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It's time to enjoy those July Fourth fireworks. The pyrotechnics are always glorious and with the holiday falling midweek – on Wednesday this year – the festivities begin early, so we can partake of holiday merriment throughout the week.
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By Karen Bloom
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6/27/12
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Summer is all about cool swims on sun-drenched days. But without a measure of common sense, swimming — in a backyard pool, at the local public pool or in the ocean — can turn dangerous, even deadly.
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6/21/12
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The end of the school year is upon us. Now that graduations, Moving Up Day ceremonies, locker and desk cleanouts and all those other June rituals are winding down, those lazy days of summer beckon.
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6/21/12
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The sparkling Callaway sisters sing from the heart when they perform at Port Washington's Jeanne Rimssky Theater on Saturday. Other weekend highlights include a poetry workshop at Jones Beach and look at honeybees at Muttowntown Preserve.
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6/13/12
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Round the final bend as you’re headed south on the Loop Parkway into Lido Beach, and you suddenly spot it in the distance –– a more than 10-story, high-powered wind turbine, with its massive rotors spinning in the wind, generating electricity to power a hydrogen-fueling station at the Town of Hempstead’s Department of Conservation and Waterways.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/25/12
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For many Long Islanders, the unofficial kickoff to summer fun begins with a trip to Jones Beach to watch those amazing aerial maneuvers that take over the sky during the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show on Saturday and Sunday.
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By Karen Bloom
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5/23/12
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The sounds of the Great American Songbook can be heard in Long Beach throughout the weekend. Families will enjoy Bug Bonanza, Long Island' Children's Museum's annual bug-fest, while those looking for a spring stroll can explore Muttntown Preserve on an "Early Bird Walk."
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5/16/12
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Second of two parts.
From the early 1970s to the 1990s, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer scoured the sands of Atlantic Beach and Long Beach in search of hypodermic needles and balls of sewage sludge that had congealed on disposable pens and bottle caps.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/2/12
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On its way into John F. Kennedy International Airport and ultimately to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, the retired NASA space shuttle Enterprise flew over Long Beach Friday morning.
Atop …
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By Judy Rattner
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4/27/12
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First of two parts.
In 1965, Morris Kramer, a 30-year-old bachelor who lived in Atlantic Beach with his mother, claimed that the Lawrence Public School District and the State of New York were discriminating against him.
Kramer owned no property and had no children in the schools, so, by state law at the time, he couldn’t vote in a school district election. That, he said, violated his constitutional rights.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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4/18/12
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