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The backpacks contained a variety of school supplies, and were organized by grade level.

Elmont residents were able to get all the supplies their children would need for the new school year at the New Jerusalem Cathedral Inc.’s 10th annual “Backpack and Food Giveaway” … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/16/20

Celebrating the High Holidays during the pandemic

When the novel coronavirus swept across the globe in the weeks before Passover, there was a frenzied panic as we prepared to celebrate the holiday alone, physically distant from our extended family … more

By Chaim Blachman | 9/16/20

Jeanne Evans brought a picture of her brother, firefighter Bobby Evans, taken only a day or two before the attacks.

Franklin Square firefighters remember Sept. 11

It was a solemn evening in Franklin Square last Sunday, when firefighters from the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department and family members who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/16/20

Christian Khan started fourth-grade in person on Sept. 8.

A new kind of school year in Franklin Square and Elmont

Students in Elmont and Franklin Square faced a new kind of school year last week, when they had to wear masks, fill out health surveys and log onto their computers and iPads to help prevent the … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/16/20

A model of the new UBS Arena, slated to open next fall.

Construction continues on Belmont arena, one year after groundbreaking

Hundreds of Long Islanders watched as New York Islanders players and elected officials plunged their shovels into a pile of dirt last September to mark the beginning of construction on the … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/16/20

An Elmont woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a fatal crash at the intersection of Meacham Avenue and B Street last February.

Elmont woman sentenced to 10 years for fatal crash

An Elmont woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Sept. 15 for a fatal crash that killed a 65-year-old man last February. According to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, Julie … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/15/20

Danielle Santos Atkinson, Hofstra University, Women’s Basketball Head Coach

Herald Inside LI webinar to address delay of high school, college sports

Nassau and Suffolk counties have both opted to postpone high school sports until January of 2021, and many colleges have moved their fall sports to the spring, as well. With sports on pause, student-athletes — especially high school seniors — and parents are left not only disappointed, but also with many lingering questions. more

9/15/20

Susan Hutchins was among seven readers to recite the names of Nassau’s 348 9/11 victims at the county cderemony. Hutchins’s son Kevin Colbert, 25, of West Hempstead, died in the World Trade Center attacks.

Nassau County hosts socially distant 9/11 ceremony

In a nearly 40-minute, socially distant ceremony last Friday morning, elected and appointed Nassau officials and families of local 9/11 victims paused to remember the 348 county residents who died in … more

By Scott Brinton | 9/14/20

Phil Alvarez, brother of Sept. 11 first responder Luis Alvarez, who died of 9/11-related cancer in 2019, was the keynote speaker at the Town of Hempstead's annual Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony in Point Lookout. To his right was Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and to his left, Councilman Bruce Blakeman.

Brother of 9/11 hero Luis Alvarez stirs crowd at Town of Hempstead memorial

They gathered in the early-morning light Friday at the Hempstead Town Park at Lido to honor those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and also to salute the thousands . . . more

By James Bernstein | 9/11/20

MeMBers of the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department listened as former Chief John Novello and Chief John Salzman spoke about the lives lost in the Sept. 11 attacks at last year’s ceremony.

Franklin Square 9/11 ceremony to be held with Covid-19 restrictions

The Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department’s annual Sept. 11 ceremony will look a little different this year, as the fire department must adhere to social-distancing guidelines. This … more

By Melissa Koenig | 9/8/20

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