Education in New York’s public schools has changed in recent years with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the property tax cap in 2012. Educators, board members and parents have voiced their disdain with each, but with the first round of state assessments this week, their message has grown louder. more

Exhibits and more...AftermodernisM Spring 2014This exhibition illustrates a broad range of styles spanning non-objective abstraction through sharp focused realism. Featured artists Michael … more

Something was missing from the meeting of several Nassau County Legislature candidates on Oct. 9 at the Merrick Library. It was debate. This was not the fault of the candidates who participated. It was the fault of those who did not. more

For the next six weeks, you will hear Democratic and Republican candidates for county and town office complain about how bad a job members of the other party have done when they were in power, and how bad it would be if they were elected again. more

With a special Board of Education election on the horizon, the North Bellmore Coordinating Council of PTAs is inviting residents to meet the candidates one more time. more

In November, when voters head to the polls, they may see some changes on the ballot. On Jan. 1, new State Assembly and Senate districts take effect, along with new congressional districts. more

Justin Plotnick was doing what any other 16-year-old would do. Last September, the Mepham junior was with his friends, skateboarding outside Mepham High School on a sunny afternoon. He had just bought a new fisheye lens for his camera earlier that day and was testing it out. That’s when his friend, Richie Dominguez, also a Mepham junior, converted a perfect tail slide with his skateboard on a nearby bench. Plotnick snapped the photo, but it wasn’t until after when he realized he had captured the moment perfectly. more

"Four DWIs [is what] it took before that woman killed my child," said Deena Cohen, president of the Long Island chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Cohen was speaking before an assembly of about 50 students at Seaford High School, arranged by State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a Republican, and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, a Democrat who is up for re-election. Cohen’s 21-year-old daughter, Jodi, was killed by a drunk driver 20 years ago. "I need you to understand the importance of [not] drinking and driving and drugging and driving," Cohen told the students. "The pain never goes away, ever ... The pain is still here. The 20-year number did something to my head. Jodi is gone almost as long" as she was alive. Tears were welling up in students' eyes as Cohen spoke. more