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Seaford Superintendent Adele Pecora at the start of her second year overseeing the district. She said that technology would be a critical component in enhancing learning across all grades.
Schools head Pecora exudes 'Seaford Pride'
Seaford Schools Superintendent Dr. Adele Pecora may be from Massapequa, but she projects Seaford Pride. A thoroughgoing professional with nearly 30 years of experience, she has only the highest praise for the district and the community and communicates a determination to do well by both. more
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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
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Wantagh High School graduates celebrated the traditional way at the end of the graduation ceremony on June 14.
Wantagh H.S. class of 2019 graduates
“High School graduation is the end of a journey,” Wantagh High School Principal Carolyn Breivogel told the 243 seniors at their graduation last Friday. “[It is a] special journey … more
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Student observer Melanie Volz, right, comments on next-door neighbor Peter Mountanos, whose eligibility to serve was questioned during the meeting. Trustee Kera McLoughlin is at left
Wantagh BOE meeting becomes campaign forum
With the Wantagh Schools Board of Education runoff election less than a week away, last week’s board meeting ended with a round of point-counterpoint jousting about the candidacy of board … more
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Timothy Denton/Herald-Citizen The proposed site of a cabaret, the focus of a $2.5 million defamation suit between club owner Billy Dean and Wantagh resident Kevin Milano that they settled last week.
$2.5 million defamation case settled
After a decade of protests and lawsuits, half of the legal issues surrounding a proposed cabaret in Wantagh disappeared last week, as William “Billy” Dean and Kevin Milano settled a $2.5 … more
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Seaford High School sophomore Madeline Kollar when she was 14. Now 16, she was recently selected a national delegate for the Girl Scouts.
No longer just a Seaford Girl Scout
Seaford High School sophomore Madeline Kollar’s lifelong participation in Girl Scouts recently reached its peak with the 16-year-old’s selection as a national delegate for Girl Scouts … more
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Four-year-old Jack Fagan, left, and William Dennehy, 5, donned kid-sized mortarboards after graduating with their classmates in the Yellow Room class at Seaford Community Preschool on June 12.
Preschoolers stride toward kindergarten
“To me, the children are just everything that is right in the world,” Seaford Community Preschool Director Siri Willis said, at the school’s 50th Moving Up to Kindergarten ceremony … more
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Peter Mountanos
Mountanos and Reich gird for runoff
New issues emerged in the Wantagh Union Free School District as Board of Education candidates Peter Mountanos and Laura Reich prepared for a runoff election on June 26 that neither expected.For the … more
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Christina Daly/Herald-Citizen The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter has been the focus of controversy and lawsuits for at least a decade.
Taking town animal shelter to task
Capping a three-year-long, on-again, off-again effort by his department, Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman released a limited audit of the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh last week … more
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Seaford Middle School, on Washington Avenue, closed briefly in March 2018 because of a broken water main.
NYAW mains: a good news/bad news story
As the replacement of water mains proceeds along four Seaford streets, controversy continues to embroil New York American Water, Nassau County’s only privately held water company.Work began on … more
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