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Mostly Cloudy Melina Serra joins baseball team, making history
Melina Serra, middle schooler, is the first female athlete to join the Lynbrook Middle School baseball season.
Students win awards in photography competition
Three East Rockaway High School students were awarded at the Photographic Federation of Long Island Youth Competition last month.
Middle schoolers take on advanced math test
Twenty students from Lynbrook North and South middle schools challenged themselves to put their mathematical intelligence to the ultimate test as part of the American Mathematics Competition.
Staff honored for their dedication to the district
Superintendent of Schools James DeTommasso recognized 66 members of the East Rockaway Schools family who have dedicated 20 or more years of service to the district.
Blended team combines on a championship
The Rockville Centre/East Rockaway/Hewlett junior varsity ice hockey team claimed the Nassau Country championship in March, just two years after joining forces as a team.
Students’ cafe is open for business
The Skills and Achievement class at East Rockaway Jr./Sr. High School brought back Cafe 217. The program teaches students interpersonal communication, along with other important life skills.
Local flag football team secures second championship win
Lynbrook's fifth grade flag football team won their championships for the second year in a row earlier this month.
Kindergartners march along as favorite fictional characters
Lynbrook kindergarteners dressed in their favorite fictional characters and marched in their school's gymnasium.
School budget gets green light by board of ed
The East Rockaway Board of Education voted to approve their proposed $45.2 million budget for the 2024 to 2025 school year last Tuesday, which neighbors will vote on next month.
Lynbrook Board of Education approves budget
The Lynbrook Board of Education voted to approve their proposed $106.3 million budget for the 2024 to 2025 school year last Tuesday, which neighbors will vote on next month.
Editorial
Celebrating N.Y.’s investment in local journalism
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature delivered a beacon of hope for our communities by including in the state budget a groundbreaking initiative to support local news organizations in the form of a tax credit.
Columnist
We must secure our borders, reform immigration now
The Senate's promising bipartisan border deal was dismissed as "disastrous."
Columnist
Yes, we can — and must — work together
Bipartisanship works! Republicans and Democrats in Congress answered the call of history. We fought back against Putin, Iran, the terrorists, the scourge of fentanyl and, most important, Russia’s campaign of deceit and disinformation (and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene).
Columnist
The state budget: lots of dollars, little sense
Nearly three weeks late, the $237 billion state budget presents a mix of positives and negatives. While it’s easy to find initiatives to support in such a large spending plan, inexplicably, there are areas where it falls short.
Columnist
AI can be a double-edged sword for society
Should we welcome artificial intelligence or be scared by it? Probably both
Columnist
Blakeman enthusiastically follows Trump’s lead
The political similarities between former President Donald Trump and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman are now impossible to miss. Which is probably just what Blakeman intends.