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Four Woodmere Middle School students qualified for the national History Fair competition in June. From left Madison Honig, Sydney Honig, Madeline Heyman and Michael Heyman.
Hewlett-Woodmere students advance to national contest
Cooperstown is home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and is considered the historical beginning place for the national pastime, so five Hewlett-Woodmere School District students made themselves … more
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Mother and daughter. Beatrice Glaubman, left, and Marcia Hain Engle in an undated photo.
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Marcia Hain Engle was a poet before she could write. Her mother, Beatrice Glaubman, would write down her poems in what she called Marcia’s “Garden of Verses” starting when she was four or five. “She was a little concerned with me at first,” said Marcia, with a little laugh. “The poems could be about life and death and people I loved who had died. She wanted me to write about sunshine and flowers.” more
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Strong women will not be silenced
When acclaimed poet and memoirist Maya Angelou described the makings of a great woman in her 1995 poem “Phenomenal Woman,” she wrote of a female spirit that . . . more
Marge Rogatz with her husband, Peter, center, at ERASE Racism’s annual banquet last year.
Lawrence native involved in the civil rights battle
Contemporary battles and the unearthing of racist language thought dormant marks this February’s commemoration of Black History Month as the struggle and dedication of Civil Rights leaders are remembered in the shadow of the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. more
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A shifting vision of black America
Perhaps no show on American television addresses the perilous times in which we find ourselves more vividly than ABC’s “Black-ish,” which . . . more
Democrat Laura Gillen pulled off a historic victory in the Town of Hempstead on Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Anthony Santino. She declared victory along with Laura Curran, of Baldwin, who won the county executive's seat. Gillen voted at Hewitt Elementary School in her hometown of Rockville Centre early on Tuesday.
Gillen makes history as first Democratic Hempstead supervisor in more than a century
For the first time in more than a century, the Town of Hempstead will have a Democratic supervisor. Laura Gillen, a Rockville Centre attorney, defeated incumbent Republican Anthony Santino on Tuesday night by roughly 2,000 votes. more
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Country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. In the crowd was 24-year-old Rockville Centre native Peter Meehan. Above, the concert venue last Friday.
Rockville Centre native ‘grateful’ to survive America’s deadliest shooting
The death toll was climbing steadily on Monday, less than 24 hours after a lone gunman opened fire with an assault weapon from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. In the crowd at the Aldean concert was Peter Meehan, 24, of Rockville Centre, who flew to Las Vegas last Thursday to attend the three-day music festival with his girlfriend. more
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Young historians Madeline Heyman, left, and Madison Honig, seventh-graders at Woodmere Middle School did well in regional and state history competitions this year.
Achieving academic success in and out of the classroom
Woodmere Middle School seventh-graders Madeline Heyman and Madison Honig placed fourth in the New York State History Day competition in upstate Cooperstown last month. more
History Day champions Rachel and Jonny Miller at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown before the interviews for the judging session at state competition.
Double the excellence in history, again
While twins can often mean double trouble, one family in Woodmere, the Millers, represent the opposite. more
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The women at last year’s Women Safety Seminar hosted by Connie Pacheco, center, president of Recoveries R US of Inwood.
Battling domestic abuse, helping victims to survive
Recoveries R US, an Inwood-based organization that educates future New York state-certified alcohol-and substance-abuse counselors, will host a Women Safety Seminar on March 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. in honor of Women’s History Month. more
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