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  • 2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Kevin Redding

    At the end of a long week of acting their age, a group of Long Islanders 50 and over gathered at a skate park in East Northport. No, they didn’t get lost on the way to the pickleball court on this chilly Sunday afternoon. And they weren’t there to scold reckless youth, but to reclaim a bit of their own, push their limits, get stoked and try not to get (too) hurt. “Falls feel a lot more painful now,” skateboarder Howard Cho, 50, said with a laugh. He pointed to the hip protector he was wearing.

  • 1 month ago | newsday.com | Kevin Redding

    Long Island’s independent bookstores are enjoying an unexpected resurgence in the post-pandemic years, earning dedicated followings despite the long shadows cast by Amazon and big-box retailers. More than a half dozen local shops have opened on Long Island post-2020, becoming gathering places in their communities.

  • Oct 31, 2024 | newsday.com | Kevin Redding

    In April 2007, Ann Pellegrino said she was driving to her Centereach home when she saw people in need living in the woods and walking along Middle Country Road. The sight took her back to a time a decade earlier, when she was single with three kids aged 2, 6 and 10, juggling two nursing jobs without a car and relying on canned meals and nonperishables from local food pantries. “Things were hard, and money was tight,” she recalled.

  • Oct 8, 2024 | newsday.com | Kevin Redding

    As a child, Lily Greenwald tried skateboarding. But she didn’t stick with it and life rolled on — until now. The former East Moriches resident, 28, got back on a board for the first time since she was a kid this past summer. And after four sessions at Andy Kessler Skate Park in Manhattan’s Riverside Park, she said she was not only able to do tricks but also achieved her dream of dropping in on a ramp. “It was a huge adrenaline rush.

  • Sep 5, 2024 | newsday.com | Kevin Redding

    As a child, Matthew Puvogel, 40, loved playing Little League baseball. But the game was often a struggle, as his night and peripheral vision slowly dwindled over time due to a condition called Bardet-Biedl syndrome. He could manage playing the infield, but in the outfield, the Massapequa Park native said, “I was in trouble. . . . I couldn’t see where the ball was. My parents said I got hit with it a lot.”His sight declined further in high school, and by college he was using a cane to navigate.

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Kevin Redding
Kevin Redding @KevinJRedding
20 Mar 18

The mother of one of the #RockyPoint students suspended for walking out March 24 is proposing legal action against the district for "violating its own code of conduct." @ACLU #NationalSchoolWalkout https://t.co/UgbZprfe9t

Kevin Redding
Kevin Redding @KevinJRedding
20 Mar 18

About a dozen of the 30 #RockyPoint students who walked out last week, and were suspended by the district for it, took to the board of ed. meeting last night to voice their concerns over the punishment. #NationalSchoolWalkout https://t.co/qErteOpMFN

Kevin Redding
Kevin Redding @KevinJRedding
14 Mar 18

A group of nearly 30 #RockyPoint students participated in #NationalWalkoutDay this morning against district orders that those who do so will be subject to "disciplinary action." https://t.co/TRAJslVSlq