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Members of the East Meadow Fire Department marched with community members from their firehouse to Veterans Memorial Park on Sept. 11 to honor those who died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the first responders who have succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses in the years since.

In the early evening of Sept. 11, 2001, Kathy Martinez Walsh and Patricia Magnus Brown, captains of the East Meadow Fire Department’s Rescue 5 Ambulance Company, were stationed at Chelsea Pier … more

By Laura Lane | 9/16/21

Members of the Enlisted Field Advisory Council visit the Ground Zero Memorial, the World Trade Center and FDNY Ladder 10 during their quarterly conference on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2015, in lower Manhattan. During this meeting, members spoke with Sept. 11, 2001, first responders, members of the New York City Fire Department, and with the Director of the Air National Guard, Lt. General Stanley E. Clarke III. Just before the end of the event, General Clarke was invited to join the Order of the Sword. The objectives of the EFAC is to provide enlisted members of the Air National Guard a vehicle to express their concerns on matters that impact ANG members, receive, review and clarify recommendations. (New York Air National Guard / Staff Sergeant Christopher S. Muncy / released)

Victims say anti-Muslim acts continued after Sept. 11

Jijoe Joseph, 42, an emergency doctor who worked at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow from 2016 to 2020, can clearly remember Sept. 11, 2001, and, more so, how much his life changed … more

By Laura Lane | 9/16/21

About a dozen Long Beach, Nassau County and New York state officials and business executives turned out for a ground-breaking ceremony at the Superblock Tuesday.

Officials break ground on Superblock project

There are few people in Long Beach who can remember the last time that a crowd gathered outside a six-acre vacant lot just a few feet from the boardwalk, known to locals as the Superblock. But … more

By James Bernstein | 9/15/21

Members of the Rockville Centre Fire Department served as the color guard at the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa.

Hempstead salutes 9/11 heroes in moving ceremony

Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead … more

By James Bernstein | 9/12/21

James McEniry, a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001, with his grandson, Israel Gomez, 8, at a house that he built in North Carolina.

NYPD officer McEniry, an East Meadow resident, had his mettle tested on Sept. 11

On Sept. 10, 2001, New York Police Department officer James McEniry was at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn teaching a class in chemical emissions. The lifelong East Meadow resident and East Meadow … more

By Laura Lane | 9/9/21

EMFD Ex-Chief Eric Becker was a part of the search-and-rescue teams that combed through the World Trade Center remains after the attacks.

East Meadow ex-chief recalls mayhem on fateful September day

When speaking of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, three-time East Meadow Ex-Chief Eric Becker remembers the East Meadow Fire Department firefighters who died, either at the twin … more

By Laura Lane | 9/9/21

Garden Social opened in East Meadow because Kevin Reilly, center, encouraged his fraternity brother, Bob Russo, right, bottom, to take a chance and open his own business. Reilly, a FDNY firefighter, died on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center.

East Meadow's popular beer garden and restaurant Garden Social exists because of a Sept. 11 hero

Bob Russo, David Boller and James Paloumbis, have a bond that goes back much further than their decision to go into business together with Kevin Liebov, opening East Meadow’s Garden Social in … more

By Laura Lane | 9/9/21

Ready to begin the “Torah procession,” participants gathered to document the occasion.

Torah parade brings shuls together in E.M.

Roughly 100 people marched from North Bellmore to East Meadow last Sunday to celebrate the consolidation of the closed Temple Beth-El of Bellmore and the East Meadow Jewish Center. The 2.6 miles were … more

By Laura Lane | 9/2/21

County Executive Laura Curran presented the Distinguished Medal to East Meadow’s Peter Wenninger.

East Meadow American Legion commander is honored

The East Meadow American Legion commander, Pete Wenninger, was one of five veterans honored with the 2021 Distinguished Service to Veterans Award last Sunday at the 35th annual Salute to Veterans at … more

By Mallory Wilson | 9/2/21

At the 49th Nassau County Ancient Order of Hibernians Feis and Irish Festival, John O’Connell, the Heralds’ former executive editor, will be honored.

Former Heralds editor to be honored at Irish Festival

The 49th Nassau County Ancient Order of Hibernians Feis and Irish Festival is set for Sunday, Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Nickerson Beach in Lido Beach, and this year’s honoree will be John O’Connell, the former executive editor of Herald Community Newspapers, who retired in 2016. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/27/21

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