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Baldwin High lands toward top of the rankings
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Baldwin Senior High School just shy of the top 25 percent of high schools in the state and in the top 21 percent in the nation, among 18,000 high schools …
LGBTQ+ residents define Pride on their own terms
Residents celebrate how far they’ve come and how far we still have to go
When Baldwin resident Mathew Goberdhan was a freshman student at Potsdam State University of New York, he said he hid his sexuality for fear of being judged. In 2013 he became more open about his …
Baldwinites appointed to police diversity board
Diversity hiring in the crosshairs after report
Baldwinites Shajarah Williams, a community affairs police officer, and George Siberón, executive director of the Hempstead Hispanic Civic Association, have been appointed by Nassau County …
Baldwin moving forward with universal pre-K
State aid may be used to contract externally
New York State has allocated $547,584 for 96 full-day pre-K slots as a part of the 2021-2022 state budget. According to the district, they are “currently finalizing a Request-For-Proposals that …
Open Nassau carries on amid the pandemic
When Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman took office in 2018, he partnered with Nassau County Executive Laura Curran to open and modernize county finances. Investing nearly $1.3 million since …
Black Baldwin residents reflect on BLM progress
Black Baldwin resident, Ashley Johnson, said she has experienced too many encounters of first-hand racism to count. Although Johnson said it is too painful for her to mention the exact experiences in …
Baldwin parents weigh in on masking children in school
As the coronavirus pandemic has stretch into a second year, children have been required to follow social-distancing protocols and wear masks while at school — until last Friday, when the state …
Baldwin sitting on playoff fence
A couple of well-played losses has Baldwin on the bubble to qualify for the Nassau Class A girls’ lacrosse playoffs. The Lady Bruins will look to recover from three-goal defeats to Plainview …
Baldwin holds 14th annual 5K AIDS Cancer Run Walk
Long Islander Richard Brodsky has been HIV positive since 1997, a brain cancer survivor since 2002, and “marathon runner for life.” Hosted by the city of Baldwin, the Richard M. Brodsky …
Memorial Day under an overcast Baldwin sky
Baldwinites gathered on the chilly, cloudy morning of Monday, May 31 at 11 a.m. to remember and honor the fallen at a ceremony at Veteran’s Memorial Plaza in Silver Lake Park hosted by the …
Editorial
Hurricane season starts June 1 — be prepared
The official start of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season is June 1 — next Tuesday. From now through November, we must be prepared for a storm to come out of nowhere and wreak havoc across Long Island, as Tropical Storm Isaias did last summer.
Jerry Kremer
Mixed emotions on my birthday
Thursday is my birthday, and I must confess that I’m approaching it with mixed feelings. I’m not afraid of getting older, because there are only two choices.
Randi Kreiss
What is Memorial Day about, if not memories?
Memorial Day events will take on new urgency this year as a kind of collective anti-insurrection rally.
Jerry Kremer
Saying farewell to a president who put Hofstra on the map
I take note of the impending retirement of Dr. Stuart Rabinowitz, the president of Hofstra University. Having been a trustee of the university for almost 30 years, I have come to understand . . .