I have been blessed to raise my hand and pledge to serve my community as an elected official many times over the past 16 years. However, last Monday was the first — and hopefully, last — time that I will take the oath of office in my living room.
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By Debra Mulé
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1/20/22
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Kerry Dunne, principal of McVey Elementary School contributed to a book this past summer. “Building Community and Capacity for Data Intensive Evidence Based Decision Making in Schools and …
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By Mallory Wilson
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1/20/22
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Meadowbrook Elementary School is getting a new principal, the East Meadow Board of Education said at its Dec. 12 meeting. Danielle Lasher will take the school’s reins Feb. 1 from Kelly Di …
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By Mallory Wilson
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1/20/22
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East Meadow’s boys’ basketball team is beginning to gain some traction. After being idle for two weeks and coming off a pair of non-league victories using just five bodies, the Jets …
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By Tony Bellissimo
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1/16/22
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A collective sigh of relief has segued to more familiar shouts of excitement at East Meadow, as the Jets appear to have quashed early questions surrounding their quest for an eighth-straight trip to the Nassau County Class AA girls’ basketball playoffs.
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By Garrett D. Uribe
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1/10/22
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Coming off a Nassau Class AA boys’ basketball championship in the 2019-2020 campaign, Baldwin played just four games last winter after it was forced to quarantine following a Covid outbreak on …
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1/5/22
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The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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Being in the hospital is hard, especially for children, which East Meadow resident Tracy Pulice knows only too well. When her 23-year-old son Thomas Allred was 18 months old, he had several surgeries …
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By Laura Lane
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12/9/21
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In recent months, we have seen a growing number of parents crowding school board meetings across Long Island, protesting the state mandate requiring students to mask up in schools.
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12/2/21
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I recently joined five Long Island high school students for a visit to the Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, the 18th-century site where many enslaved people of African descent lived.
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By Elaine Gross
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11/18/21
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