Glen Cove resident Ashley Harding discovered she is the first golfer at Kellenberg Memorial High School to win an individual state championship after reading about her achievement on the school’s website.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi, left, News 12 anchor and Grand Marshal Carol Silva and Congressman Peter King marched down Main Street in Farmingdale during the village's annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, March 11, 2018. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
News 12's Carol Silva Has 'Fabulous' Farmingdale Grand Marshal Day
Carol Silva is no stranger to parades. The longtime News 12 Long Island anchor used to stand along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with her Irish mother for many St. Patrick’s Day parades while growing up in Hicksville. As a
Sports talk radio legend Mike Francesa grew up on Oswego Avenue in East Atlantic Beach and attended Long Beach Catholic Regional School, where he played CYO basketball. (Photo: John Filo/CBS)
Mike Francesa Remembers His Long Beach Roots
Rick Evrard’s enduring childhood memories of Mike Francesa are the outside jump shots the future radio star repeatedly hit on basketball courts at Nevada and Brookline avenues.
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Former Equity Trader Ian Linde Finds Happiness in Rock Memorabilia
Fresh from the “I Worked on Wall Street But It Left Me Unfulfilled” file, meet Ian Linde, late of the $40 billion Jeffries Group and a successful equity trader with Lehman Brothers-Barclays before that.
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Students perform research in a lab at the Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation Center at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Tech Incubators Hatching Startups Across Long Island
The state’s Start-Up NY program may be a bit of a dud, but that hasn’t slowed the pace of other university-based programs that seek to support and commercialize innovation from students, staff and the region’s sundry entrepreneurs.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. image: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York
Unpacking Frank Lloyd Wright’s Archive at MoMA →
Shortly after his Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was completed in 1923, Frank Lloyd Wright published a book with photographs and plans of the lodge. Though it was demolished in 1963, the building has made a resurgence as the centerpiece for a major exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Grace Brandt, left, and her twin, Alice Brandt, at their prom in Syosset June 21, 2017. Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Floral Park Twins Celebrate as Champs at Prom
Floral Park Memorial High School’s prom Wednesday night capped a memorable senior year for identical twins Alice and Grace Brandt. The siblings have played volleyball together on the same teams since fifth grade, a lengthy journey that culminated in winning a county championship with the girls varsity team last November.
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Kevin Duke of Oyster Bay High School, who has enrolled in the ROTC program for college, with his guidance counselor Deanna Cali, at the prom at Woodbury Country Club on June 22, 2017. Photo Credit: Joseph Kellard
Oyster Bay High School Teen Enjoys Prom as College ROTC Awaits
Oyster Bay High School’s Kevin Duke spent his senior year knowing his career path. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in September granted Duke a full four-year scholarship to attend North Carolina State University that requires him to serve in the U.S. Navy for at least five years after graduation.
Read MoreLong Beach’s Charlie McAvoy Impresses in NHL Debut
Just three weeks after playing his final collegiate hockey game for Boston University, Long Beach native Charlie McAvoy found himself in the Stanley Cup playoffs, showered with high praise from many newfound fans around the country and at home.
Read MoreMalverne Looks to Turn Corner
Malverne bats have too often left the bases loaded or stranded men in scoring positions, validating head coach Joe Dunn’s preseason concerns about his offense.
Read MoreDefense Sets Tone For Clarke
That four out of five captains on Clarke girls’ lacrosse team are defenders speaks to head coach Rich Aragona’s philosophy. He builds teams based on defense, and this year’s squad consists of mostly experienced seniors and green sophomores led by a gritty defensive unit.
Read MoreDefense First For East Meadow
East Meadow lacrosse looks to lean on its defense to return to the playoffs after posting an 8-8 record that included a loss to Port Washington in the first-round of the Nassau Class A boys’ playoffs last season.
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Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma in 1963. (© Danny Lyon, New York & Magnum Photos, New York / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.)
Danny Lyon Exhibit: Reminder of America’s Ideals
A photo in the exhibit Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement at Hofstra Museum perfectly captures the best element of that cause.
Read MoreTarp Fraud Charges Leveled Against Execs of Failed Fla. Bank
Two former executives of the failed GulfSouth Private Bank in Destin, Fla., and another man have been indicted on federal charges of defrauding the Troubled Asset Relief Program of $7.5 million.
Read MoreFormer Pinnacle Director Agrees to Larger Fine for Insider Trading
A former director at Pinnacle Financial Partners who pleaded guilty to insider trading agreed to pay a heftier fine after a judge rejected the initial penalty as being too low.
Read MoreVernon Hill Returns to U.S. Banking as Chairman of Pa. Bank
Vernon Hill is back. The legendary founder and CEO of the former Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, N.J., on Monday was named chairman at Republic First Bancorp in Philadelphia. Hill has been a major investor in and a consultant to the $1.7 billion-asset Republic First since late last decade and over the years Republic First has added many Commerce-like features to its branches, including seven-day-a-week banking and free coin counting.
Read MoreFreeport Survives Baldwin Surge
Freeport quarterback Rashad Tucker tossed a 54-yard pass down the left sideline to fellow senior Jaelin Hood to defeat Baldwin, 26-21, the last of five touchdowns scored in the waning minutes of a Conference I football semifinal at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium on Nov. 10.
Read MoreOceanside Falls on Late Touchdown
Oceanside’s football season ended in heartbreak last Saturday with a 31-28 first-round Conference I playoff loss at fourth-seeded Massapequa in a game that featured multiple lead changes in the final minutes.
Read MoreOceanside Falls in Quarterfinals
Oceanside fell 2-1 to No. 3 Calhoun in the Nassau Class AA boys’ soccer quarterfinals on Oct. 26, dashing coach Joe Pumo’s expectations that his senior-heavy, sixth-seeded squad could make a deep playoff run.
Read MoreClarke in Conference Driver's Seat
After sweeping Elmont last Friday, Clarke boys’ volleyball improved to 13-3 and is two wins from locking up a second conference title in four years and the top seed in the playoffs.
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