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Overcast NCPD: MS-13 threatens police officers
Commissioner: ‘We will answer that threat.'
Members of the El Salvadoran gang MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, have threatened Nassau County and Village of Hempstead police officers, according to County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. The threats follow the extradition from Maryland this week of Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, known on the street as “the Reaper,” an MS-13 kingpin who is the gang’s highest-ranking member on the East Coast.
Trial for doctor linked to Glen Cove overdose begins
Opening statements, undercover video in Day 1 of Belfiore opioid trial
The Merrick physician facing federal charges of illegally prescribing opioids, and causing the overdose deaths of two South Shore men, began on Wednesday, with prosecutors calling Dr. Michael Belfiore “a dealer, not a healer,” and Belfiore's defense attorney insisting that the doctor is being unfairly prosecuted.
Glen Cove earns AARP’s ‘Age Friendly’ status
‘A place to grow up and grow old’
“The earth is tilting,” said Carol Waldman, the Glen Cove Senior Center’s executive director. “In another two decades, there will be more older people on the face of this earth than …
City borrows $10 million, half for well fixes
On April 10, the Glen Cove City Council approved a plan to bond almost $10 million, nearly doubling its average borrowing over the prior two years. The extra funding was needed to pay for necessary …
Record showing for Heralds in 2017 New York Press Association contest
The Herald Community Newspapers won big in the New York Press Association’s 2017 Better Newspaper Contest, taking home 29 awards — 26 of them for editorial excellence. That was a record …
Local leaders seek day center for homeless
At around 5:50 p.m. every day during the colder months, a group of 10 or so men wait by the side door of the First Presbyterian Church in Glen Cove. Between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., the church …
Legislators approve new state gun law
In the wee hours last Saturday morning, after approving the $168.3 billion state budget, Albany legislators also passed stand-alone gun legislation. The purpose of the bill, which now awaits Gov. …
Council mulls advisory finance committee
For the past two Glen Cove Pre-council meetings at City Hall, councilmembers have discussed a proposal to form a finance committee. The proposal is still in its infancy, as officials talk about the …
Designing Glen Cove’s downtown
“I remember when I moved here nine years ago,” recalled Patricia Holman, a Glen Cove resident, a local business owner and the executive director of the Glen Cove Business Improvement District. …
Amid Prybil woes, Glen Cove officials eye May opening
The fate of Prybil Beach has been uncertain since mid-January, when city officials closed East Beach Road — one of two access roads that lead to the beach — due to dangerous potholes. But the …
Laura Lane
Finding hope among the crowd at the March for Our Lives
Just in front of me, a teenage girl tentatively raised her arm. Then she clenched her fist. We were at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on March 24 . . .
Randi Kreiss
Where’s Josiah Bartlet when we need him?
My secret pleasure? For the past month, I’ve been binge-watching “The West Wing” on Netflix. I drift off to sleep every night in the heady company of C.J., Sam, Josh, Toby, Mrs. Landingham . . .
Alfonse D'Amato
Thank Sen. Richard Shelby for Roy Moore’s defeat
A s polarized and negative as American politics has become, something happened last week that shows there’s still a reservoir of good sense in America’s political system. The U.S. Senate election …