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Museum counts down to Apollo 11 anniversary
Imagine a living room on July 20, 1969. A vintage black-and-white television sits in the corner, with its limited number of channels. A special news broadcast is showing Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepping off a spacecraft that looks much like an oversized insect as he intones, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Adventure Park opens at Jones Beach
As part of the state’s $100 million-plus Jones Beach State Park upgrade, the park opened its newest attraction, the WildPlay Adventure Park, over the holiday weekend at its West Bathhouse. Gov. …
Schumer pushing for L.I. radium bill
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is advocating for a plan that would ultimately guarantee the accuracy of test results for radium levels in Long Island groundwater especially near the Navy/ Grumman plume in Bethpage, according to a press release.
Brooks calls current school funding system ‘unfair
State Sen. John Brooks recently sponsored a bill that could begin redefining how schools are funded, reducing the burden on local homeowners.Senate Bill S.1687, which was passed by the Senate during …
Herald staffers volunteer at Island Harvest farm
Six members of the Herald Community Newspapers staff spent the morning of June 27 volunteering to work the land at a two-acre organic farm in Brentwood run by Island Harvest, a nonprofit that feeds …
Wantagh business teacher recognized for success
The Long Island Business Teachers Association recently named Wantagh School District Business Education teacher Nancy O’Connor the 2019 Business Teacher of the Year. “I’m very …
Holy Trinity celebrates feast of Pentecost with primate
With deep piety, elaborate pageantry and sumptuous music, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, in East Meadow, welcomed His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard), the primate of the Orthodox Church in …
Wantagh synagogue dedicates fourth Torah
A fourth Torah — the Jewish scripture containing the books of Mosaic Law — was dedicated at Congregation Beth Tikvah in Wantagh on June 9. The new Torah entered the sanctuary under a …
State unveils ambitious plan for Bethpage toxic plume
Hundreds of people gathered in the auditorium at Bethpage High School on June 11 to learn about the ambitious proposal by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to contain and …
Wantagh H.S. class of 2019 graduates
“High School graduation is the end of a journey,” Wantagh High School Principal Carolyn Breivogel told the 243 seniors at their graduation last Friday. “[It is a] special journey …
Op-Ed
Multifamily housing caught in its own ‘Groundhog Day’
Remember Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”? He played a TV reporter repeating Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa., again and again. I often feel the same when I look back at my 20 years of public meetings and debates about multifamily housing’s effects on Long Island schools.
Editorial
Newspapers’ existential crisis
In 1996, Hewlett House was a dilapidated farmhouse, long empty and fast rotting. The Hewlett-Woodmere School District, which owned it, planned to demolish the 300-year-old structure to make way for a parking lot. Then the Nassau Herald started reporting on the historic home’s plight.
Randi Kreiss
Uncle Joe would have loved my Aunt Helen
You might think that there’s nothing more to say about former Vice President Joe Biden and the touchy-feely behavior that makes some women “uncomfortable,” but that’s only because you didn’t know my Aunt Helen.