1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (250+ words) Sunday, September 13, 2026 “I am the sister of firefighter Thomas Hetzel and the wife of firefighter Christopher Dand,” said Dorine Hetzel-Dand, of Garden City South, during her keynote speech at Friday’s Town of Hempstead 9/11 memorial service. “My brother, Thomas, perished on…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (729+ words) For Michael McNelis, Sept. 11, 2001, began with an answering machine message. McNelis, 54, was home in Malverne preparing for his overnight shift with the New York City Police Department when he was told to report to work. A member of the NYPD…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (611+ words) When the planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Jessica Ellerbe was a seventh grader sitting inside the chapel at Long Island Lutheran Middle School in Brookville. She remembers the sudden seriousness that swept through the school. Students whose…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (626+ words) The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center irrevocably changed life for New Yorkers. Parents, siblings, friends and neighbors were lost, leaving families shattered and communities around the world forever affected. Each year, the promise to “never forget” carries renewed…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (682+ words) Five Seaford High School alumni were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and their names continue to shape generations of students through an award built not around grades, but around the qualities their families believed defined them: service, character and…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (653+ words) For Malverne resident Anisa Mkwanazi-Sessoms, Sept. 11 is not only a day she remembers. It is also the day that changed her family’s life in ways they would not fully understand for years. Mkwanazi-Sessoms was in second grade at Maurice W....

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (659+ words) Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, students at Mepham High School are learning about an event they never experienced firsthand while carrying forward a tradition created to ensure its victims are not forgotten. For social studies teacher Kerry Dennis, the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (716+ words) Long Island residents continue to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died and the profound changes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. For many, the day remains defined by memories of fear, uncertainty and loss — but also by the courage…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (647+ words) As the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, I find myself thinking about my biggest inspiration: my father. At the time of the attacks, my family was preparing for my second birthday party. My dad, Raymond L. Griffin III, was a…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (287+ words) Like many Long Island and New York communities, Freeport’s losses connected to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are painful scars on local households and the village at large. These losses, however, have not prevented Freeport from making concerted efforts to remember…...