Students across Long Island can nominate their teachers for a special-end-of-year class party and $500 sponsorship check when they submit an essay to the 8th annual Above and “BEE”yond …
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By Nicole Wagner
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2/2/24
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Herald Community Newspapers took home nine state awards at the New York Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest over the weekend in Albany.
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STAFF REPORT
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4/1/23
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Skyler Placella is a typical James Vernon Middle School fifth-grader, but for less than a minute he becomes a “special energy agent” in a public service announcement he created with his family. Skyler won first place among 207 videos submitted by fifth- through eighth-grade students in PSEG’s Earth Day Video PSA Contest on April 22.
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By Laura Lane
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4/30/21
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The Merrick Chamber of Commerce is inviting local children to participate in its first-ever virtual Halloween costume contest.
Members will judge costumes and award prizes to children ages …
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10/15/20
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A young writer at South Side High School earned high recognition for her work over the summer.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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10/8/20
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The Herald Community Newspapers came up big in the New York Press Association’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest, earning 18 awards, including five first-place honors, and placing fourth among …
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Staff Report
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8/24/20
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Baldwin High School student Dylan Pigott, of Ms. Hughes’ AP Language and Composition class, recently won the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 34th Annual Student Poetry Contest 2020 for his …
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7/22/20
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Hundreds of spectators and contestants gathered at Peter’s Clam Bar on a sun-soaked Sunday afternoon for the establishment’s sixth annual clam-eating contest to benefit firefighters.
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By Mike Smollins
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8/15/19
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When her friend, Taliyah Baptiste, 9, was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a rare tumor that forms at the base of the brain, fourth-grader Laiyla Salome-Diaz,9, of New …
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By Nadya Nataly
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4/25/19
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Heavy clouds and the threat of rain didn’t keep more than 100 contestants and spectators from gathering at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park on Aug. 19 for the restaurant’s Clam Eating Contest, a …
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By Peter Belfiore
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8/23/18
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