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Mostly Cloudy Senators call for state probe into mercury vapor after element found at Cubs Cave in Merrick
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The Merrick school District has closed the Cubs Cave —a multipurpose room at Levy Lakeside School — after elevated levels of mercury were found there, according to a letter sent to …
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NYPD officer from Oceanside charged in alleged murder-for-hire plot against her ex-husband, underage girl
An NYPD officer from Oceanside is charged with allegedly asking her boyfriend to help her hire a hitman to murder her ex-husband and an underage girl, according to law enforcement officials.
Activists rescue cat with trap around its foot in Baldwin
They got him. The cat that has been walking around Baldwin with an inhumane, and illegal, foot trap around its paw has been taken in by cat trapper John Debacker, he said on his Facebook page. …
East Rockaway native is eager to launch MMA career with Atlantic City fight
Charlie “The Cannibal” Campbell says his focus will be locked on one man when he makes his professional mixed martial arts debut at the Tropicana in Atlantic City later this month — the one standing directly across from him in the Octagon, the one who wants to inflict pain on him.
A son who was always a hero
Marine Sgt. Robert A. Hendriks, 1994-2019
Felicia Arculeo received an email on April 8, 2011, saying that her then 17-year-old son, Robert Hendriks, had helped a much younger student whom he found standing in the dark in front of Locust …
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Baldwin school budget passes; Smyth, Cools elected to board; busing referendum passes
Baldwin voters approved the school district's 2019-20 budget by a vote of 1,086 to 349. In other news, newcomer Tom Smyth was elected to the Board of Education with 938 votes and incumbent Susan …
Wantagh Schools budget passes
Wantagh School District's 79.8 million budget passed by a vote of 1,486 to 487. Incumbent Trustee Kera McLoughlin was returned with 976 votes; challenger and first-time candidate Laura Reich …
Election
West Hempstead School District budget passed
Residents in the West Hempstead School District voted to support the 2019-20 budget on Tuesday, by a vote of 1,233 to 1,012. In addition, incumbents Karen Brohm and Patricia Greaves were …
Voters approve $40.2M budget, elect challengers over incumbents for East Rockaway Board of Education
Voters approved the East Rockaway School District's $40.2 million budget for 2019-20 and elected challengers Kristen O'Hagan and Peter McNally to the Board of Education over fellow challenger Theresa Devlin and incumbent Kristin Ochtera.
Valley Stream 2019 school board, school budget results
Residents in Valley Stream's three elementary school districts voted today for their Board of Education candidate picks as well as whether not to approve the Central High School and elementary school …
Election
GSNC bars Girl Scouts from participating in V.S. Camporee
Lillian Alvarez was prepared to attend her second Village of Valley Stream Camporee in June — her mother had signed the permission slip and was ready to pay the $15 camping fee — when she discovered on April 16 that the Girl Scouts won’t be allowed to attend the annual event this year.
Voters approve Oceanside School District's $157.2M budget for 2019-20
Voters in the Oceanside School District voted to approve the proposed $157.2 million budget for the 2019-20 school year and supported two Board of Education candidates in an uncontested race. The …
Valley Stream Chabad offers pre-Passover relaxation
Almost 40 women gathered at Temple Hillel on April 3 to decompress from their Passover preparations, which include destroying or selling leavened food, cleaning appliances and setting the table for the first two Seders. During the Seders — which are held on the first and second night of the holiday — Jews eat matzo, read the story of Exodus, drink four cups of wine and sing songs.
Editorial
On Memorial Day, have fun, but remember the dead
Memorial Day started as Decoration Day, and it was first observed at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on May 30, 1868, three years after the Civil War reached its bloody conclusion.
Op-Ed
Public-works projects must pay prevailing wages
Few public policies do more to build strong communities across our region than New York’s prevailing-wage law for public-works projects. It is a job-creating economic engine . . .
Op-Ed
Solitary confinement does more harm than good
Long Islanders, like all New Yorkers, have many different views about our criminal justice system, but everybody believes in the importance of safety and fairness. There is also a growing bipartisan consensus that mass incarceration does not achieve those objectives . . .
Randi Kreiss
We need to know that the fight is right
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, millions of Americans who doubted his integrity wondered how they could ever trust his decisions in moments of crisis. Now such a moment is here.