Scott Brinton, senior editor at Herald Community Newspapers and an adjunct journalism professor in the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication, was named to the inaugural class of the Press Club of Long Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame on Feb. 12. All winners of PCLI’s Outstanding Journalist Award, the group’s highest individual honor, were included in the first class of Hall of Fame inductees. Brinton received the accolade in 2006.
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2/19/14
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After the the area was hit with yet another snowstorm on Thursday, and then again very early Friday morning, meteorologists are predicting 1 to 3 more inches of powdery snow to fall on Saturday afternoon.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/13/14
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The 25-acre Faith Laursen Meroke Preserve, on the Bellmore-Merrick border, is a forest much like most of Long Island used to be. The Meroke Indians camped by its five streams, and Colonists used its tall cedars for ship masts. Legend says during the Revolutionary War British soldiers hid there from marauding Colonials. (Most of the Bellmore-Merrick area farmers were British sympathizers.)
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By Linda Laursen Toscano
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1/31/14
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We’d love to live in the future Nassau County envisioned by Tom Suozzi, full of cool downtowns, a redeveloped Hub (the area surrounding the Nassau Coliseum) and lots of affordable housing for young singles as well as for our seniors.
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10/31/13
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The Herald encourages voters to return Norma Gonsalves to the 13th Legislative District seat, which she has held since 1998.
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10/31/13
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Voters would be hard-pressed to find a candidate for the Nassau County Legislature who is more committed to the job and more active in community affairs than Democrat David Denenberg, of Merrick, who has represented the Bellmore-Merrick community for 13 years.
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10/30/13
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We liked both candidates for Town of Hempstead clerk –– Republican Nasrin Ahmad, of Salisbury, and Democrat Jasmine Garcia-Vieux, of Levittown. But we believe Ahmad is better qualified.
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10/30/13
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As it has in the past, the Herald once again endorses incumbent Kate Murray for Town of Hempstead supervisor without reservation.
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10/30/13
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We liked both candidates for Town of Hempstead clerk –– Republican Nasrin Ahmad, of Salisbury, and Democrat Jasmine Garcia-Vieux, of Levittown. But we believe Ahmad is better qualified.
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10/24/13
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In a race for the Town of Hempstead’s 6th Council District seat, the Herald endorses Republican incumbent Gary Hudes.
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10/24/13
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