- Texas School Aids Seaford Community Post-Sandy: A Texas teen decided to help her cousin's hometown of Seaford following Hurricane Sandy by spearheading a relief drive for the hard-hit community with her high school drill team. The charitable effort, which sprung from Seaford Middle School eighth grader Kenna MacLean having a weekly Sunday phone conversation with Morgan Ericson of Plano, Texas, raised more than $3,000 in relief supplies and gift cards that were donated and distributed throughout the Seaford area.
- Couple Celebrates 70 Years Of Wedded Bliss: Leo Shargel, 95, and his wife Lillian, 91, celebrated an amazing milestone in their lives together back in July: their 70th wedding anniversary. The couple married within three months of meeting one another on a blind date on April 5, 1942.
- Mineola Junior Fire Department Serves Thanksgiving in Rockaways: The members of the Mineola Junior Fire Department and TV star Brad Garrett gave up their Thanksgiving Day this year to serve food in the Rockaways to victims of Hurricane Sandy which caused widespread damage leaving people in the cold with no place to go.
- Best Buddies Fill Stockings for Hospitalized Troops in Afghanistan: Garden City High School’s Best Buddies club filled stockings for troops in hospitals in Afghanistan earlier in December. Best Buddies President Breanne Lapinski spearheaded the event by calling for donations of candy, decks of cards, DVDs and the like. Lapinski also worked with local Girl Scout Daisy troops to make ornaments and holiday cards for our soldiers.
- Sacks for Sandy Spreads Holiday Cheer to Kids: Michele Catalano of East Meadow is a self-proclaimed Internet girl. She even met one of her closet friends, Leah Reich of Oakland, Ca. through Twitter. It was only fitting that when she kick-started a post-Hurricane Sandy relief effort that it was online and with that very same friend. Catalano and Reich created their website, Sacks for Sandy, and in just one week collected more than 700 toys for children affected by Sandy.
- Very Peri: One West Hempstead girl was born with a form of muscular dystrophy that could have easily held her back and crushed her spirits, but instead it inspires her to work hard, dream big, try new things and give back to others.
- West Hempstead Bringing Relief to Forgotten Island Park: Although still contending with power outages in their homes, many West Hempstead students, staff and their families spent three days collecting supplies and delivering them to their classmates, friends and other residents in Island Park devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
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AEA President June 18, 2013 at 04:46 pm
yes - by sheer coincidence, their employees work more overtime than ever before in their last 3…Read More years of employment before retirement (as it so happens, their pension is based in part on their last 3 years of employment).
Jack Kett June 18, 2013 at 07:41 pm
Bottom line re: LIRR is that people in suburbs who ride LIRR and Metro North are paying to subsidize…Read More the bankrupt NYC Subways and subsidize minority riders in the outer boros. Its the price we pay to not live in NYC. The subways charges a cheap fixed fare to subsidize low income NYC residents. Its a form of socialism.
Joe June 18, 2013 at 08:19 pm
Jack, racist much? Why don't you go have a tea party with the rest of the little Republican girls?
Eddie June 18, 2013 at 02:55 pm
Great photos, Richard. With joists like those, you could drive a firetruck up that thing!
Eugene Torres June 17, 2013 at 07:57 am
Heron St is like a bombed out war zone. Many of the residents
drive the wrong way to avoid the…Read More potholes at the beginning of the street.
Charlie Cheswick June 18, 2013 at 03:13 pm
"Working" storm drains like the one between Regent & Greenway on Lido Blvd?
Susie Pennachio June 15, 2013 at 09:13 am
yeeeepppp i always see people trying to get thru it or go around it to get onto the beach
Jaime Sumersille (Editor) June 15, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for the notice, Ally! I posted this on Facebook to make people aware! - Jaime Sumersille,…Read More Regional Editor, Nassau County
RackEmUp Gomez June 14, 2013 at 03:55 pm
Those murderers from Boston were students, right?
How about importing some kids from Brooklyn that…Read More need help?
Lets stop being patsys.
Me June 13, 2013 at 08:49 pm
What would be the basis for that demand? The govt only has to turn over exculpatory evidence or…Read More evidence it intends to use against a defendant and as far as I know in a civil matter (especially divorce) the govt is generally not a party to the action so how would they be compelled to do so?
oceanview June 14, 2013 at 10:43 am
Did Grace Industries have the contract for the firehouse in the west end?
RackEmUp Gomez June 17, 2013 at 11:36 pm
How about the THOUSANDS of illegal apartments being rebuilt with FEDERAL money?
Who gives a rats…Read More ass about the boardwalk?
Lets get the multi-millions in untaxed cash from these thieving landlords.
RackEmUp Gomez June 14, 2013 at 05:55 pm
I dont agree with all or even most of Harveys politics but there is NO doubt that he is one the…Read More greatest benefactors to Long Beach in its history.......maybe THE greatest.
When he is gone the Tea Party scumbags that want to kill the sandy Bill in 2014 and also send your flood insurance off the charts will have one less voice speaking out against it.
LI Resistance June 16, 2013 at 09:17 pm
When Harvey is gone we will have less wasted money from the tax payers. Harvey is our benefactor…Read More using our own tax money you idiots.
anonymous June 17, 2013 at 01:54 am
You guys still don't get it...yes...Harvey brings back "our" money. But why are he and the…Read More rest of the politicians taking it in the first place? These politicians have you so bamboozled that as they bleed us dry you thank them for the privilege of doing it. All they have to do is say "it's for the children" and you take leave of your brains. Unbelievable...
RackEmUp Gomez June 14, 2013 at 09:16 pm
If one of the 17 was your son you may not be so flippant , you moron.
oceanview June 13, 2013 at 11:26 am
Who let these people run the shelter. They looked like con artists right from the start.
andy napolitano June 13, 2013 at 01:16 pm
@BSM if you read the post you would see it tells you to go to a Facebook site called Rescue Ink =…Read More The Facts. On this site there is a copy of Rescue Inks's 2011 tax form which is public information. It shows right on that tax form how they only paid 6% of their income for the animals. Also it is in the contract (also public information) with the City Of Long Beach, that Rescue Ink is just "running" the shelter. The building is owned & maintained by the City which also pays all utilities & vet bills. You should do a little research yourself before you question us. We could never put up these "facts" unless they were true.
Honor 1st Grade teacher Victoria Soto who gave her life protecting her students by naming a Guide Dog in her honor. It's the morning of Christmas Eve and we have raised $3,417. Can we hit the $6K goal by Christmas Night? Help make it happen. Go to the link below: http://my.imisfriendraising.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=307735#.UNM2HcOWcUI.facebook