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Rice declared victory in the Democratic primary at her campaign's Election Night party.

After primary wins, Blakeman and Rice eye November

Kathleen Rice and Bruce Blakeman are now gearing for the summer and fall campaign seasons leading into November’s general election ... more

By Brian Racow | 7/9/14

The Western Bays provide many recreational opportunities such as kayaking, but scientists say that fertilizer runoff and partially treated sewage effluent threaten the health of the bays. Above, a wetland canal at Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick.

The Western Bays, an ecosystem suffering from all sides

Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm. more

By Stapha Charleme | 6/20/14

Imagining a world free of nuclear arms

Journalism lost one of its greats last week. Jonathan Schell, a best-selling nonfiction author, columnist and correspondent for The New Yorker, Newsday and The Nation, died . . . more

By Scott Brinton | 4/3/14

Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, of Merrick, announced his candidacy for the State Senate’s 8th District seat at a press conference on Thursday afternoon at Seaford’s American Legion Post 1132.

Denenberg running for State Senate

Dave Denenberg, the Merrick Democrat who has represented the Nassau County Legislature’s 19th District for 14 years, has decided he is ready to move from Mineola to Albany. more

By Brian Racow | 3/6/14

No movement by Cuomo to fill Fuschillo’s seat

Residents of the 8th State Senate District, which stretches along the South Shore from Baldwin to Lindenhurst, do not now have a representative in the New York State Legislature’s upper chamber. This troubles some as Albany legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo negotiate this month over how the state will allocate its more than $100 billion budget. more

By Brian Racow | 3/5/14

I was just 17; you know what I mean

The Beatles’ invasion of America 50 years ago this month was a global event, but in 1964, in the Five Towns, it was very much a local story. more

2/14/14

Insults, old as the ages, scrawled on walls

Are we seeing things or are we seeing something? Police are looking for the person or persons who wrote anti-Semitic epithets . . . more

1/31/14

Grand opening: Royalton debuts in Lawrence

After months of renovation following Hurricane Sandy, The Lawrence Yacht and Country Club has emerged as stately and magnificent as ever. more

1/16/14

Poverty — the story of us all

The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished. more

10/3/13

Dr. Keith Metzger, far right, one of Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s first professors, teaches anatomy. Here he was pictured with a class in the school’s state-of-the-art laboratory.

Rethinking medical school

Seated in his expansive, brightly lit office on the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s second floor, Dr. Lawrence Smith, the school’s founding dean, appears at home, a smile etched across his face as he speaks of the school’s role in transforming medical education. more

By Scott Brinton | 7/23/13

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