The summer months mean outdoor activities — going to the beach, the lake or the pool, working up a sweat on the softball diamond or the volleyball court, and cooking on the grill.
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6/10/11
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Humbled and honored, Oceanside Summer Gazebo Readings founder Tony Iovino received the Long Island Writers’ Guild Community Service Award last Sunday at Manor East in Massapequa.
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Tom Steinert
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12/8/10
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As the Rockville Centre Summer Playground finished its season on Aug. 12, a Herald photographer captured campers during the annual farewell picnic, held at the Recreation Center this year, instead of its former venue at Centennial Park on Mill River.
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8/18/10
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Nearly 1,000 Rockville Centre Summer Playground campers, family members and friends gathered at the Rec Center on the night of July 28 to celebrate the summer in style.
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Katherine Kollitides
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8/4/10
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The sounds of gleeful screams reverberate across the drenched soccer fields as bathing suit-clad youngsters tear through sprinklers set up across the grass.
For the 420 campers enrolled in the Summer Playground at the Rec Center, this is no ordinary Friday — it is Sprinkler Day, a weekly celebration of all things cooling and wet.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/21/10
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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.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/14/10
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Even though multitasking is king, there are so many things we can’t do at the same time: drink a martini and ride a roller coaster, text and take a shower, watch a movie and mow the lawn, run a marathon and flip pancakes.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/24/10
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We all think it: Memorial Day symbolizes the start of summer. For many Americans it means dusting off the grill and making the pool water sparkle. It means big sales at the stores. It means hot dogs, baseball and a three-day weekend. It means that spring is on its way out and the hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer are on the way in.
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5/28/10
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Discussions between Rockville Centre village and school district representatives have so far failed to produce progress on the renewal of a longstanding agreement to share expenses and avoid duplication of services, and school officials expressed their frustration and disappointment at the Dec. 9 Board of Education meeting.
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Judy Rattner
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12/16/09
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