This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce … more

Nassau County police arrested a Long Beach High School student on Tuesday after written threats against the school were reported earlier this week. The suspect, a 15-year old, was taken into … more

The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more

For the second consecutive year, qualifying homeowners will receive a tax rebate as a result of the Long Beach School district staying within Governor Andrew Cuomo’s tax cap. The school budget … more

The community came together to rally behind Long Beach High School as it celebrated an eventful 2015 homecoming on Oct. 16. Though the Marines we unable to best their competitors from Mepham High … more

Long Beach students joined others from neighboring communities for the annual Surfers Healing Surf Camp held at Lido West Town Beach. The event provided a day of uplifting experiences in the … more

Four Long Beach High School students have been selected to participate in All-State musical ensembles, a prestigious honor that resulted from their New York State School Music Association audition … more

The first day of school got off to a bumpy start last week, as the Long Beach School District struggled through several bus scheduling errors that left some students waiting as long as an hour for … more

The Long Beach School District recently appointed Claude Irwin, a longtime educator with a military background, as the vice principal Long Beach High School. He said that one of the main things … more

Nassau BOCES installed former East Meadow School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon as its new district superintendent at a board meeting on Aug. 20. more