Herald Community Newspapers took home nine state awards at the New York Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest over the weekend in Albany.
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4/1/23
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Lawrence High School senior Matthew Sharin was chosen to present his scientific research at the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston, a conference that brings together industry professional and academic experts.
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By Hernesto Galdamez
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11/3/22
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Part seven in an ongoing series.
Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead.
Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/2/18
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Part seven in an ongoing series.Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its …
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By Scott Brinton
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8/2/18
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New York officials say they hope to generate half of the state’s power from renewable sources by 2030. To meet this goal, officials are looking to the recently constructed Block Island offshore wind farm as a model for how renewable energy can power whole communities.
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By Tyler Marko
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10/10/17
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Using Google Earth to track guano stains — a build up of penguin waste — Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway fifth-graders, with the help of their teacher, Lisa Rosenberg and Dr. Heather Lynch, an associate professor of ecology and evolution at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, are locating penguin colonies in Antarctica.
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By Diana Colapietro
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11/30/16
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Installing new directors and officers and honoring high school students who excel in American history were a large part of the 40th annual meeting of the Friends of Rock Hall Museum in Lawrence on June 10.
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By Vanessa Parker
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6/17/15
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Chimpanzee stories invite cheap shots, jokes and memories of J. Fredd Muggs (a regular on “The Today Show”), but the true story of these primates in modern times . . .
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6/11/15
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Science is in everything around us: the way the sun rises, the way our food cooks, cars move, iPhones work, birds chirp, and students learn. Hewlett High School’s science department is highly regarded for its rigorous Advanced Placement classes, and success in competitions.
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By Alison Hagen
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10/29/14
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a statewide Ebola plan on Oct. 16 that called for the coordination of health care, Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to combat a potential spread of the Ebola virus should it cross New York’s borders. He also designated eight hospitals, including Long Island’s North Shore-LIJ, in Nassau County, and Stony Brook University Hospital, in Suffolk, to act as regional centers for treating patients with Ebola.
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By David Weingrad
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10/22/14
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