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A Few Clouds Hempstead salutes 9/11 heroes in moving ceremony
Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead …
Hofstra University journalism institute opens high-schoolers' minds
Nine Nassau County students, including four from Valley Stream, one from Elmont and one from Freeport, took part in this year’s Hofstra University High School Summer Journalism Institute, learning firsthand the ins and outs of the media industry.
Hempstead man indicted for Stop & Shop shooting in West Hempstead
A 31-year-old Hempstead man, Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, was indicted on murder, attempted murder and weapons charges on Friday for a shooting at a Stop & Shop in West Hempstead on April …
Sacred Heart teen beats college grads in research contest
A Hempstead teenager has turned an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic into a winning investigative science project. Kaylin Spinelli, of St. Pauls Place, is a junior at Sacred Heart …
An arresting lesson in Nassau County police work
A Signal 15 comes in over the radio: A stolen vehicle used in a felony — perhaps a bank robbery, maybe a kidnapping — has been pulled over. Officers must quickly assess the situation: Is the vehicle occupant armed? Hostile? Ready to run?
Partnering organizations celebrate a new homeowner in Hempstead
Kimberly Style cut a red ribbon tied to the front porch pillars of her new home, 68 Webb Avenue in Hempstead at a news conference on April 14. Seven years before, Style and her two children, …
Op-Ed
Racial inequities and the Biden infrastructure plan
President Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan is remarkable for its ambition and breadth and for taking significant steps to address historic racial inequities. The president deserves great credit . . .
Editorial
U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier
To the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest month in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Scott Brinton
Restoring a lost habitat in our backyard
In the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches . . .
Randi Kreiss
All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.
If there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-can-eat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads . . .
Op-Ed
L.I. school board tries to ban Black Lives Matter
The Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality.