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Construction resumes on the district’s administration building, after the school board approved spending an additional $233,000 to improve the structure’s foundation.

Board of Ed OKs $233,000 more for new building

After the Board of Education voted against a change order on March 31 that would increase construction costs on the administration building by $233,400, the body reversed the decision at its meeting a week later, as work now resumes on the structure with the price hike in place. more

By Ben Strack | 4/28/16

LIRR train schedules will be adjusted this weekend to allow for important infrastructure upgrades.

LIRR weekend travel alert

Train schedules on the Babylon, Far Rockaway, Hempstead, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson and West Hempstead branches will be adjusted on the weekend of April 15 and 16 to allow for important … more

By Rebecca Anderson | 4/12/16

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has designated an 81,000-acre site (pictured in green) in federal waters off the coast of Long Beach for potential wind energy development. It could be a decade before wind turbines are built, however, pending a lengthy review and approval process. Courtesy Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Feds identify offshore wind farm site

Nearly a decade after plans for an offshore wind farm several miles off Jones Beach were scuttled, federal officials announced last week that an area off the coast of Long Beach has been identified … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 3/30/16

LIRR schedule changes go into effect on Friday, March 4.

LIRR track work will affect weekend service

Service on the Long Island Rail Road’s Babylon and West Hempstead branches will be impacted by overnight track work beginning at 11 p.m. on Friday, March 4, ending at 5 a.m. and on Saturday, March 6, at 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. more

By Rebecca Anderson | 3/1/16

LIRR schedule changes go into effect on March 7.

LIRR announces schedule changes

The Long Island Rail Road will be implementing new train schedules beginning Monday, March 7 on several South Shore branches. The schedule adjusts some off-peak and weekend trains because of ongoing and upcoming construction projects. more

2/26/16

It’s a new year, so let’s get started

Twenty-sixteen is a new year full of possibilities. We have a lot to do. Is it just me, or do people seem worried? more

1/14/16

After Sandy, progress, but we’re not fully restored

Hurricane Sandy was special –– in a wicked sort of way. Like no other storm since the Long Island Express of 1938 . . . more

10/22/15

Sister Lynn Caton, a pastoral associate at Sacred Heart Parish in North Merrick, started a food garden for the first time this summer in large part to help protect the environment. She was inspired to act by Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on the environment, “On Care for Our Common Home.”

Taking the pope's message to Sacred Heart Parish

Sister Lynn Caton, a pastoral associate in charge of social ministries at Sacred Heart Parish in North Merrick, began a garden for the first time this summer. It’s a small patch of greenery under her office window, with a handful of bushy tomato plants and soaring sunflowers. There’s also a bird feeder and a clear-plastic cross. She calls it her little “corner of heaven.” more

By Scott Brinton | 9/23/15

The people's pope, a man of science

There’s a wonderful story about St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century champion of the poor, after whom the Roman Catholic Church’s current pope is named. St. Francis, it is said, would stop in his tracks if he . . . more

6/25/15

When a New Yorker writer flies off the handle

The April 6 issue of The New Yorker disappointed me. Therein lay what can only be described as a rambling rant decrying the National Audubon Society, of all organizations. more

4/23/15

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