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Vickie Moller is a professional freelance writer and a regular contributor to LongIsland.com. Her focus is on Long Island’s schools and creating informative directories based on themes and events around the Island. She also contributes stories from personal interviews with Long Island professionals and newsmakers. With a tremendous respect for the power of the written word, Vickie works hard to serve her readers with accurate, timely and comprehensive news and information.
Vickie can be reached at VickieM@longisland.com
By Vickie Moller March 07, 2013
SEOUL--Today, just hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to discuss new sanctions to restrain North Korea's weapons program and restrict unlawful overseas trade, the isolated police state threatened nuclear retaliation against the United ...
By Vickie Moller March 06, 2013
The National Weather Service has upgraded winter storm Saturn to a winter weather advisory, effective 6 p.m. this evening to 6 p.m. Thursday, with significant snow possible for eastern Long Island.
By Vickie Moller March 05, 2013
Following the 2008 recession, thousands of private sector jobs affecting most industries on Long Island were lost, personal income dropped, housing values declined dramatically, the numbers of foreclosures grew at an alarming rate and health ...
By Vickie Moller March 05, 2013
In efforts to ensure the safety of our children while riding on school buses, the New York State Senate passes legislation Monday toughening restrictions on school bus drivers and monitors.
By Vickie Moller March 04, 2013
After investment banking firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 of its 960 employees in the 2001World Trade Center attacks, the company's Chairman and CEO, Howard W. Lutnick, and his sister, Edie Lutnick, co-founded The Cantor Fitzgerald ...
By Vickie Moller February 28, 2013
For the past six years, TV producer Liam Murphy has been recruiting well-known celebrities to appear in "REAL Change--Artists for Education," a television special due to air in April to celebrate the teachers who made ...
By Vickie Moller February 27, 2013
Never before in the history of our nation have women been drafted into military service; but, according to legal experts and military historians, the recent decision by the Obama administration to lift the ban on ...
By Vickie Moller February 26, 2013
An unidentified seventh grade student from the Finley Middle School in Glen Cove was taken into custody late last week for creating a "hit list" of faculty, students and family members.
By Vickie Moller February 26, 2013
The City of Long Beach is facing one of the biggest reconstruction projects on Long Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy--rebuilding it's more than two-mile long Boardwalk that was severely damaged by the storm, ...
By Vickie Moller February 22, 2013
One day following President Obama's State of the Union address outlining a series of bold proposals to strengthen the middle class and increase access to high-quality education, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the ...
By Vickie Moller February 22, 2013
Joseph Tutaj, a popular 15-year-old Seaford High School sophomore died suddenly on Tuesday during a trip to Disneyland with 80 members of the school band.
By Vickie Moller February 21, 2013
Abrakadoodle is an award-winning mobile art education program that has offered innovative art programs to children all across the country since 2003.
By Vickie Moller February 20, 2013
Long Islanders who lost their homes or suffered extensive property damage in Hurricane Sandy may qualify for help from the Internal Revenue Service.
By Vickie Moller February 19, 2013
At first glance, looking out over the scenic, placid waters surrounding Long Island, it would seem that they have returned to normal in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy; but a closer inspection reveals quite another ...
By Vickie Moller February 15, 2013
The New York State Higher Education Services Corporation announced earlier this week that student loan repayment relief for Hurricane Sandy-impacted borrowers would be extended through June 30, 2013.
