South Side girls’ soccer downed Garden City, 1-0, on the road last Friday, sweeping the dual regular-season meetings between the rivals and securing the one seed for the Nassau Class A playoffs, which begin this Saturday.
Read MoreDynamic Duo Leads Long Beach
Seniors Maggie Aroesty and Kristen Romano, two of the top high school swimmers in New York State, have returned to the squad after competing in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials this summer. But John Skudin, who in his 12 years as Long Beach’s head coach has not won the counties, knows that having such an exceptional duo doesn’t necessarily make his team a favorite to win it all.
Read MoreDirector at Citizens in Ohio Resigns Over Email Server Dispute
A director at Citizens Independent Bancorp in Logan, Ohio, resigned after members of management chastised him for an email security breach.
Read MoreFranklin Doesn't Wait for Deal to Close to Hire Its Target's CEO
Franklin Financial Network in Tennessee hit a roadblock in its plan to buy Civic Bank & Trust in Nashville, but that didn't stop Franklin from hiring away Civic's chief executive.
Read MoreThe Art of Poaching Talent at Park Sterling in N.C.
Park Sterling in Charlotte, N.C., is making a habit of treating its rivals as a farm system for banking talent.
Read More50 Schools Now Call PNC Their 'Official' Bank
PNC Financial Services Group has been named the official bank of the University of Kentucky, its 50th such partnership with a college or university.
Read MoreInvestor to Seacoast: Board Elections Show 'Profound Dissatisfaction'
Another shot has been fired in the ongoing feud between an investor group and Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida in Stuart.
Read MoreBanking Chief to Become CEO at CoBank
The chief banking officer of CoBank in Denver will be its next CEO. The $118 billion-asset company, a member of the Farm Credit System, said Friday that the banking chief, Tom Halverson, will succeed Bob Engel as chief executive in January.
Read MoreCalifornia Bankers Association Names Board Chair
Louise Walker, the head of First Northern Bank in Dixon, Calif., will be wearing an additional hat over the next year — chair of the California Bankers Association.
Read MoreBluetooth Beacons Start to Connect Banks with Retailers
Bluetooth beacons — small nightlight-sized devices that can communicate with a mobile app as shoppers move throughout a store — may have the same potential for bank branches as they do for mega-retailers like Target Corp.
Read MoreLong Island Lutheran Kickline Coach Transitions from Ballet to Hip-hop
Melissa Essigman’s dance background is exclusively in ballet. Yet the first-year head coach of Long Island Lutheran High School’s varsity kickline team is starting to make waves in the world of hip-hop.
Read MoreMLK Center Ceremony Celebrates Many ‘Firsts’
Less than a year ago, Anissa Moore was preparing for spring break, ready to hop on a JetBlue flight to take her far from Nassau Community College, where she has been a communications professor for the past 19 years.
Read More‘Force Awakens’ Sparks Advanced Ticket Sales in Long Beach
Sightings of Darth Vader-clad moviegoers are expected when “The Force Awakens,” the seventh in the “Star Wars” saga of movies, opens Friday at more than 4,100 theaters across the nation, including Long Beach Cinema 4.
Read MoreLBFD Members Rebuild Vandalized 9/11 Memorial
Bill Murphy, who built and maintained a September 11 memorial on Oceanview yards from his California Street home, noticed early Saturday that the metal frame that holds a flagpole was torn from the memorial’s base and thrown in the street.
Read MoreBeyond the Lens
At the same time Apple unveiled new or upgraded iPhones, iPads and other products to the usual press fanfare last week, Canon U.S.A. held its largest technology showcase, an event it stages at cities worldwide only every five years.
Read MoreRiding the Wave of Vinyl’s Revival
When Alex Abrash landed a job after college in 1984 with a Poughkeepsie company that released classical music on open reel-to-reel tapes, the vinyl record was king of musical formats, and a new technology, a compact disc, was poised to dethrone it.
Read MorePaddleboard Shop Thrives in Babylon
Karen Marvin opened South Shore Paddleboards in May 2014, about a year after she first tried stand-up paddleboarding.
Read MoreCrafting Beer-friendly Laws
Since he sold his first keg in March 2009, Greg Martin, co-owner of Long Ireland Brewery in Riverhead, has averaged 25 percent annual growth and 35 percent last year, reflecting the soaring popularity for craft beer across Long Island and New York in recent years.
Xhale: The Starbucks of Vapor Shops
Xhale Custom Vapors is nestled in a nondescript strip mall in Ronkonkoma. But the shop’s interior sports a brown leather couch, sage walls, and cherry wood tables and chairs and glass display cases, a decor designed to distinguish it from hookah bars and head shops.
Read MoreWho Says Smartphone Shutterbugs Don’t Take Photography Seriously?
When Tom Reuter started an Instagram account in 2010, he populated his page, treuter18, with selfies, memes and other self-described worthless items. Last year, though, when his girlfriend, Eva Diaz, an avid photographer, noticed some creative images he took with his smartphone camera, she encouraged him to take photography more seriously.
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