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Overcast It’s back to school for West Hempstead students
The West Hempstead School District welcomed new and returning students for the 2021-22 school year on Sept. 1. The students kicked off their first day with enthusiasm as they arrived at their schools …
Twenty years later, West Hempstead residents reflect on 9/11
Residents, local elected officials and community groups gathered around the 9/11 Memorial at Hall’s Pond Park in West Hempstead last Saturday for the West Hempstead Community Support …
West Hempstead hosts annual Labor Day Drill
The West Hempstead Westerners finished third with a total of 20 points in the annual Labor Day Drill in Hempstead on Sept. 6. Hosted by West Hempstead, fire departments from different parts of …
West Hempstead Library exhibition on 9/11 is open
West Hempstead Public Library Director Regina Mascia was a clerk at the library’s previous location on Chestnut Street at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks. She remembers getting a phone call …
A warm community welcome in West Hempstead
The West Hempstead School District hosted a Community Welcome event outdoors at West Hempstead High School on Aug. 27. In collaboration between the district, PTA, PTSA, SEPTA and PARP organizations, …
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 …
Rotary leads effort to replace Rescuing Families’ tools
Gina and Vinny Centauro, co-founders of the Franklin Square-based charity Rescuing Families, which rebuilds houses for families in need, aren’t used to being on the receiving end of help. But …
National Compassion Fund to aid West Hempstead's Stop & Shop victims
Four and a half months after a deadly shooting at the West Hempstead Stop & Shop, there is renewed support for the victims. Several store employees sat in on a town hall meeting hosted by the …
Goal is a safe return to school
Malverne, West Hempstead districts prepare for a new academic year
After a year of virtual learning combined with periods of in-person instruction, school district leaders in Malverne and West Hempstead are eager to see all …
Hoping to find a donor
West Hempstead mail carrier needs kidney transplant
Lifelong West Hempstead resident Eric Peluso has earned a reputation as a friendly neighborhood mail carrier in just eight months on the job with the U.S. Postal Service in West Hempstead. Peluso, …
Editorial
Reflecting on the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years later
The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades . . .
Editorial
Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .
Some 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau!