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Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in Nassau County.

Where does your sewage go? If you live in Nassau County, it goes into a sewage treatment plant. One huge problem for these treatment plants is nylon. Nylon is a strong, stretchy material that slows … more

By Karis Lynch, Emma Nastro and Connor Mangan, sixth grade Oceanside Project Extra students | 1/30/14

Doug O’Grady recently founded the Mohawk Avenue Saint Foundation to help Sandy victims.

Volunteer launches non-profit to help Sandy victims

In the months following Hurricane Sandy, West Fulton Street resident Doug O’Grady spent his days volunteering and helping his fellow Long Beach residents clean out and gut their … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 5/8/13

Let's keep our beach communities vibrant

It’s been five months since Hurricane Sandy devastated many South Shore communities, but it appears that some of the areas most impacted will finally receive the necessary funding to start the process of rebuilding damaged beaches and dunes. more

3/28/13

Putnam Boulevard has less foot traffic as Hurricane Sandy damaged the Atlantic Beach boardwalk forcing the village to close the approximately half-mile walkway until repairs are complete.

Repairing the Atlantic Beach boardwalk

Though not as long as or iconic as the Long Beach boardwalk, the half-mile boardwalk in Atlantic Beach built in 1928 is a landmark for residents of the barrier beach community that was established five years earlier. more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/23/13

Several Cedarhurst residents were uprooted and are living in other places after Hurricane Sandy damaged their homes. A tree fell on a house on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst in the October storm.

Sandy victims still without a home

Moving from house to house has impacted every aspect of Woodmere resident Dror Zar’s life. He has lost his sense of security, he says, and now lives with the uncertainty of not knowing when he will return to his Barnard Street home. more

By Ann Friedman | 1/23/13

Toll collection will resume on the Atlantic Beach Bridge starting Monday. However, the bridge remains closed to non-residents of the barrier island.

Atlantic Beach Bridge toll collection resumes Monday

Tolls will once again be collected on the Atlantic Beach Bridge beginning Monday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. after being suspended since Oct. 28 due to Hurricane Sandy to ease the evacuation of the barrier island. more

By Jeff Bessen | 11/15/12

Did you see that? It was the summer of 2012, flying by.

One single summer is never enough time to read all the books, take all the ferries, eat all the cherries or hike all the trails that I plan to do in May, when summer is just on the horizon. more

9/6/12

The Baessler family on Eldorado Beach in the early 1940s.

Happy 50th, Atlantic Beach

Cy Gruber’s family came to Atlantic Beach in 1932, when he was a youngster. They had a summer home on Fulton Street, and Gruber remembers the smell of the ocean air, which they didn’t enjoy at their apartment in the Bronx. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/14/12

For four decades, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer has fought to preserve the Long Beach barrier island’s beaches and bays. Here, Kramer on a jetty in Atlantic Beach, near his home.

Morris Kramer: Friend of the environment

Second of two parts. From the early 1970s to the 1990s, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer scoured the sands of Atlantic Beach and Long Beach in search of hypodermic needles and balls of sewage sludge that had congealed on disposable pens and bottle caps. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/2/12

Morris Kramer, pictured above at the Starbucks in Long Beach, a civic and environmental activist from Atlantic Beach, scored a historic Supreme Court victory in June 1969 that overturned restrictive voting practices across the U.S.

Voice of the people –– Morris Kramer

First of two parts. In 1965, Morris Kramer, a 30-year-old bachelor who lived in Atlantic Beach with his mother, claimed that the Lawrence Public School District and the State of New York were discriminating against him. Kramer owned no property and had no children in the schools, so, by state law at the time, he couldn’t vote in a school district election. That, he said, violated his constitutional rights. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 4/18/12

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