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Service is suspended on the Long Beach, Far Rockaway, West Hempstead and Babylon branches. more

By Vanessa Parker | 2/14/16

LIRR service suspended for entire South Shore

A disabled train in Valley Stream has shut down train service for the entire South Shore of Nassau County. According to the Long Island Rail Road, service on the Babylon, Long Beach, Far Rockaway … more

By Alex Costello | 2/14/16

Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! will hold its 25th annual Thanksgiving Day feast at St. John Baptist Church in Rockaway Beach. Above, volunteers at last year’s event.

Feeding a need on Thanksgiving

For the 25th year under the Rock and Wrap It Up! banner, a free Thanksgiving Day feast will be hosted by the Cedarhurst-based anti-poverty think tank at St. John Baptist Church at 7405 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Far Rockaway from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. more

By Jeff Bessen | 11/18/15

NYPD officers carried Randolph Holder's casket out of the church after Wednesday's funeral service.

Remembering to honor the heroes

Randolph Holder, the New York Police Department Housing Bureau officer who was killed on Oct. 20, allegedly by the man he was chasing, was remembered by family, friends, community leaders, police brass and officers as thousands lined Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, on Oct. 28. more

By Vanessa Parker | 10/28/15

Slain NYPD Officer Randolph Holder grew up in Far Rockaway.

Murdered NYC cop was buying a home in Valley Stream

Randolph Holder, the NYPD Housing Bureau officer who was killed on Tuesday by a suspect he was chasing, was planning to move to Valley Stream, 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported. more

By Micah Danney mdanney@liherald.com | 10/22/15

Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County is a volunteer medical service that serves the Five Towns and communities from the Marine Parkway Bridge to West Hempstead. Above, an ambulance headed to a call.

Answering the call for help

The one-story garage that Chevra Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County is building on West Broadway in Woodmere, between Forest and Edward avenues, has begun to take shape. Four walls are up, as well as two steel beams. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/9/15

Yeshiva Darchei Torah, in Far Rockaway, is undecided on whether to build a dormitory, a gymnasium or additional classrooms on a vacant site that was donated to the school.

Yeshiva Darchei Torah receives land donation

Thanks to a donation of land from its neighbors across the street, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, a Far Rockaway school that serves about 2,100 students, could be expanding its campus in the near future. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/19/15

Five Towns Letters to the Editor

Bigotry slant is disgraceful To the Editor: Wow! I read the Summit Avenue article “Residents seek increased security” in the July 30-Aug. 5 Herald, and although I have not lived in Inwood for 20 years, I still have family and friends there. more

8/19/15

Bishop Lawrence C. Provenzano, the leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, left, welcomed Gerard “Jerry” Walsh as the new chief executive officer of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital on Monday.

St. John’s names new chief executive officer

Gerard “Jerry” Walsh was part of the class that earned the first health care administration degrees from St. John’s University in 1979, and the Queens native — who spent his formative years in Elmhurst and began working in Forest Hills — has returned after 17 years in Maryland to be the new chief executive officer of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. more

By Jeff Bessen | 7/29/15

An incentive program overseen by the state Department of Health will offer up to $8 billion to hospitals that can effectively lower the number of low-income patients who frequently visit emergency rooms by treating them earlier. State Sen. Kemp Hannon, left, and NUMC president Dr. Victor Politi explained the program.

A plan to reform health care statewide

Nassau University Medical Center President Dr. Victor Politi and State Sen. Kemp Hannon announced on June 29 the hospital’s participation in an ambitious statewide incentive plan that aims to reform the health care system by focusing on greater care for at-risk, low-income patients to reduce “avoidable hospitalizations,” thereby lowering state Medicaid costs. If successful, the program could net hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for Long Island and Queens hospitals over the next five years, portions of which would go the NUMC. more

By David Weingrad | 7/8/15

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