Oyster Bay Town Councilman Steve Labriola faced backlash Monday after he took to Twitter to voice his opinion on United Airlines’ new gender option, which allows flyers to identify as non-binary …
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By Laura Lane and Alyssa Seidman
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3/29/19
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The LGBT Network awarded Oceanside Middle School’s Gay-Straight Alliance with a $250 grant for the club’s “No Name Calling Week” in January.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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3/7/19
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They look like a bunch of cheery morning people. They were professionally dressed, laughing and casually chatting over a cup of coffee by 7:30 a.m. The Top Notch Team, TNT, networking group has been meeting every Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Imperial Diner on Merrick Road in Freeport since 2016.
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By Nadya Nataly
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2/8/19
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Herald Community Newspapers hosted a re-launch party for the Fortune 52 column, written by Beverly Fortune, at a networking event at The Loft By Bridgeview in Island Park on Dec. 12. The waterfront venue was alive with cheerful chatter as over 150 guests networked and shopped at the ladies’ “Holiday Night Out.”
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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12/20/18
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Within minutes of dropping her business card in a fish bowl at the entrance of Nawlins Seafood Company on Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport, Dana Drasser Alford, from Oceanside and executive consultant at …
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By Nadya Nataly
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9/4/18
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While tens of thousands of people are expected to head to Long Beach this weekend for the 28th annual Long Island Pride celebration, organizers addressed potential funding and safety concerns. …
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By Bridget Downes
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6/6/18
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Pride on the Beach is returning to Long Beach next month, and survivors of the Parkland, Fla. shooting will lead the parade as grand marshals.
The three-day festival, organized by the LGBT …
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By Bridget Downes
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5/24/18
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The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, an organization dedicated to feeding the hungry, recently separated from its longtime parent organization in December and became an incorporated nonprofit.
The …
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By Bridget Downes
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4/12/18
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After opening Small Business Alliance chapters in New Jersey and Queens, the Manhattan-based Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce recently came to Lawrence and launched a Five Towns chapter of the networking group.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/18/18
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New York State Assemblywoman Melissa Miller (R-Atlantic Beach) is aiming to raise awareness for the rare genetic disorder that lead to her daughter’s death in 1990 by proposing a resolution in the next Assembly session that begins in January to make October Cockayne Syndrome Awareness Month.
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By Tyler Marko
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10/20/17
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