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An official statement from The Elmont Excelsior Inc:

  According to reports, Elmont may soon become home to the New York Islanders professional hockey team. Tonight, July 10th, 2017 at 6 p.m. inside Elmont Memorial Library, residents and community members will have a chance to give testimony about the proposed Belmont Park redevelopment. Because Elmont is a hamlet — not a town/village — the community relies heavily onContinueContinue reading “TONIGHT: Elmont Residents Unite for Public Meeting To Determine the Community’s Future”

The letter was written on behalf of Elmont, Floral Park, Cambria Heights, and Franklin Square communities, to name a few.  Source: Elmont Online 10 Years is Enough! Counting from the conception of the vision plan in 2007 to the current re-submittal of proposals in 2017 one decade later and not much has been accomplished, wellContinueContinue reading “Hockey in Elmont? Residents Propose a Different Set of Plans in New Community Letter”

I prefer to live in a diverse community. Written by Alexandria Harvey* This sentence is intriguing to me—as a writer—because it contains an adverbial prepositional inside of an infinitive phrase that acts as the direct object of the independent clause. This sentence is intriguing to me—as a human being—because it is true. While figures haveContinueContinue reading “The Elephants in Elmont: What Good Is Diversity?”

Written by Karl Valere Two years ago, Elmont Memorial High School Class of 2015 Salutatorian, Harold Ekeh, made national and global news headlines after being accepted into all eight of the country’s prestigious Ivy League universities — for starters. Just one year later, Class of 2016 Valedictorian, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, too, achieved the elusive Ivy LeagueContinueContinue reading “Elmont Memorial High School Has Quietly Built an Extraordinary Science Research Program”