“We are here to stay,” says John Stella, one of the four founders of Precision Pharmacy. After Kings Pharmacy closed, it was evident that Long Beach needed a family drug store to take its place.
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3/27/14
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced plans for a $65 million renovation for Jones Beach State Park, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this year.
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By Michael Ganci
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3/26/14
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A burst of Mexican festivity greets you in every sense. Colorful flags, murals, vintage photos and artifacts abound.
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3/21/14
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Exhibits and more...
AftermodernisM Spring 2014This exhibition illustrates a broad range of styles spanning non-objective abstraction through sharp focused realism. Featured artists Michael …
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3/12/14
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Most pundits agreed: Mitt Romney won the first of three presidential debates in 2012, held at the University of Denver on Oct. 3. President Obama, whose rhetorical skills were the stuff of political legend, appeared tired, and in the weeks after the debate, his poll numbers plummeted.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/5/14
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A Massapequa man was sentenced to a year in prison Tuesday after helping his father fake his own death off Jones Beach as part of an insurance scam.
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By: Michael Ganci
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3/5/14
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New York state is considering an initiative at 10 of its state prisons to give prisoners a college education. The program would bring college professors into the prisons . . .
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2/27/14
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The company that wants to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 19 miles southeast of Jones Beach, Liberty Natural Gas, LLC, says the terminal would provide the greater New York City region with a new source of “competitively priced” natural gas. But New York State’s Energy Planning Board doesn’t see much of a future for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, imports in the United States. In fact, they are already waning, according to the board’s recently published 2014 Draft New York State Energy Plan.
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By Brian Racow
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2/12/14
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Sports fans across the globe will soon turn their eyes to Sochi, Russia, where the XXII Winter Olympic Games will be contested from Feb. 7 to 23.
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1/30/14
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After more than six months of investigations and controversy surrounding U.S. surveillance policies, President Obama delivered highly anticipated remarks . . .
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1/23/14
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