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An alleged Hewlett hate crime has raised concerns regarding the migrant crisis for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.   more
If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . . more
Friends, colleagues and family are remembering Linda Howard Weissman — a longtime leader of Five Towns Community Chest — after she was struck and killed by a car last week on Shore Road in Cold Spring Harbor. She was 76. more
At 90 Phillip Ritzenberg still had a full head of jet black hair and was swinging a sledgehammer to split firewood outside his Woodmere home. more
Hewlett-based Hindi’s Libraries founded by Five Towners Leslie Gang and Dovid Kanarfogel received a donation from the Northport Rotary for the second consecutive year. The philanthropic North Shore organization collected more than 8,000 children’s books and delivered more than 100 boxes filled with those books this past weekend. The rotary club also donated $1,000 to help defray shipping costs. more
Congressman Gregory Meeks, a Democrat who represents southwest Queens, Elmont, Inwood and north and south Valley Stream, the senior member  of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was elected to chair the committee. Meeks is the first African-American chair in the committee’s history. more
On Veterans Day, Woodmere resident Max Marcus, who served in the Navy as a petty officer, third class, was inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans’ Hall of Fame by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the Five Towns. more
“Did you know?” Daniel Foster, a senior at Hewlett High School, asks the audience of his monthly radio show of the same name. Since October, Foster’s show has aired on Irie Jam 93.5 FM, a Caribbean-style station based in Rosedale, Queens, with DJ Wayne “Oxtail” Jackson, once a month at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights. more
More than 1,000 Nassau County women from kids to seniors are expected to participate in the third annual Great Challah Bake on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6:45 p.m. at the Sands Atlantic Beach at 1395 Beech St. in Atlantic Beach. more
More than any other Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashana has a host of symbols and images bound up with its very identity. But of all these iconic images, Jewish tradition has identified one in particular as central to the day’s very essence. more
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