Both children and adults doubled their fun as the beautiful weather and exciting attractions made Kulanu’s annual community fair at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park the place to be last Sunday. more

The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads. Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school. more

Students in nursery school through eighth grade at The Brandeis School in Lawrence raised nearly $2,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program. more

Lawrence Woodmere Academy’s 89th graduating class took their final Upper School bows and received their high school diplomas as 37 students that make up the class of 2013 took part in the ceremony on June 10. more

Prior to my senior year, leaving Cedarhurst was the prize after living in the same town for all my life. “Finally,” I often thought to myself, “finally, I get to leave this all behind.” more

The first time I was at the Tilles Center on C.W. Post’s campus was three years ago with my clarinet and fellow pit band members to play “Pomp and Circumstance” and “Romanesque” for the Hewlett High School class of 2010 graduation. more

The night before the National History Bee Championships on June 1, Woodmere Middle School eighth-grader Alec Fischthal laid in his hotel bed in Atlanta counting emperors and kings. more

Kulanu Center for Special Services in Cedarhurst held its spring Arts and Science Festival on May 30. Students exhibited a wide range of work that applied what they learned in the classroom. more

Firefighters from two Five Towns fire departments — Woodmere and Meadowmere Park — and approximately 150 pre-school to fourth grade Hebrew Academy for Special Children (HASC) became better acquainted at the Woodmere school’s annual Firemen are our Friends Day on May 29. more

Four huge events have filled my last few weeks at Lawrence Woodmere Academy (LWA). As graduation on June 10 creeps closer, being a senior at LWA feels similar to walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards. more