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Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages joins lawmakers and supporters like Assemblyman David Weprin, at left, and state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, at right, to call on her colleagues to support the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. The measure — currently included in the senate’s One House budget — would provide tax credits to local news outlets, so they can keep local reporters on the ground and covering communities.

Lawmakers, publishers rally in Albany to save local news

An advocacy group determined to save local news in New York rallied in Albany in an effort to bring more lawmakers to their cause. more

STAFF REPORT | 3/25/24

On Saturday, march for our lives

I don’t know about you, but there hasn’t been one day since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when I haven’t cried or given my kids a suffocatingly tight hug. more

By Gina Sipley | 6/9/22

Aija Dorsey, 83, fled Latvia when Russia invaded in 1940. She came to Temple Emanu-El on Monday to support Ukraine.

Turning out in Long Beach for the Ukrainian people

Eighty-three-year-old Aija Dorsey sat toward the rear of the large chapel at Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach Monday night, holding a colorful sign that read, “Latvia for free … more

By James Bernstein | 3/10/22

Alistair Wright, 16, hosted a pickleball tournament on Sunday that benefited the local nonprofit NOSH. The event has raised $4,300 for the organization so far.

Friends Academy teen raises funds for NOSH

A pickleball tournament held over the weekend raised more than $4,300 for a local food pantry in need of help. Alistair Wright, 16, a junior at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, is the founder of … more

By Annemarie Durkin | 1/14/22

Pickleball raises funds for NOSH

A pickleball tournament held over the weekend raised more than $4,300 for a local food pantry in need of help. Alistair Wright, 16, a junior at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, is the founder of … more

By Annemarie Durkin | 1/6/22

The "Rally To Reopen Schools in September" was held outside of the legislative building in Mineola on June 20 to urge the state to reopen schools in September.

'Rally To Reopen Schools in September' held in Mineola

Chants of "Classrooms not Class Zooms" and "Classrooms are essential" could be heard through the crowd of roughly 50 parents and teachers from across Long Island that gathered on Franklin Avenue in … more

By Matthew Ferremi | 6/20/20

Dozens of environmental activists, joined by City Councilwoman Anissa Moore, took to the boardwalk last Sunday to call on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other elected officials to stop the plan to build a natural gas pipeline from New York Harbor to New Jersey that they said would pose a threat to coastal communities.

Protesters rally to stop pipeline

Dozens of people rallied on the boardwalk last Sunday to protest the “Williams Pipeline,” calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other elected officials to halt plans to construct a natural gas … more

By Bridget Downes | 5/3/19

TPS recipients and their supporters came to the Glen Cove Knights of Columbus on Sunday to welcome the Journey for Justice bus, which was on week eight of its 12-week trip around the country.

Glen Cove immigrants make ‘Journey for Justice’

This is a continuation of the Herald Gazette’s immigration series, “No place to call home.” On the morning of Oct. 7, dozens of local families cheered in the parking lot of the Glen Cove … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen and Nadya Nataly | 10/11/18

Zoe Eisenstein implored the crowd to vote for “orange” candidates — those who support gun control.

North Shore youth rally for gun control

Members of the Long Island chapter of Students Against Gun Violence, which was formed in the aftermath of the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., to advocate for gun control, were joined … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 8/2/18

Hundreds of medical center staff rallied on June 21 calling on Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield to relent in failed contract negotiations between the insurance agency and South Nassau Communities Hospital.

South Nassau holds rally amid Blue Cross dispute

State, county and town elected officials as well as roughly 100 medical center staff rallied outside South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside on June 21 and called on state lawmakers to … more

By Peter Belfiore | 7/6/18