Educators, experts wait on Cuomo for virus guidance
With local school districts’ first day of class just weeks away, administrators and public education experts are anxiously awaiting state and federal guidance on protocols to curtail the spread of...
View ArticlePriest: ‘James and Michael salt of the Earth, might of the world’
Six days after being pronounced dead at the scene of a head-on car collision in Quogue, Manhasset brothers Michael and James Farrell were laid to rest at Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington....
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Johnson says Butera targeted by ‘bad actors’ in sex harassment scandal
A top Manhasset school official on Tuesday urged her own Board of Education not to oust Superintendent Vincent Butera as she claimed “bad actors” had thrust the district’s leader into a...
View ArticleTraffic advisory for Manhasset drivers near Kiess’ funeral
The Nassau County Police Department has issued a traffic advisory for Manhasset motorists in the vicinity of a funeral service for Ryan Kiess, one of three local high school graduates killed at the...
View ArticleState passes buck to school districts on COVID rules
In an unexpected reversal of who’ll lead protocol, neither the governor’s office nor the state Department of Health will offer school districts a guidance document on preventative measures against the...
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Ryan Kiess is recalled as a lover of life
A man described as an exemplary professional, loving younger brother, championship winning sports player and proud driver of a Chevy Suburban was laid to rest Friday afternoon surrounded by hundreds of...
View ArticleIn absence of state, education commissioner to issue coronavirus guidance
Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said Tuesday that her department will issue guidance to schools on preventing the spread of coronavirus. She acted after the governor’s office and state Health...
View ArticleFollowing footsteps of neighbors, Flower Hill bans cannabis retail
Flower Hill can be added to the list of North Shore villages that will not permit the retail sale of cannabis. The move comes after Floral Park, New Hyde Park and Williston Park all took the same...
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August marks birthday festivities for shelter dogs
For rescue dogs, August 1st isn’t just the start of a new month. It also marked DOGust 1st, the universal birthday for all shelter canines at the North Shore Animal League America rescue center in Port...
View ArticleSchool COVID guidelines – everything we know so far
By Samuele Petruccelli and Robert Pelaez After some state leaders decided not to offer schools coronavirus health guidance, it is largely up to local district administrators to create their own plans...
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After year of loss, Manhasset rallies for families
When Diane Bollen’s students bore the stresses of high school, they could count on her empathy. When Kevin Driscoll’s classmates shuffled between classes, they could bet on his “What’s up?” in the...
View ArticleCar speeding at 106 MPH in Quogue crash, cops say
The driver who rammed into an oncoming Uber in Quogue was speeding at more than 100 MPH before the collision that killed himself and four others, police said Friday. Justin Mendez, 22, of Brookhaven,...
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