At a June 5 ceremony at the Woodbury Country Club, Herald Community Newspapers took home four honors in the Press Club of Long Island’s annual Media Awards contest.
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6/12/13
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Living in New York state and not traveling outside the region on a periodic basis leaves me disconnected from the rest of the world. A very wise person once told me that to understand what is happening in our lives, we must leave home from time to time.
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4/11/13
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I think of you as fellow travelers. We are, after all, living our lives in sync, reading the same news, reacting to the same events.
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1/17/13
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Hurricane Sandy attacked without mercy, leaving more than a million Long Islanders without power and wrecking tens of thousands of homes near the shoreline. Then a second disaster struck.
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12/13/12
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Lions and tigers and bears — oh my! The forest was dense, and twigs scraped against our jeans as we hunted for the Wicked Witch of the West, using sticks as weapons. We wandered off from the …
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By Mary Malloy
mmalloy@liherald.com
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10/18/12
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I ran track as an eighth-grader at Grand Avenue Middle School in Bellmore in 2001. I wasn’t a star, but I stuck it out through the spring season and learned how to stay fit for life. I was 14 years old.
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By David Weingrad
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9/26/12
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As part of the Council of Education Travel, students from European and Asian countries will be coming to Long Island to stay with host families and spend the 2012-2013 school year as foreign exchange …
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3/7/12
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Our guide in Penang, Malaysia, hopped onto our bus, introduced himself and said, “I am Sikh but as you see I do not wear a turban, I love beer and I enjoy spare ribs … I am a great disappointment to my mother.” Of course he got his laugh, but he also made his point. We could expect to be surprised.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/2/11
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Traffic Advisory from Nassau County Police:
BANDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH AROUND 10 AM. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED DURING THIS …
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12/27/10
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Once upon a time (actually it was 1968, but it might as well have been once upon a time), my brand new husband and I traveled to Bermuda for our wedding trip. I wore the standard travel outfit: a dress and matching coat ensemble, white high heels, pastel gloves and a straw hat. My husband wore a sport coat; he carried his two favorite Swiss Army knives in his pocket and a fishing knife in his molded plastic carry-on.
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by Randi Kreiss
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12/2/10
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