Forest Road Elementary sixth grader, Jacob Ramirez, has been named the first-place winner in the New York State Association for Bilingual Education Student Art Contest in the grades 6-8 category. …
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By Juan Lasso
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4/5/24
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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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