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Freeport Public Schools is partnering with Mt. Sinai South Nassau to provide Covid-19 vaccines for 16-18 year olds, only, on April 24, at the vaccination pod at 519 Merrick Rd., in Rockville …
Freeport begins water flush program
The Freeport Water Department has begun its annual water main flushing program, which runs from April 19 to April 26. The flushing program serves as a regular maintenance activity to ensure the …
Power to the people
Collection nets nearly 600 boxes of food for pantry in Freeport
The evening of April 10 was filled with uncertainties in the Hallam home, as Rob and Mary Hallam tried to fall asleep the night before their annual Moving Day celebration, when they planned to haul …
Freeport school district to avoid tax increase in 2021-22
The Freeport School District Board of Education said on April 7 that there would no longer be an increase in the tax levy in the 2021-22 budget because of incoming funds from the state and federal …
The arts are making a comeback in Freeport
LIAC at Freeport prepares 2021 events
The Long Island Art Council at Freeport was organizing its fifth annual Poetry Writing Review, which showcases the poems of students throughout Nassau County, just as the pandemic hit last …
Vaxmobile visits Freeport Recreation Center
The Town of Hempstead’s Vaxmobile, the first mobile Covid-19 vaccination unit in the state, stopped by the Freeport Recreation Center to vaccinate local residents on April 12. The …
Central Islip man charged with murder of Freeport youth
Nassau County Police Department’s Homicide Squad arrested a Central Islip man on April 13 in connection to the death of a 19-year-old Freeport resident, whose body was found in Cow Meadow Park …
Village opts out on marketing of marijuana
While New York state legalized recreational use of marijuana last week, the Village of Freeport, along with Atlantic Beach, Island Park and Rockville Centre, has opted out of the law, and will …
More vaccines arrive for Freeport
Nassau County and Freeport leaders teamed up with Northwell Health to host a three-day pop-up vaccination site at the Zion Cathedral Church from March 30 to April 2. About 800 local residents …
Honoring Patrick Day’s dream
Last year, Joe Higgins, of Freeport, prepped his young athletes at the Freeport Police Athletic League’s boxing program for the 2020 MSG Ring Masters Champions. Three local 22-year-old …
Editorial
Support the Mother Nature Bond Act
At the turn of the 20th century, environmental protection meant preserving wilderness so future generations might know nature as the great environmentalists Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir knew it — bountiful and largely pristine. Some 120 years later . . .
We’ll talk soon, just maybe not tomorrow
One of the most consistent criticisms I have received from my editors at the Herald over the past two and a half years is that I’m too wordy. I tend to let my emotional approach to writing get …
Randi Kreiss
Just another day in America: Eight shot dead
I don’t care if you are numb to this outrage. I don’t care if I’m numb to it. From where I sit, the carnage from gun violence in America, the continuing, ongoing, shocking deaths by gun, move to the head of the must-do list for this new administration.