49.0°,
A Few Clouds Glen Cove City School District begins preparing budget for next school year
At the Glen Cove City School District Board of Education meetings in January and on Feb. 10, the draft budget for the 2021 to 2022 school year was presented.
Glen Cove St. Patrick’s Day Parade cancelled again
The annual Glen Cove St. Patrick’s Day Parade, run by Glen Cove Parade Inc. scheduled for March 21, has been canceled due to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.
Fundraiser for NOSH, North Shore Soup Kitchen a success
An event by the community, for the community
In keeping with Valentine’s Day, area residents had the chance to express their love for one another at a fundraiser called Share the Love on Feb. 14. Held on Zoom, it benefited NOSH, a program of the North Shore Soup Kitchen, and collected over $3,500. “It was magical,” said Stephanie Sobel, a producer of the event.
Ten-year-old teams up with local restaurants for YouTube video
A Glen Cove chicken Parmesan made by passing the spoon
This video was like no other. The young chef, who has been cooking an array of foods, from octopus to chicken potpie, from Greek recipes to desserts, on his YouTube channel, “Chef Panagioti Karathanasis,” has garnered almost 2,000 subscribers. For the video, he teamed up with chefs from well-known restaurants across the city to make a classic chicken Parmesan.
Another snow day in Glen Cove
Glen Covers woke up to snow falling from the sky, landing atop the snow that was already covering the covering the ground from the Nor’easter earlier this month.
Glen Cove High School graduate Nick Cavallone is flying high in the Air Force
Nick Cavallone is soaring to new heights in his career with the U.S. Air Force, as he prepares to teach the next generation of the “world’s greatest pilots.”
Nurse pods expand learning spaces at Glen Cove schools
Parked outside the elementary school buildings of Gribbin, Connolly and Landing are nurse pods. These trailers are equipped with everything nurses will need to treat students who are feeling unwell.
Suozzi pushes for repeal of SALT cap
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi has been fighting relentlessly to restore the full federal income tax deduction for state and local taxes, capped at $10,000 by former President Trump in his 2017 tax reform package. The SALT cap, which includes property taxes, has hit Long Islanders hard.
Reflecting on suicide prevention on the North Shore
Question, persuade and refer. Those were the three words highlighted in a Tuesday night virtual class hosted by the Bayville Free Library, where Barbara Tedesco and Gayle Parker Wright of United Health Care led participants through a technique called QPR that could save someone from dying by suicide.
Gaughran seeking state regulation of LIPA
State Sen. Jim Gaughran, a Democrat from Northport whose district includes Sea Cliff, Glen Head and Glenwood Landing, introduced legislation in the Senate on Jan. 26 to restore oversight control of …
Lia Leone elected new G.C. Board of Education president
After Monica Alexandris-Miller resigned from her position as the Glen Cove City School District Board of Education president for health reasons, Lia Leone, the vice president, became the board’s new president. Karen Furguson, a trustee, was then elected to become the vice president.
Glen Cove City officials ask Councilwoman Marsha Silverman to resign
Glen Cove Mayor Tim Tenke and other members of the City Council recently sent a letter to Councilwoman Marsha Silverman, asking her to resign if her wife, Roni Epstein, does not withdraw a legal …
Editorial
Vaccine distribution needs improvement
The rollout of New York state’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution has been, at times, disorganized, even chaotic, but in fairness, the state has received a mere 300,000 doses per week, while the need is significantly greater than that . . .
Scott Brinton
Finding peace again, post-Trump
We lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we? Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to . . .
Op-Ed
How I almost got hacked
It happened as, I assume, many of these things do: It was a busy day, I was working at home, and the cellphone rang.
Randi Kreiss
Vaccine for teachers would give us a shot in the arm
We need to let teachers play through the vaccine line. Single parents should be prioritized as well.
Op-Ed
What happened to civic responsibility?
The events at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and the exhortations by some elected officials leading up to them got me to thinking about civic responsibility and our nation’s future.