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The Western Bays provide many recreational opportunities such as kayaking, but scientists say that fertilizer runoff and partially treated sewage effluent threaten the health of the bays. Above, a wetland canal at Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick.

The Western Bays, an ecosystem suffering from all sides

Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm. more

By Stapha Charleme | 6/20/14

Imagining a world free of nuclear arms

Journalism lost one of its greats last week. Jonathan Schell, a best-selling nonfiction author, columnist and correspondent for The New Yorker, Newsday and The Nation, died . . . more

By Scott Brinton | 4/3/14

I was just 17; you know what I mean

The Beatles’ invasion of America 50 years ago this month was a global event, but in 1964, in the Five Towns, it was very much a local story. more

2/14/14

Insults, old as the ages, scrawled on walls

Are we seeing things or are we seeing something? Police are looking for the person or persons who wrote anti-Semitic epithets . . . more

1/31/14

Grand opening: Royalton debuts in Lawrence

After months of renovation following Hurricane Sandy, The Lawrence Yacht and Country Club has emerged as stately and magnificent as ever. more

1/16/14

Poverty — the story of us all

The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished. more

10/3/13

Dr. Keith Metzger, far right, one of Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s first professors, teaches anatomy. Here he was pictured with a class in the school’s state-of-the-art laboratory.

Rethinking medical school

Seated in his expansive, brightly lit office on the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s second floor, Dr. Lawrence Smith, the school’s founding dean, appears at home, a smile etched across his face as he speaks of the school’s role in transforming medical education. more

By Scott Brinton | 7/23/13

Officials broke ground on a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School last Thursday. Celebrating were, from left, Kemp Hannon, New York state senator; Michael Dowling, president and CEO of the North Shore-LIJ Health System; Dr. Lawrence Smith, the medical school’s founding dean; Stuart Rabinowitz, Hofstra University president; and Dean Skelos, the State Senate majority coalition leader.

Hofstra’s medical school to double in size

The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads. Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school. more

By Scott Brinton | 6/12/13

Protect the bays — fund the Bay Park pipe

Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility. more

6/6/13

All Island is still the village’s sole provider of taxi service, at least for the next 60 days.

Still waiting for a cab

At a public hearing on Monday night, the village Board of Trustees agreed to postpone a decision on whether Village Car Service will be allowed to operate in Rockville Centre. The session was … more

By John Maher | 6/5/13

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