The Windsor Avenue Bible Church in Oceanside is hosting a community dinner with ham and all the trimmings on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. Enjoy a nice meal, fellowship and new friends. RSVP … more

Giving during this holiday season can began at the sixth annual Five Towns Community Center toy drive. Unwrapped toys for boys and girls and gift cards that can be used at local stores can be brought to either the Five Towns Community Center, 270 Lawrence Ave, room 340 at the Lawrence Elementary School at 195 Broadway or the Five Towns Karate School, located at 298 Lawrence Ave., all in Lawrence. more

Get them while they last, the Valley Stream Fire Department Engine Company No. 2 is holding a Christmas tree fundraiser sale this holiday season, with the proceeds to benefit the company members’ … more

Just in time for the holiday season, Lynbrook resident Frank Scafuri has released a holiday tune. more

Nassau County police revealed on Jan. 10 that the Christmas Eve heist at the Oceanside Costco had netted the two suspects in the investigation around $92,000 in jewelry. Along with the dollar … more

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and myself, please accept our warmest greetings of the season. As we begin our plans for another year of opportunities and progress, let’s first be grateful for … more

The story is told of a notable journalist who traveled a great distance to interview a distinguished scholar. Upon arrival at his home, he was taken into the man’s study, where he said, “Doctor, … more

All through the Advent season we are asked to reflect on our need to prepare and to be prepared, to make ourselves ready to receive the Light of the World into our lives, because on Christmas Day we … more

’Twas the night of first Christmas, and through the stable, not a creature was stirring, though they were able. I arranged the hay by the manger with care, and prayed that Emmanuel soon … more

It seems to me that every year, I am tempted to start this Christmas message with the same opening sentence: “these are difficult times we live in.” Maybe I’m a “glass-half-full-kind-of-person,” or maybe it’s just true. At any given time, a lot of God’s children are struggling here and all over the world. The fact of the matter is that life itself is a struggle, all of us feel like Job sometimes, victimized by circumstances or by choices we or someone else has made, Whether we live in a comfortable home or on the street, pretty much all of us know what it means to struggle, what it means to fail, what it means — as the apostle Paul so famously said — “to do the things that we do not want to do.” It is part of the human condition. more