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Overcast North Bellmore schools budget passes on second try
The North Bellmore School District’s $57.2 million budget passed easily on Tuesday, as 64 percent of voters supported the spending plan — which was reduced by $75,000 after the budget initially failed to pass in May.
Bellmore Holocaust survivors recall and return generosity
In 1965, while living in a cramped Queens home with her husband, daughter and parents, a young Hungarian, Livia Horovitz, gave birth to Debbie. Ever since then, Livia and her husband, Tibor, have …
North Bellmore mother fights new opt-out penalties
Jeanette Deutermann, a North Bellmore mother of two, plans to spend her summer mobilizing parents against new state penalties for schools where students opt out of standardized tests. Deutermann, who …
Brooks pushes school tax relief plan in North Bellmore
State Sen. John Brooks pushed on June 8 for a bill that would change the rules by which districts receive state aid, and, Brooks said, could bring property tax relief to Long Islanders. Brooks’ …
Get ready for the Bellmore Striders Independence Day Run
On July 4, for the 36 th time, the Bellmore Striders will bring the Independence Day Run to downtown Bellmore.
COLUMN
Graduation may make you feel sad — but not so fast!
It’s the last day of school. I see tears streaming down my peers’ cheeks. But why?
Convicted Merrick doctor’s office shutters
Dr. Michael Belfiore was convicted of improperly prescribing opioids to patients, and causing two overdose deaths on May 23. Last week, his remaining staff was copying files and wrapping up patient …
Hofstra professor and student use chemistry to tackle the opioid epidemic
A chemistry professor at Hofstra University and his pupil are conducting research in forensic science to alleviate the burden of the nation-wide opioid epidemic.
Editorial
Stop politicizing the fight against MS-13
Bodies started turning up in South Shore parks and woodlands in the past year and a half: teenagers hacked to death with machetes or shot in the face by members of the ruthless El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
Editorial
Town needs special elections, not appointees
Only two members of the current Town of Hempstead Board were elected to their posts without first having been appointed to them. That’s it. Two.
John C. O'Connell
Reflections on a reunion
After a college class a very long while ago, I sat in the late morning drinking Guinness in an old pub on Grafton Street, in Dublin, with author Alec Reid, a close friend of Samuel Beckett . . .
Randi Kreiss
Under the volcano in Hawaii and Washington
Kilauea is blowing her top. These last weeks we have witnessed, from afar, a pyrotechnic extravaganza on the Big Island of Hawaii.