A local military hero recently received the boost he deserved. Some 200 people paraded in the cold rain down Broadview Drive in Huntington on March 31 to support U.S. Marine First Lieutenant James Byler. Lt. Byler stepped on an improvised explosive device in 2010 while fighting in Afghanistan and was forced to have both legs […]
Great Neck native Rob Vassilarakis, 40, has come face-to-face with the hell of drug addiction, but he narrowly escaped with his life thanks in part to a different kind of addiction: an addiction to running. Vassilarakas will be competing in his second New York City Marathon on Nov. 6, and the memories of his troubled […]
Following the final tally in 2009, Tom Suozzi could do nothing but sit and contemplate why his effort to regain his old job as County Executive proved unsuccessful, falling a mere 386 votes short in the 2009 election. And while it was an extremely close race between Suozzi and his Republican counterpart, at second glance the […]
