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Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford, left, and Town of Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin said that County Comptroller and former Long Beach City Manager Jack Schnirman, as well as Town Supervisor Laura Gillen's chief of staff, Jim LaCarrubba — Long Beach's former public works commissioner — received separation payments they were not entitled to when they ended their employment with the City of Long Beach.

Clavin calls on Nassau County comptroller to resign

Town of Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin called on County Comptroller Jack Schnirman to resign on Tuesday amid an investigation into a “payout scandal” in Long Beach that Clavin … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 8/20/19

Author Michael Otterman, formerly of Merrick and Old Westbury, stopped by the Hofstra University Summer High School Journalism Institute on July 29 to discuss journalism with participants.

Author Michael Otterman, formerly of Merrick, revealing truth, doing good

Editor’s note: Devin Johnson, one of 10 participants in Hofstra University’s Summer High School Journalism Institute, is a rising junior at Elmont Memorial High School. The following … more

By Devin Johnson | 8/13/19

Thomas Gulotta was a former state assemblyman for the 13th District. In 1978, East Meadow residents Jess, left, and Charlie Bunshaft, 12 and 9, visited Gulotta at his office in the state capitol in Albany.

Former County Executive Tom Gulotta dies at 75

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Gulotta, of North Merrick, died on Sunday, Aug. 4. He was 75. Gulotta, a Republican, served as the county executive from 1987 to 2001. more

By Alyssa Seidman | 8/5/19

David Cornell, from Lynbrook, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, had his hair cut by Will Torres, of Queens Village, a student at the Barber and Beauty Institute of New York.

Summer stand-down serves Nassau’s veterans

The Nassau County Veterans Service Agency’s annual summer Veteran Stand Down welcomed hundreds of Long Island vets on Tuesday in Freeport. The biannual event last took place in November, shortly … more

By Nadya Nataly | 7/15/19

Liver transplant patient George Conte, of Floral Park, consulted recently with Dr. David Bernstein, Northwell Health’s chief of hepatology, at the Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. Conte received a new liver last August, at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Patients no longer need to leave Long Island for liver transplants now that Northwell offers them.

Liver transplant center is ‘a godsend’

George Conte reached the very high end of the Medical End-Stage Liver Disease scale last summer. The low end of the range is 6 — mild liver disease — and the upper end is 40 — near … more

By Scott Brinton | 7/11/19

Herald, RichnerLive teaming up to host Senior Expo in August

Herald Community Newspapers and RichnerLive will host a summer Senior Health & Beyond Expo on Thursday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Merrick Jewish Centre. This free event is dedicated … more

7/5/19

Nassau County Republicans decried new law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

Reacting to Green Light Bill

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week signed into law the Green Light Bill allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain New York state driver’s licenses. The State Assembly and Senate approved the measure in June. New York joins 12 other states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico in passing such legislation. more

By Nadya Nataly | 7/5/19

Fifty years later, Apollo participants tell their Moon-landing stories

As far as challenges go, Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt likened the U.S. effort to put a man on the Moon as roughly the engineering equivalent of building the Panama Canal or … more

By Peter Belfiore | 6/27/19

Rob Hampson, a hydraulic/coastal engineer with the Army Corps of Enginners, left, reviewed the Back Bays study with Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy.

‘Waiting for 2030 is unacceptable’

Nearly three years have passed, but the Nassau County Back Bays Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study to examine, in part, if storm gates can be installed at the Jones and East Rockaway inlets, will require more time, according to Scott Sanderson, section chief of coastal planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. more

By Nadya Nataly | 6/26/19

Map showing the extent of the plume as it has drifted southward, encroaching on the northern halves of both Seaford and Wantagh.

State unveils ambitious plan for Bethpage toxic plume

Hundreds of people gathered in the auditorium at Bethpage High School on June 11 to learn about the ambitious proposal by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to contain and … more

By Mallory Wilson | 6/18/19

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