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They’re your friends and neighbors Our in-depth coverage of town news, local schools, student scholars and athletes to neighbors give us household penetration that is several times the rate of daily newspapers. We’re especially attractive to young families. Products like our Kindergarten Yearbook series give us full access to all of the newest students across 20 school districts and introduces young families to our papers, giving advertisers access to that important demographic group.

Nassau county demographics Population, July 1, 2022 ....................1,383,726 Median age1 ...............................41.8 years old Median Household Income ................$126,576 Age and Sex Persons under 5 years ........................................5.1% Persons under 18 years ....................................21.2% Persons 19-64 years old....................................59.9% Persons 65 years and over ...............................18.9% Male ..................................................................51.2% Female ...............................................................50.7% Race and Origin White ................................................................70.8% Hispanic or Latino ...........................................17.9% Black or African American ..............................13.4% Asian .................................................................12.9% American Indian and Alaska Native ................0.6% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander... 0.1% Two or More Races............................................ 2.2% Families and Living Arrangements Households, 2015-2019................................. 453,576 Persons per household, 2017-2021.................... 3.03

Economy Per capita income (2017-2021) .................... $55,763 In civilian labor force ......................................65.4% In civilian labor force, female ........................58.7% Total retail sales, 2017...................... 26,841,202,000 Total retail sales per capita, 2017 .............. $19,776 Housing Housing units ................................................ 479,297 Owner-occupied housing units.......................81.7% Median value of those housing units ....... $560,100 Median gross rent, 2017-2021 ....................... $1,940 Computer and Internet Use Households with a computer.............................95% Households with broadband Internet ..............92% Education, person age 25+ High school graduate or higher ....................91.7% Bachelor’s degree or higher ...........................47.5% Health With a disability, under age 65 ........................4.9% Without health insurance, under age 65 ........4.2% Source: niche.com, places-to-live, nassau-county-ny

Suffolk county demographics Population, July 1, 2022 ....................1,525,465 Median age1 ...............................41.7 years old Median Household Income ................$111,660

In many ways, Long Island is the community media capital of the world, with a well-educated population extraordinarily involved with the religious, political, social and educational life of the area and hungry for hyperlocal news. Richner Communications has augmented its own trusted brands with a network of more than 100 providers in Nassau and Suffolk County, making it possible for advertisers to access this audience with a single buy.

Age and Sex Persons under 5 years ........................................5.1% Persons under 18 years ....................................20.3% Persons 19-64 years old....................................61.5% Persons 65 years and over ...............................18.2% Male ..................................................................49.7% Female ...............................................................50.3% Race and Origin White ................................................................82.8% Hispanic or Latino ...........................................21.4% Black or African American ................................9.5% Asian ...................................................................4.8% American Indian and Alaska Native ................0.7% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander... 0.1% Two or More Races............................................ 2.1% Families and Living Arrangements Households, 2017-2021................................. 505,564 Persons per household, 2017-2021.................... 2.96

Economy Per capita income (2017-2021) .................... $49,404 In civilian labor force, total .............................65.6% In civilian labor force, female ........................60.6% Total retail sales, 2017.....................$27,801,053,000 Total retail sales per capita, 2017 ............... $18,736 Housing Housing units, July 1, 2022 ........................... 580,676 Owner-occupied housing units.......................81.8% Median value of those housing units ....... $436,300 Median gross rent, 2017-2021 ........................ $1895 Computer and Internet Use Households with a computer..........................94.7% Households with broadband Internet ...........90.5% Education, persons age 25+ High school graduate or higher ....................90.4% Bachelor’s degree or higher ...........................38.3% Health With a disability, under age 65 ........................6.1% Without health insurance, under age 65 ........5.4% Source: Source: niche.com, places-to-live, suffolk-county-ny

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Living Large — our newest brand — mailed to 50,000 homes in targeted communities, offers advertisers BIG ads at small prices in a broadsheet New York Times style format.

The Orthodox Jewish community of Nassau County wanted a voice for its own concerns — local, national and even international. Richner answered the call with The Jewish Star and thejewishstar.com, a paper and website with a uniquely local perspective on a wide range of issues.

