Textbooks, pencils, calculators ... and hand sanitizers? Administrators, teachers and students are gearing up for a new school year with one more thing on their minds: how to stay healthy, especially with warnings about the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, as it’s more commonly known. more

Richner Communications, Inc., publishers of 27 local publications on Long Island and in the Bronx, including the Herald Community Newspapers, has joined with community newspaper companies from across the United States to launch Zip2Save.com, a comprehensive national aggregation site that will feature online preprints, circulars, coupons, deals, travel specials and more. The sitewill launch on Oct. 1 by Local Point Media, a recently established national advertising network that is owned by Richner Communications and 18 other large, community newspaper companies in the United States and Canada. more