Freeport High School senior Aldalisis Collado, 18, perused the colorful arrangement of dresses until she finally found the one. Selecting a sparkly black and silver, strapless chiffon dress, she held …
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By Nadya Nataly
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4/11/19
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Valley Stream Mayor Ed Fare presented a $500 contribution to the Hispanic Brotherhood after learning about recent thefts at the agency’s main office in Rockville Centre.
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1/2/19
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In Spike Lee’s masterful “BlackkKlansman,” based on the memoir by Ron Stallworth, Colorado Springs’ first African-American police officer and undercover detective, we see racism in its most ugly form . . .
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12/14/18
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The Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre is still recovering financially after a total of $2,600 was taken from a locked cabinet in the organization’s office on two separate occasions in October, employees said.
“It’s been very traumatic,” said Marguerite Keller, co-director of the Brotherhood.
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By Ben Strack
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12/6/18
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A sea of eager faculty was selling red, black and white school spirit apparel, and volunteer students in yellow T-shirts were directing slightly lost parents to their children’s classrooms. South …
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By Sara Whitman
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10/11/18
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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month the Freeport Memorial Library welcomed Los Amigos del Amargue, a Dominican bachata group from Freeport on Sept. 30. As the sounds of the Caribbean came to …
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10/5/18
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Kianny Antigua stumbled into writing while attending LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City in the early 2000s. The now Dartmouth College adjunct professor and author of “Caléndula” had …
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By Nadya Nataly
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10/5/18
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— AOH Irish Day Parade & Festival
The AOH Irish Day Parade & Festival will begin at Washington Boulevard and West Beech Street at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6. There will be vendors, rides, …
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10/4/18
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“We Latinos, we are a nation without a face,” said Carmen Piñeyro, a trustee on the Freeport Village board, as she opened her speech as keynote speaker of a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration on Sept. 21 at the Roosevelt Fire Department.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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9/27/18
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The Village of Freeport is celebrating all that is Latino during Hispanic Heritage Month, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and the epicenter of the events is the Freeport Memorial Library.
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By Nadya Nataly
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9/27/18
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