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Little League honors Lazar LaPenna
Little League parades are usually an ordinary ritual filled with happy chatter about the upcoming baseball season. But the parade in Long Beach last Sunday morning was anything but …
Masha Benitez finally receives double lung transplant
Masha Benitez, the Long Beach teenager who has been awaiting a life-saving double-lung transplant for the last two years, underwent 13 ½ hours of surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in …
Krywe is county Coach of Year for 2nd time
Eric Krywe, the Long Beach High School boy’s junior varsity basketball coach, was named Nassau County coach of the year for the conference., the second time he has won the award. Krywe was …
L.B. City Council okays $2.1M fire truck purchase
With about 50 firefighters in the audience Tuesday night, the Long Beach City Council approved, 4-1, a plan to spend $2.1 million to purchase a new ladder fire truck to replace an aging vehicle that …
Religious leaders hail National Police Week
Religious leaders from some of Long Beach’s synagogues and churches organized a barbecue this past Sunday in recognition of National Police Week. The leaders took note of the back-to-back …
New lifeguard pavilion named for Carbona
Long Beach officials and guests gathered on the boardwalk last weekend to re-name the lifeguard pavilion in honor of the Carbona family, which donated $300,000 for the construction of the …
Hero dog’s bark said to save lives in Long Beach
A dog named Daisy is being called a hero these days for doing something many people find annoying: barking excessively. When a fire broke out at 4 Clark St., in Long Beach in the middle of the …
Editorial
Hello, county Human Rights Commission?
Lucy Pozo fought hard not to let the people sitting in front of her see her cry. The senior at East Rockaway High School stood before the district’s Board of Education . . .
Op-Ed
When so-called free speech is censored
I find U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York; Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota; Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts; and Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan, politically repugnant . . .
Op-Ed
Learning to protect ourselves from scammers
People have called him many things — kind, loving, helpful, funny. I’ve heard him described as meticulous. But to me and my siblings, he’s simply Dad.
Randi Kreiss
Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite?
Last night, having been off my devices all day and peacefully oblivious to the news, I turned on the TV as I slipped into bed just to catch up. Now, you know and I know that I shouldn’t have done that . . .