Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy, residents of Lido Towers say that they have only received half of the money they need to complete repairs at the historic building and are now suing to get the …
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Malcolm Bowman, a professor of marine and atmospheric sciences at Stony Brook University, showed the audience an image of a sand berm above a small village in the Netherlands, a country that is …
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For most sports fans, fantasy leagues provide an entertaining diversion or an opportunity for friendly competition. But for Oceanside native son Seth Young, …
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By John Maher
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9/13/13
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On Monday morning, kids across Long Beach boarded buses for their first day of school. But for West School students and parents, the welcome-back greeting meant something more.
“She was all …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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9/11/13
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After seven months without its community center, North Park residents were thrilled to celebrate the reopening of the MLK Center last Saturday.
“A lot of the community felt like they were at a …
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Alexandra Spychalsky
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9/5/13
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Saying that Long Beach has avoided the fate of Detroit, the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to lift its declaration of a fiscal crisis, after Moody’s Investors Service revised …
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“You should have been in your house nine months ago,” County Legislator Dave Denenberg (D-Merrick) told the crowd. “… [T]here was no earth moving, that was floodwaters. This has to …
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, at the request of the state of New York, approved a 15-day extension to its Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which allows eligible survivors from …
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8/30/13
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The Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre is set to receive thousands of dollars in funding from the United Way of Long Island to help families in the area recovering from Hurricane Sandy.
The …
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The Committee to Help Oceanside Restore After Sandy is up and running. While its acronym, CHORAS, might not be familiar, many of the names of those on the volunteer committee — instituted to make …
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