Three years ago, Marine Corp. Sgt. Julian Arechaga was killed on an Iraqi street. This month, the Baldwin block he grew up on was named in his honor. Surrounded by fellow residents, members of the … more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

Baldwin High School hosted its annual Intramural Night event last Saturday. The girls took part in dancing, aerobics, stunts and tumbling. more

When former President Bill Clinton asked to meet with Rahul Prabhakar, who had written an op-ed piece for the student opinion section of Newsday entitled "My Letter to President Clinton," it was only supposed to be a short photo-op. more

I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010. more

Thursday marks the official start of the Nassau County high school season, and it’s only the beginning of weekday action. more