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West Hempstead High School Assistant Principal Michelle Maron, left, congratulated Maheen Khan, along with high school guidance counselor Donna Seeberger, Principal Alvaro Escobar, and Assistant Principal Michael Zanfardino.
W. H. senior named Gates Millennium Scholar
Maheen Khan, valedictorian of West Hempstead High School’s Class of 2016, has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar. To qualify for the scholarship, Maheen was evaluated on her academic achievement, community service and leadership potential demonstrated throughout her school career. more
The Moscow Festival Ballet visits the Madison Theatre on March 4 with its production of Giselle.
What's happening on Long Island this weekend
Exhibits and more... Africa: Sub-Saharan DiversityDrawn exclusively from the Hofstra University Museum’s collections, this exhibition explores the rich diversity of 25 ethnic cultures across … more
People created a memorial near the site where Gabrielle Johnson, 12, was struck by a car and later died.
Community mourns Elmont H.S. student
On Feb. 1, an Elmont family experienced an almost unimaginable tragedy. Gabrielle Christina Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Elmont High School, stood on the corner of Village Avenue and … more
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Rock icon Billy Joel announced a $1 million contribution to the Long Island High School for the Arts last week, with the condition that Nassau BOCES keep the school open for another three years.
Billy Joel pledges help for L.I.H.S. for the Arts
Nassau BOCES announced at its meeting last week that rock icon Billy Joel would pledge $1 million from The Joel Foundation to help save the Long Island High School for the Arts in Syosset, which has been threatened with closure over the past year due to dwindling enrollment. more
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Sakeenah Benjamin, front, and Nakeem Grant, at back, were among six Hofstra University graduate journalism students who mentored members of the Hempstead High School newspaper club this fall as part of a new program begun by Scott Brinton, a Hofstra adjunct professor and the Heralds’ senior editor.
Showing aspiring reporters at Hempstead High the world of journalism
This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce … more
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Delmy Valle, right, a Hempstead High School senior, is concerned about how the media treats schools like Hempstead. She believes the media needs to give the school more positive attention to help boost students’ spirits. She was joined here by Franklyn Garcia in Advanced Placement calculus class.
Focusing on the positive at Hempstead High
Hempstead High School is called a “failing school” and has been so for the past 10 years, according to the the 2015 State of New York’s Failing Schools. With a graduation rate of 37 percent … more
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Lucy Acosta, a senior at Hempstead High School, emigrated from Honduras when she was 6 years old. She had to work hard to learn English. She says she feels comfortable among students who were born abroad as well as in the U.S., but she knows that not everyone does. Her article looks at ways to unite the two groups of students.
Uniting Hempstead High School as one
A loud, screeching bell rang through the hallway of my old elementary school as I was walking to my next class. As the halls filled with students at Bethpage Elementary School, I could feel the walls closing in on me. I noticed, however, a new face I hadn't seen before. It was a new kid at school who was accompanied by a parent, struggling to navigate through the chaos. I remembered when it was my innocent face –– a 6 year-old immigrant student from Honduras. more
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Long Island Muslim Society leaders said that interfaith services at the East Meadow mosque, like the one they hosted on June 22, bring community members of various faiths together.
Recapturing the narrative
Mohammed Saleh, 67, has a multi-faceted identity. He is a Bangladeshi immigrant who arrived in the U.S. 44 years ago, eventually moving to Merrick in 1985. He is a successful pharmacist who became a … more
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Scott Brinton
What I learned at Hempstead High
On my first day in Hempstead, I watched a man get arrested. I was driving by. There he was, on the sidewalk, a police officer leading him away in handcuffs. more
Dr. Stephen Dewey answered Bellmore-Merrick parents’ and residents’ questions about the effects that drugs have on the mind.
The teenage brain on drugs
The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more
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