By Leader Staff   The City of Glen Cove has been named a "2025 Tree City USA" by the Arbor Day Foundation, for the community's strong record of planting, growing and maintaining healthy trees in the city.   "Reaching our 25th year as a Tree City USA is a testament to Glen Cove's dedication to environmental stewardship," said Glen Cove Mayor Pam Panzenbeck.   The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit with a mission to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees.

By Leader Staff     Erin Lipinsky, a driving force behind the "Freezin' for a Reason Polar Plunge" was honored by Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips.   In a ceremony held last week, Phillips honored Great Neck resident Lipinsky for his outstanding fundraising as the leading individual contributor to the Freezin’ for a Reason Polar Plunge.   The "Freezin' for a Reason" polar plunge was held on March 7th to benefit the Special Olympics of New York.   “Erin’s unwavering p

By Steve Levy   Let’s talk about the Iran situation as fellow Americans — not as Democrats or Republicans or as Trump haters or Trump lovers. Let’s talk about Iran as it will affect our present and future generations. So much of the discussion comes from the perspective of people who are rooting for their political side of the aisle. This is too important an issue to look at in political terms. Regardless of our political affiliations, we all love our children and want what i

By Leader Staff   After a tragic March 10th fire that destroyed the Library and Learning Center in the historic West Side School in Laurel Hollow - and saw smoke and water damage in much of the rest of building - a breakneck repair effort will see the school re-open in just two weeks - on Monday, April 13th.   "We look forward to welcoming everyone back to West Side School on April 13th," posted Cold Spring Harbor Schools Superintendent Joseph Monastero.    The devastating fi

By Leader Staff   A 32-year-old disabled Oyster Bay woman has gone missing, and a dragnet of police search and rescue, helicopter searches, police dog and bloodhound search units, local fire departments, and neighborhood patrols have been searching for her.   Missing is Brittany Kritis-Garip who was last seen at about 8PM on Friday, March 20th at the intersection of Ivy Street and Jordan Avenue, just off Berry Hill Road in Oyster Bay.   Brittany's family has put out a series

After two weeks of the American and Israeli military engagement against the Ayatollah regime of the Islamic Republic in Iran, most of the top regime leadership is dead, the Iranian air force, navy and antiaircraft forces are almost completely destroyed, and the Ayatollahs' terror and enforcement thugs - the Revolutionary Guard - are heavily bombed, decapitated and crumbling. The fall of a murder regime that has killed thousands of Americans and organized terror attacks around

By Leader Staff   A Rally called this past Sunday at the Village Green Park in Great Neck drew over 300 people - including North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena - cheering and supporting the American foreign policy to topple the Ayatollahs and restore freedom to Iran.   “So many of our residents here in North Hempstead remember a homeland that was once filled with beauty, freedom, and promise – before it fell under the shadow of tyranny in Iran," stated Supervisor DeSena

By Rupert Deedes   Sherry Xue Li, age 54, of Oyster Bay and her Co-Defendant Lianbo Wang, pled guilty to operating a long-running investment fraud in which she and her co-defendant solicited more than $30 million from primarily foreign (mostly Chinese) investors for a bogus US development project – with the fictitious name "Thompson Education Center" -- promising it would enable investors to obtain lawful permanent residence visas in the United States.   It was a fraud: Now L

By Leader Staff   The Town of North Hempstead Building Department has a long, notorious history of incompetence, corruption, sloth - and outright criminality - that has cost town residents hundreds of millions.   When she was elected four years ago, Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena (R-Manhasset) made cleaning-out the Building Department a huge priority.   But for two years she was blocked by a hostile Democratic majority on the Town Board that used the Building Department as a

By Leader Staff   The Rodeway Inn in Huntington has again been identified in criminal arrests as being at the center of sex trafficking and human trafficking in Suffolk County.   Last month, Suffolk police arrested Eric Acevedo, age 36, of the Bronx, for being part of an international human sex trafficking ring that brought women to the Rodeway Inn in Huntington for rape and sex abuse. Acevedo was charged with promoting prostitution for trafficking women and girls to the Rode