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More than 100 domestic ducks were rescued in the Town of Hempstead last year, including about 75 in Baldwin. Most pictured above were rescued from Baldwin Harbor.

Nonprofit rescues abandoned domestic ducks in Baldwin

With spring less than four weeks away, the domestic duck dumping season has begun in the Town of Hempstead. Activists with Long Island Orchestrating for Nature, also known as LION, an animal … more

By Bridget Downes | 2/25/21

Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé hosted a virtual webinar Feb. 18 at which Jonathan Prevost, Bianca Boursiquot, Kyra Lewis, Jose Villatoro and Kiana Abbady discussed issues facing millennials.

Baldwin, Freeport millennials talk diversity

Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé hosted a discussion with millennial constituents last week as part of a virtual panel called “Redesigning the District: A Conversation with … more

By Bridget Downes | 2/25/21

So now that you’re vaccinated . . .

I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19. more

By Lawrence E. Eisenstein | 2/25/21

How do you know I’m from Lawn Guyland?

I was in Ryann’s Wines in East Meadow around the holidays, standing at the checkout, when a fellow customer, a man in his 70s, called out to a 20-something employee from across the store. more

By Nick Buglione | 2/25/21

A governor bruised by a pandemic mistake

I admired Gov. Mario Cuomo so much that I actually bought an old CD of his speeches some years ago, and I actually listened to them. So I am educated in the successes and rhetorical and political skills of the Cuomo boys. more

2/25/21

A year later, lessons learned from the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic reached Long Island a year ago next week, at first bringing a handful of cases before it dug in and exploded, wreaking havoc. more

2/25/21

Laura Curran is handling Nassau County with aplomb

There are many benefits to getting older, although I often wish that I were a lot younger. When it comes to Long Island politics, I have pretty good recall going back to the mid-1950s. more

2/18/21

Finding peace again, post-Trump

We lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we? Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to . . . more

2/18/21

Grab your ladle: The soup’s on the table

This column is back by popular demand. Well, in truth, only one reader, shivering through the freezing weather, remembered that I once wrote about winter soups, and asked me to do another one. more

2/18/21

Michelle and Larry Foder, of Malverne, renewed their wedding vows at the Coral House on Feb. 12 alongside Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito.

Love was in the air

“I found Larry over a death certificate,” Michelle Foder said of her husband. She’s a funeral director at Franklin Funeral Home in Franklin Square. “So we found something … more

By Bridget Downes | 2/18/21

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