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Events on Long Island

Exhibits and more... CurrentsAn exhibit highlighting three exciting artists working today: Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Benjamin Edwards and Tom Sanford. All three artists have been shown widely in … more

9/8/10

Events on Long Island (Updated 9/4)

Exhibits and more... CurrentsAn exhibit highlighting three exciting artists working today: Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Benjamin Edwards and Tom Sanford. All three artists have been shown widely in … more

9/2/10

The book club discusses "The Lost Quilter."

Sandel Senior Center book club members celebrate a 10-year collaboration with the Rockville Centre Public Library

The Sandel Senior Center Book Club celebrated its 10-year anniversary last week as Ellen Berman, the librarian from the Rockville Centre Public Library who serves as the liaison to the club, gathered with eight current members over coffee and cake to celebrate the special occasion. more

Tom Steinert | 9/1/10

Librarian-in-training Marissa Wolf, center, and cartoon artist Misako Rocks! were joined by a fan of anime as they welcomed participants to the conference at the library last Saturday.

All things anime

Call it life in cartoon motion. More than 100 people attended Anime Tosho-Con, Long Island's first-ever anime conference last Saturday at the Rockville Centre Public Library, which focused on art forms emanating from the popular animated cartoons on Japanese television. more

Katherine Kollitides | 7/28/10

Book Buddy Kaitlyn Rosenbaum read to a rapt 4-year-old Eva Garcia in the Children's Room of the library

Rockville Centre dives into books

This summer, a wave of reading is again washing over Rockville Centre. The public library’s annual summer reading programs are officially under way, with more than 100 children and teen volunteers already signed up. more

Katherine Kollitides | 7/14/10

Making music: Blues legend Michael Powers is one of many musicians to appear at this weekend’s Barrier Beach Blues Festival.

A weekend of music at the Barrier Beach Blues and Arts Festival

A bit of the Mississippi Delta comes to Long Beach this weekend in the form of the 2nd Annual Barrier Beach Blues and Arts Festival. more

6/23/10

Former Rockville Centre resident Larry Levy, an expert on suburbia, recently spoke about the need to address suburban sustainability.

Suburban studies expert addresses L.I. dysfunction in Rockville Centre talk

This isn’t your children’s suburbs. “This isn’t even the suburbs of your children’s children,” lecturer Lawrence Levy intoned multiple times to a rapt audience that filled the basement room of the Rockville Centre Public Library on the night of June 7. “It’s a bleak picture, but not an unbeatable one. We need to be smart, successful and resourceful.” more

6/16/10

Rockville Centre voters say yes to school, library budgets

Voters in the Rockville Centre school district have approved the 2010-11 school budget of $93.4 million. In unofficial results Tuesday night, the spending plan passed with 2,483 votes, 55 percent of the votes cast, while 2,027 residents voted against it. Despite periods of heavy rain during the day, district officials said the voter turnout was the heaviest since 2006. more

Judy Rattner | 5/18/10

Say 'yes' to Rockville Centre library budget, candidates

The Rockville Centre Public Library is proposing a budget of just over $3 million, 2.8 percent larger than its current spending plan. We encourage residents to support it. more

5/12/10

Events on Long Island

Exhibits and more... Fernando BoteroThis major exhibition showcases one of the most honored Latin American artists working today. Paintings, drawings and monumental sculpture that exemplify … more

5/12/10