Labor Day isn’t far behind us, but we all know how time flies. Soon enough it will be November, and Election Day. All the political talk thus far . . .
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9/17/15
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State and local officials gathered at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow on Aug. 25 to call for harsher criminalization laws for the sale and use of K2, a street name for a type of synthetic marijuana that has become a popular recreational drug among young adults in recent years.
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By David Weingrad
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9/9/15
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A group of animal activists gathered outside the Town of Hempstead’s Animal Shelter in Wantagh last week calling for a change in leadership, and saying that policies are resulting in the deaths of healthy animals.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/2/15
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It was not your ordinary day at Seamans’s Neck Park in Seaford. Instead of tennis balls flying through the air on the courts, there were hockey balls gliding across the ground. Instead of tennis racquets, there were hockey sticks.
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By Kenneth Mintz
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8/19/15
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Henry Boitel wasn’t asking for anything complicated. He just wanted to know what’s going on at the Town of Hempstead board meetings when he wasn’t able to attend. “The public doesn’t have any idea of what’s going on at those meetings,” said Boitel, “unless they read something in the newspaper.”
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/12/15
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A plan to build three houses on a long but narrow piece of property on Wantagh Avenue has been scrapped.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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8/11/15
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In April 2014, two students at St. Anthony’s High School, in South Huntington, brought a Confederate flag to a sporting event. They were subsequently expelled. Later that month, Newsday published an editorial . . .
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7/29/15
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A group of Herald Community Newspapers editors, reporters and interns took a kayak tour on Nassau County’s wild side, at the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, on July 24.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/28/15
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The race for Nassau County district attorney is one of the most important contests in this election cycle. Vying for the top prosecutor’s job are two talented women . . .
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7/22/15
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The long-awaited reconstruction of Beltagh Avenue has begun. As soon as school let out, construction crews started work paving the quarter-mile road which serves the Wantagh High School-Middle School complex and two animal shelters.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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7/8/15
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