I have been blessed to raise my hand and pledge to serve my community as an elected official many times over the past 16 years. However, last Monday was the first — and hopefully, last — time that I will take the oath of office in my living room.
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By Debra Mulé
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1/20/22
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at the MLK Center in Long Beach will be spread over three days and will be filled with activities, starting Saturday.
Sunday will feature a cleanup inside …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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1/13/22
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For the second time in three nights, Long Beach overcame a sluggish first half to secure a Nassau Conference A-1 boys’ basketball victory.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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1/10/22
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who took office Monday, signed executive orders Thursday morning directing local boards of education to vote in January on whether their districts should …
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By Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez, Scott Brinton and James Bernstein
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1/7/22
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Coming off a Nassau Class AA boys’ basketball championship in the 2019-2020 campaign, Baldwin played just four games last winter after it was forced to quarantine following a Covid outbreak on …
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1/5/22
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Covid-19 swept through the Long Beach School District this week, shutting down in-class learning for middle school and pre-K students, who were moved to remote instruction. More closings are …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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1/3/22
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The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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Long Beach High School has closed and shifted to online instruction for the rest of the week. The decision to go remote was made Monday afternoon.
A large increase in covid cases through the week …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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12/21/21
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In recent months, we have seen a growing number of parents crowding school board meetings across Long Island, protesting the state mandate requiring students to mask up in schools.
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12/2/21
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I recently joined five Long Island high school students for a visit to the Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, the 18th-century site where many enslaved people of African descent lived.
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By Elaine Gross
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11/18/21
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