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Joe Mottola, far left, Elaine Tamsen and Nicola Bilotta have been named the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee’s Honorary Patriots for 2023. At right is the committee’s chairman, Tom Condon, a former teacher and guidance counselor in the Seaford Public School District.

Meet the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee's 2023 Honorary Patriots

The Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee was created to remember — and mourn — the five local victims of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, keeping their memory alive year-round. more

By Michael Malaszczyk | 4/16/23

Wantagh American Legionnaires fire a 21-gun salute in a tribute to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

Wantagh and Seaford commemorate 9/11

The New York City metropolitan area was, collectively and profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, 21 years ago now. more

By Michael Malaszczyk | 9/15/22

President George W. Bush’s address to the nation, 9/11/01

Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. more

9/8/22

Wantagh residents listened to the Wantagh American Legion Pipe Band on Sept. 9 at the local memorial.

Wantagh chamber’s candlelit vigil honors heroes

It was a solemn scene on Sept. 9 at Heroes’ Walk in Wantagh: With candle flames flickering in the wind, residents bowed their heads as the Wantagh American Legion Pipe Band played … more

By Kate Nalepinski | 9/14/21

Members of the Rockville Centre Fire Department served as the color guard at the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa.

Hempstead salutes 9/11 heroes in moving ceremony

Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago. At the Hempstead … more

By James Bernstein | 9/12/21

Our promise to never forget means we must wear our masks

I want you to remember waking up on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001 — that is, if you had slept at all the night before. Recall how you felt about your country, your neighbors, and especially our lion-hearted first responders . . . more

By Sara Director | 12/24/20

The Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee is tentatively scheduling a calendar of events and efforts for next year in honor of the five Seaford High School alumni lost on Sept. 11, 2001.

Seaford 9/11 Committee preps for 20-year remembrance

The Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee is making its initial preparations for the tentative 2021 schedule. Next year’s events are designed to culminate in the committee’s annual Sept. 11 … more

By J.D. Freda | 12/10/20

Susan Hutchins was among seven readers to recite the names of Nassau’s 348 9/11 victims at the county cderemony. Hutchins’s son Kevin Colbert, 25, of West Hempstead, died in the World Trade Center attacks.

Nassau County hosts socially distant 9/11 ceremony

In a nearly 40-minute, socially distant ceremony last Friday morning, elected and appointed Nassau officials and families of local 9/11 victims paused to remember the 348 county residents who died in … more

By Scott Brinton | 9/14/20

Phil Alvarez, brother of Sept. 11 first responder Luis Alvarez, who died of 9/11-related cancer in 2019, was the keynote speaker at the Town of Hempstead's annual Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony in Point Lookout. To his right was Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and to his left, Councilman Bruce Blakeman.

Brother of 9/11 hero Luis Alvarez stirs crowd at Town of Hempstead memorial

They gathered in the early-morning light Friday at the Hempstead Town Park at Lido to honor those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and also to salute the thousands . . . more

By James Bernstein | 9/11/20

This Sept. 11, we mourn more deeply than ever

For those who lived in the New York metropolitan area when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists, Sept. 11 is a day that will “live in infamy,” to quote President Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . more

9/11/20

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