To observe Physical Disabilities Month, the entire student body of Lynbrook’s Marion Street School adopted the Bubba Fund, a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to supporting programs that promote the growth and independence of physically challenged children. more

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law. more

Working with the Lynbrook PTA, Lynbrook resident Shari Cohen makes a positive difference in the lives of children in Hewlett Harbor. more

WIlliam Gaylor, president of the Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce, has announced a new membership category designed to encourage community involvement. more

After months of debate, the Lynbrook village board unanimously voted at its Nov. 16 meeting to allow the fifth largest wireless telecommunications network in the country, Metro PCS, to install six cell antennas on the top of 381 Sunrise Highway. That building, commonly known as the Congressional building, already has 42 permitted antennas on its roof. more

About a year ago, eight-year-old Spencer Chrein, a third-grader at Marion Street School in the Lynbrook School District, read an article in the Herald featuring two girls who had just donated their hair to the Locks for Love Foundation. more

Lynbrook officials are looking at ways to reduce expenditures, and one of their biggest operating costs is energy. So the village board is planning to analyze energy use and determine how to make the six buildings the village owns more energy-efficient. more

Even energetic, gorgeous, talented and sexy people have to rest sometime — and that's just what the cast of Broadway’s “Burn the Floor” did recently at the Malverne home of two of their … more

I've recently written a series of articles chronicling what it's like to be arrested for drunk driving in Nassau County. Though I've had the participation of the district attorney's office, Nassau County police and a number of defense attorneys, as well as input from many readers, one voice has been noticeably absent. Until now. 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