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The two most adventurous years of my life

Thirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a bright-red engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning. more

9/2/21

Hadia Choudhry, foreground, left, and Saher Din, both of Valley Stream, interviewing each other for biographies that they wrote at the recent Hofstra High School Summer Journalism Institute. At back were Mariam Faisal, of Queens, left, and Emaan Tehseen, of Valley Stream.

Hofstra University journalism institute opens high-schoolers' minds

Nine Nassau County students, including four from Valley Stream, one from Elmont and one from Freeport, took part in this year’s Hofstra University High School Summer Journalism Institute, learning firsthand the ins and outs of the media industry. more

By Matthew Cudahy | 8/4/21

The new SST’s future depends on Kennedy Airport

Here’s a quick note to United Airlines. You know that deal you recently announced with Boom Supersonic that has you placing options to purchase 15 Overture aircraft, the still-to-be-built supersonic transport planes? more

By Ronald J. Rosenberg | 7/29/21

It isn’t your grandma’s senior prom night

Prom 2021 is an act of faith. It is kids needing to shake off more than a year of lockdowns, shutdowns, sickness and isolation. It is a down payment on good times ahead after an avalanche of disappointments. more

6/3/21

What is Memorial Day about, if not memories?

Memorial Day events will take on new urgency this year as a kind of collective anti-insurrection rally. more

5/27/21

Maintaining a teacher’s freedom to teach

It was recently reported that a group of Rockville Centre parents accused a high school social studies teacher of criticizing police during class, and wanted her to be reprimanded. The district superintendent . . . more

By Alan Singer | 5/6/21

The story that haunts me all these years later

I covered the Bellmore-JFK High School Homecoming parade in the fall of 2004. It was a sunny day, full of carefree teenagers. I could never have imagined then that that day would haunt me still. more

5/6/21

Oldies but goodies have the right stuff

I married an older man, and this week he’s turning 75. When we met, I was 14 and he was 15. more

4/8/21

Let’s allow schools to decide on activities

As difficult as the coronavirus pandemic has been for all of us, our children were the least equipped to handle the sudden disruption of their daily lives and routines. Ripped from in-school learning . . . more

By Steve Rhoads | 3/25/21

Say goodbye to ‘Lady’ on our sports pages

Late last month, we at the Herald were jolted when a senior at Kennedy High School, in Bellmore, called on school officials — and the local media — to stop referring to girls’ sports teams at Kennedy as the “Lady Cougars.” more

10/22/20

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