The ingredients for success are simple, according to three Long Island entrepreneurs who started local businesses that grew into national companies: passion, perseverance and luck. But for these three, raw talent…Read more
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A dash of Delta charm
A chat with chef Bobby Bouyer is like a stroll down Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter. In his faded Cajun accent and with warmth in his voice, he described the simple joys of cooking tangy molasses-smoked barbeque… Read more
Oh-so-sweet frozen treats on Malverne street
When you walk into Scooop, Malverne’s new ice cream shop, it feels like you’ve walked into a scene from Now and Then, the 1995 movie that made many a little girl wish for a time machine to travel back to the early 1970s… Read more
Gennaro celebrates victory for Queens’ endangered wetlands
I wrote this press release in November 2007 to distribute to the media following a press conference I coordinated, in which Councilman James Gennaro announced his successful mission to protect New York City’s endangered wetlands. In order to research… Read more
Teens use aerosol can to start school fire
They were really playing with fire.
Two 14-year-old teens who were charged with starting a fire on Monday that damaged a West Hempstead elementary school set papers on fire and then threw an aerosol can into the blaze to see what would happen… Read more