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Partly Cloudy Jones Beach Boardwalk Café set for mid-June opening
Other improvements ready for use during the 2018 summer season
After 14 years in dormancy, the Boardwalk Café will re-open for business in mid-June.
New York state reviews contractor fraud claims
Hope for Hurricane Sandy victims
There may be hope for residents who were victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and now believe they were victims of contractor fraud this year.
Long Islanders show love to Wantagh parks
I Love My Park Day brings volunteers to Jones Beach, Twin Lakes Preserve
On May 5, about 200 Long Islanders helped beautify and prepare Jones Beach and the Twin Lakes Preserve for the summer season as part of the seventh annual I Love My Park Day
Wantagh budget, capital reserve fund proposition pass
A perfect storm for second lowest voter turnout in 15 years
The majority of Wantagh voters passed the 2018-19 Wantagh School District budget and the district's capital reserve fund proposition.
Accused here, arrested in Texas
Contractor Cody Lawrence faces 36 complaints of post-Sandy fraud
A contractor facing 36 consumer fraud complaints that he defrauded Hurricane Sandy victims out of millions of dollars was arrested in Texas last month and charged with contractor fraud. Among his alleged local victims were Wantagh and Seaford homeowners.
Seaford-based Long Island Broncos introduce non-contact football
Citing a nationwide decline in youth football participation, the Long Island Broncos has announced that it will phase out full-contact football for children ages 5 to 7 by 2020.
Wantagh knockout artist inducted into New York State Boxing Hall of Fame
On April 29, former Wantagh resident Charley Norkus II was inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame 22 years after his death.
Wantagh's Mandalay Elementary School celebrates STEAM
Mandalay Elementary School students and their families had a night filled with science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities on April 24.
Truck fire temporarily closes Sunrise Highway near Wantagh Parkway
The Wantagh Fire Department extinguished a tractor-trailer fire on May 14 minutes before sunrise on Sunrise Highway near the Wantagh State Parkway.
Fire engulfs roof at 7-11 on Sandhill Road in Wantagh
About 125 firefighters — including 75 from Wantagh — responded to a fully-engulfed fire at the 7-11 on Sandhill Road in Wantagh early this morning, bringing the raging blaze under control in just over an hour.
Randi Kreiss
Nipping sexism in the bud, all over again
Does the latest sexist outrage mean we have to start burning our bras again?
Scott Brinton
Nutrition 101, or how to save the planet
In my two and a half decades of writing on the environment and pondering solutions to the pressing sustainability issues that our planet — and civilization — face, I never imagined that the answer to reversing our destructive course might lie in nutrition education.