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Thanksgiving in Hempstead Through the Decades

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HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE TRUSTEE Waylyn Hobbs, Jr., far left, former New York Mets players Dwight Gooden, Art Shamsky, and Ed Kranepool, Village Trustee Lamont Johnson, and Deputy Village Mayor Charles Renfroe kick off the free turkey distribution at Kennedy Park. BY REINE BETHANY, Village Historian

What has Thanksgiving Day traditionally meant in Hempstead? A variety of things, according to historic papers. On November 30, 1871, the Queens County Sentinel’s Thanksgiving page gave most of its space to a sentimental love story centered on young Long Island farm folk. In 1894, when Rev. Creighton Spencer officiated the St. George’s Church Thanksgiving service, “The chancel was appropriately decorated with grain, vegetables and fruits, which were afterward given to the deserving poor.” By 1897, the Town of Hempstead was known as “New York’s Playground” for New York socialites. Thanksgiving Day saw Meadow Brook Hunt Club members streaking on their horses across a five-mile steeplechase course in Wheatley Hills. During World War I, in 1918 and 1919 up to eighty thousand soldiers crowded Mitchel Field. The Hempstead Village Citizens’ Committee arranged recreation venues for off-duty soldiers. From the Utowanna Hotel on Main Street to Christ’s First Presbyterian Church, from the Red Cross to the Knights of Columbus, every village organization participated. Soldiers on Thanksgiving Day in those years had many thanks to give Hempstead. The focus on giving continued. During the 1920s to through 1940s, the American Legion Post 390 hosted a Ragamuffin Day parade for 500-600 children, and organizations like the Kiwanis Club and the Hempstead Debs dished out free Thanksgiving dinners to the needy of the village. This year, faced with a pandemic, our village’s charitable programs are even more important. To name a few, the Mary Brennan INN at 100 Madison Avenue held a contactless Thanksgiving Food Drive on November 14 and the Village of Hempstead has hosted three turkey giveaways: at Village Hall on Friday, November 20; at GB’s Sneaker Terminal on Jackson Street on Monday, November 23; and at Kennedy Park on Tuesday, November 24. The November 24 event enjoyed the presence, not only of village trustees, but of former Major League Baseball players Art Shamsky, Ed Kranepool, and Dwight Gooden. After delivering encouraging words in a brief opening ceremony, the dignitaries personally started doling out free frozen turkeys to 550 Hempstead residents. The village will continue its giving programs throughout the holiday season.

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A Vietnam Prisoner of War bracelet that was bought in the early 1970s to honor the servicemen that were captured and found in a box of memories will be given to the family of Donald Randner who survived his imprisonment but died of lung cancer in 2005. Bonnie Sperry, the section administrator of the Lawrence-based National Council Jewish Women-Peninsula Section, unearthed the silver metal bracelet and after watching a documentary this summer on the women who went to Paris in 1969 during the peace talks to lobby for the release of their husbands she Googled Rander’s name. Fortuitously, the NCJW was hosting a virtual talk on Nov. 3 with Heath Lee who wrote the book “The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home.” Sperry shard her story and Lee agreed to put Sperry in contact with Rander’s former wife Andrea, the couple divorced in 1993, who was one of the spouses whose story is part of the book. “I think that right now in our world in our country there is such sadness and such uncertainty this to me brightened my spirits,” Sperry said about giving the bracelet to Rander and her daughters, Lysa and Page. Sperry mailed the bracelet this week. Sperry said her parents, Rita and Ben, bought the bracelet to support an organization. She said she remembers the talk around the family’s dinner table in Massapequa, especially with older brothers David and Michael eligible for the military draft. “I am so excited that I tracked down the family and it’s all because of NCJW,” Sperry said. Rander, originally from the Bronx, attended Adelphi University before working for First National City Bank of New York, Capitol Airlines and British Overseas Airlines. Drafted in 1961, he was a military policeman and served in France and the United States. Four years later Rander went into army intelligence, became an instructor and volunteered for duty in Vietnam in 1967. He was taken

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