L.I. Herald

20/09/2025

Following the recent incident at Riverside Elementary involving a kindergartner leaving during the second day of school, district officials are taking a series of steps to strengthen safety protocols across all schools.

At the Sept. 4 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Matthew Gaven addressed the community’s concerns and outlined the district’s multi-pronged response focused on investigation, supervision and campus security.

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20/09/2025

The Uniondale Fire Department recently marked a long-awaited milestone at the Sherman Van Ness Fire Station, dedicating a new state-of-the-art ambulance that will double the company’s emergency response capacity and bring life-saving equipment closer to residents.

Vincent Celentano, an EMT with the New York City Fire Department, ceremonially christened the new vehicle by breaking a bottle of champagne over its front bumper on Aug. 23 at the Uniondale Avenue station.

“May every patient who enters these doors of this ambulance be met with dignity, kindness and competent care,” Celentano said during the dedication ceremony. “May lives be preserved, may burdens be lightened and may hope be restored to all. With grateful hearts, we dedicate this ambulance with the service of the people of union.”

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20/09/2025

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20/09/2025

Great music, great food and a great cause! Join Long Island Reach on Oct. 16 for Rock for Recovery at the Allegria Hotel rooftop and help keep vital mental health, addiction and education services alive for the community.

20/09/2025

Molloy University welcomed approximately 350 first-year students into its on-campus residence halls last week, marking the largest number of residential students in school history.

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📸: Courtesy of Molloy University

19/09/2025

What began in 1997 with 11 nets and 200 shirts has grown into Long Beach’s largest beach volleyball tournament, and a local tradition rooted in community, resilience and giving back.

The Michele O’Neill Foundation hosted its 29th annual volleyball tournament last Saturday, with 510 competitive and recreational teams crowding 81 nets along the sand — the largest competition to date for the foundation.

The foundation is a nonprofit benefiting children with cancer and special needs. It supports families dealing with the financial hardships of caring for children with catastrophic illnesses.

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📸: Stu Goldman/Herald

19/09/2025

Rockville Centre lit its Village Tree gold on Sept. 2, kicking off Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month and honoring the memory of Mary Ruchalski in front of the Village Hall.

Dozens of residents gathered for the annual ceremony hosted by the Mary Ruchalski Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and supporting research into pediatric cancer.

“We’ve been doing this for many years in the Village of Rockville Centre,” Mayor Francis X. Murray said, “and we hope and we pray, soon there will be a cure for multiple pediatric cancers in this world.”

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📸: Melissa Baptiste/Herald

19/09/2025

Bounding off the LIRR train at the Lynbrook Station, there may not have been a more enthusiastic mass transit advocate than the president of the Long Island Railroad, Rob Free.

His purpose was to tour Lynbrook’s new luxury transit-oriented development, the Langdon, which features 201 luxury rental apartments adjacent to Lynbrook’s Long Island Railroad Station and moments from the Village’s vibrant downtown.



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Bounding off the LIRR train at the Lynbrook Station, there may not have been a more enthusiastic mass transit advocate than the president of the Long Island Railroad, Rob Free. His purpose was to tour Lynbrook’s new luxury transit-oriented development, the Langdon, which features 201 luxury rental...

19/09/2025

There appeared to be some confusion within the Merrick community as to how the community garden at Broadcast Plaza appeared. Some understood that they consisted of growing native plants, but others said it looked like an unkempt patch of weeds.

The Merrick Chamber of Commerce has heard their voices and is stepping in with a plan to make the garden both ecologically friendly and visually appealing.

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📸: Courtesy Joe Baker

19/09/2025

Dozens of Malvernites were joined by state, county and local officials to celebrate the grand opening of Whelan Park last week.

The Sept. 4 celebration followed the soft opening of the park on July 23. Village residents and visitors can now enjoy walking and biking along a new scenic pathway, bringing their dogs to the park and tossing a ball around on the renovated fields.

“It was incredible to watch this facility transform from what it was to what it is now,” Deputy Mayor Scott Edwards said. Edwards and many other attendees recalled playing Little League baseball at Whelan Field as a child, when the field was little more than an undeveloped lot.

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📸: Tim Baker/Herald

18/09/2025

The Long Island Crisis Center will host its 17th annual “Let’s Walk, Let’s Talk: Stepping Together to Prevent Suicide” along the Long Beach boardwalk on Sept. 21, — an event that continues to grow in both reach and meaning since its beginnings in 2008.

What started as a gathering in response to the su***de of an area teenager has become a community-wide movement of remembrance, awareness, and hope.

“We originally started doing this event in response to a su***de that took place in 2008,” said Tawni Engel, the associate executive director of the Bellmore-based center “At first it was just family and friends, but by 2009, we wanted to make it an annual event to bring the community together.”

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📸: Skye Margies/Herald photos

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18/09/2025

Stephanie DeCarolis — the Oceanside author and lawyer, who early in her legal career worked with victims of abuse — has turned that experience into the engine behind her fourth novel, “The Wives of Hawthorne Lane,” which released Sept. 16.

DeCarolis, 39, said her legal background, combined with her love of suspense fiction, drives the story.

“This book was inspired by real women, and my experience working with them,” DeCarolis said. “Early in my legal career, I worked on an honorary basis as an advocate for victims of abuse.”

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