down as she heard the sound of gunfire outside her Ocean Avenue home on Aug. 21. A few paces away, a hail of bullets ripped through a crowd …
See how Bruce Blakeman is stepping up school safety measures
Bruce Blakeman and Patrick Ryder stood on the steps of Valley Stream Central High School, holding up a backpack. No, this wasn’t one of the many school supply giveaways that take place …
Community
At Valley Stream District 30, a century of learning, second to none
Valley Stream District 30’s current and former school administrators, students, principals, and teachers celebrated the district and Clear Stream Avenue School’s 100th-year anniversary on …
Schools
Valley Stream South High among the nation’s best
Valley Stream South High School has been recognized among the nation’s 1,000 best public high schools, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual list for 2023. The ranking placed …
Crime
Queens woman charged with child neglect at Green Acres
A Queens woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child when she left her two children unsupervised inside a parked car at the Green Acres Mall on Sept. 5, according to police. At 4:20 …
Government
Senator opens district office on East Merrick Road
State Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick’s new district office has a home in Valley Stream with a ceremonial office opening and ribbon cutting on East Merrick Road on August 30. Various …
Community
This is how tenants, homebuyers can get ahead
Purchasing a home can be an exciting yet daunting task — involving, as it does, finding out how to afford a down payment, finance a mortgage and secure approval. Prospective and current …
Editorial
Politics is partisan — voting isn’t
Some 158 million Americans voted in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but 63 million eligible people could not because they weren’t even registered to vote.
Peter King
Looking back again on a tragedy we’ll never forget
For all Americans, and particularly Long Islanders, who recall the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, reliving those tragic moments each year is devastating, and yet, at the same time, gratifying and reassuring.
Randi Kreiss
Are you working those friendship connections?
Last week I had dinner with Jack, an old friend. We’ve known each other for 30 years, and he was my friend by extension, since his wife and I were best buddies for decades. She died about eight years ago.
Op-Ed
Serious pollution in the airspace above is being ignored
Today, everyone is conscious of pollution and its detrimental effects on our environment and health. The most common forms are water, air and plastic pollution, but there is another type . . .