Endorsing the proposed 2017-18 Lynbrook School District budget is an easy call. more

Former Malverne resident Cathy Leone is an Ellen DeGeneres fan, so when the national talk show host announced a contest to find her biggest New York fans, she immediately took interest. more

Ellen Cook, Sandy Leonard, Mary Wagner and Johanna Livesay gasped when Regina Pinto described Henry Senter, her ancestor and a patriot of the American Revolution. Senter was 16 when he fought in the … more

Here's what's going on in and around Valley Stream this week. more

We are close to the end of what has been a historic year. So many things happened affecting so many people . . . more

As the St. Raphael Parish church chorus sang, congregants from different churches and synagogues joined in harmony on Nov. 20 at the 35th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving service. more

Judge Ellen Greenberg, who grew up in North Woodmwere and is a gradute of Heweltt High School, has 31 years of experience in Family Court. more

Ellen Coook, one of the Wantagh Preservation Society’s trustees and program chairwoman, was 26 years old in September of 1966 when the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road station was moved to another location in the community. The little red house, built in 1885, was slated for destruction when the Babylon branch was being elevated throughout the mid-20th century. But thanks to Margaret Aiken — whose civic group, the earliest incarnation of the Preservation Society that was colloquially referred to as Margy and her Steamrollers — the station was donated to the new nonprofit group and moved a few blocks north to 1700 Wantagh Ave. more

Family Residences and Essential Enterprises welcomed former State Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg on June 28, who presented a $10,000 donation to the FREE Players Drum Corps, which could help send them to the world championships in 2018. more

Of course it was awesome, because everything is awesome, because awesome is the go-to word when you’re a 13-year-old who is, well, awesome. Last week, my granddaughter and I and her iPhone . . . more