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As a senior at Mepham High School in Bellmore, I’m excited that ERASE Racism has launched a Long Island-wide public discussion called “How Do We Build a Just Long Island?” more

By Gabriela Daza | 2/8/19

State deserves praise for passing gun measures

The Democratically controlled State Legislature moved on Jan. 29 to protect New Yorkers by enacting common-sense measures to combat gun violence. more

2/7/19

Dueling protest narratives left me baffled

The contradictory narratives of the Jan. 18 confrontation in Washington, D.C., between a teen in a Make America Great Again hat and an indigenous rights activist led to a week of fury and misunderstanding. more

By Erik Hawkins | 1/31/19

What you do in high school doesn’t stay in high school

If you think what you do in high school doesn’t matter, perhaps the Brett Kavanaugh hearings will change your mind. That is my message to our children and grandchildren. more

10/5/18

Long Beach lifeguards John Burke, far left, and Francis Nicpon, second from right, in Wilmington, N.C., with two other volunteers, Matt LeMasters and Christy Edwards of World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that served meals to first responders and victims of Hurricane Florence.

Long Beach lifeguards help Florence victims

Long Beach lifeguard Francis Nicpon was just 12 when Hurricane Sandy hit, but he still remembers the floodwaters rising to the third floor of his family’s home in the Canals, and how a raging fire … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 9/27/18

The enemies at our gates: gangs and pushers

Since last October, Nassau County police have identified the bodies of six teenagers who were hacked to death with machetes by members of the El Salvadoran gang MS-13. After the most recent discovery of remains . . . more

9/6/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.

Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

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. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, bottom, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists. Both are on the staff of their student newspaper, The Eagle Eye.

Inside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting

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 … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Michael Otterman, formerly of Merrick, and the author of two books on the Iraq War, was among the many speakers at the recent Hofstra University High School Summer Journalism Institute, which is co-directed by Heralds Executive Editor Scott Brinton.

Former Merokean Michael Otterman authored two books on war

Editor’s note: Choudhry, 17, recently graduated as salutatorian from Elmont Memorial High School. She wrote the following during Hofstra University’s annual High School Summer Journalism … more

By Laila Choudhry | 8/1/18

Dillon Razler, left, and Patrick Morris were named the Class of 2018’s valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

LBHS val and sal look toward the future

Long Beach High School will be hold its 95th annual commencement ceremony at 5 p.m. on Friday at the Long Beach Middle School on Veteran’s Memorial Field. The school announced in November that … more

By Elizabeth Thompson | 6/21/18