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The auto storage lot on the corner of Sunrise Highway and Grand Avenue has been crowded with dozens of vehicles for 10 years.

As efforts to redevelop Baldwin’s downtown progress, residents and Baldwin Civic Association members are calling on the Town of Hempstead’s Zoning Board of Appeals to revoke a variance allowing … more

By Bridget Downes | 12/12/19

Santa and Mrs. Claus greeted the crowd as they arrived at the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce Christmas tree lighting celebration on a Baldwin Fire Department truck last Sunday.

Ringing in the holiday season

Dozens of people rang in the holiday season last Sunday at the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce Christmas Tree Lighting celebration. Children enjoyed pony rides, snacks and visits with Santa Claus … more

12/12/19

Officers from the Nassau County Police Department’s 1st Precinct fielded Baldwinites’ questions at a Dec. 3 forum.

NCPD officers answer the public’s questions

Nassau County 1st Precinct police officers fielded questions from the public and offered holiday safety tips at a community forum at the Baldwin Public Library on Dec. 3. Inspector Mark Vitelli, … more

By Bridget Downes | 12/12/19

Michelle-Dionisio, a fourth-grade teacher at Brookside Elementary School, skipped down the field with a rubber chicken on Nov. 27 at the school’s first Turkey Trot to benefit local food pantries for Thanksgiving.

Brookside hosts first Turkey Trot to benefit food pantries

Brookside Elementary School hosted its first Turkey Trot, where students ran around the field passing a rubber chicken like a baton to their classmates. And the children were racing for a cause. … more

12/5/19

The Nassau Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority patronized small businesses around Nassau County, including Swirl Bliss in Baldwin, last Saturday during its third annual Small Business Crawl.

Delta Sigma Theta means business

A small crowd clad in red and white filled Swirl Bliss, a frozen yogurt shop in Baldwin, last weekend on what is known nationally as Small Business Saturday. They wore the colors of the Nassau … more

By Bridget Downes | 12/5/19

American Water Works Co. announced in a press release Nov. 20 that it would sell its New York operation to Liberty Utilities for $608 million in cash.

New York American Water to be sold for $608M

American Water Works Co. announced in a Nov. 20 press release that it would sell its New York operation to Liberty Utilities for $608 million cash. The deal follows years-long criticism from Nassau … more

By Alyssa Seidman and Bridget Downes | 12/5/19

Abi Rudow, of VHB Engineering, a consulting team working on the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, spoke to residents at a community meeting at Baldwin High School on Nov. 20.

Residents share revitalization project ideas

More than a hundred people turned out for the second meeting of the Baldwin Downtown Revitalization Initiative at Baldwin High School on Nov. 20, when state representatives and consultants heard … more

By Bridget Downes | 11/29/19

Sanitary District No. 2 workers have removed 23 graffiti scrawlings and illegal stickers in the past few weeks.

Baldwin sanitation workers clean up 23 instances of graffiti

Within the past few weeks, Baldwin sanitation workers teamed up with the Chamber of Commerce to remove 23 instances of graffiti and vandalism around Baldwin, South Hempstead and Roosevelt. To … more

By Bridget Downes | 11/29/19

Baldwin High School students performed “Guys and Dolls” last weekend. In the opening number, “Fugue for Tinhorns,” gamblers Benny Southstreet, Nicely-Nicely Johnson and Rusty Charlie, played by Chris Holman, Daniel Polonia and Jaylin Thomas, set the stage for the classic story of love and gambling in 1920s Times Square.

‘Guys and Dolls’ was one solid bet

Baldwin High School students performed “Guys and Dolls” this past weekend as this season’s musical production. The BHS Playhouse presented the musical fable of Broadway, which is based on a … more

11/29/19

How slavery changed the face of Long Island

Tom and Mercy, Ben, Nancy and Jacob. These were only five of the slaves who lived on Long Island before New York abolished slavery in 1827. “In some cases, a single piece of paper with one of … more

By Melissa Koenig | 11/27/19

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