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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 May 14, 2013
Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his plan Monday for the embattled Long Island Power Authority to turn its day-to-day operations over to Public Service Electric & Gas Co. of New Jersey.
By Vickie Moller May 09, 2013
An out-of-court settlement was reached Tuesday in two wrongful death lawsuits filed against the Town of Smithtown in 2008 when two Centereach men died after driving off a town-owned ramp into the Nissequogue River.
By Vickie Moller May 09, 2013
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced Tuesday in a news release that $475.25 million in relief funding is being made available for 234 rebuilding projects along the Eastern Seaboard following Superstorm Sandy.
By Vickie Moller May 08, 2013
Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker announced Tuesday that a new SAVE (School Active Violence Emergency) hotline will be implemented in Suffolk County Schools to improve police response times to emergencies.
By Vickie Moller May 07, 2013
Jonathan Elsalam, 27, a former Bellport High School teacher, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday to two felony charges of rape in the third degree, four felony charges of a criminal sexual act in ...
By Vickie Moller May 06, 2013
Michael Hammond of Massapequa Park was taken into custody Sunday after allegedly removing a pocketbook from the cart of an 86-year-old woman at a North Bellmore Stop and Shop.
By Vickie Moller May 06, 2013
Police are investigating an accidental shooting at the Federal Courthouse in Central Islip that took place at about 9:30 this morning.
By Vickie Moller May 03, 2013
According to the Labor Department's monthly employment report, the unemployment rate edged lower to 7.5 percent in April, due in part to jobs gains and to a 35-year low labor-force participation rate.
By Vickie Moller May 02, 2013
Sustainable Long Island, a non-profit organization that has been working toward economic development, environmental health and social equity for Long Islanders since 1996, has just been awarded $130,000 in grant funding from the Unitarian Universalist ...
By Vickie Moller May 02, 2013
Imagine coming home to the overpowering smell of oil in your home every day--for eight years.
By Vickie Moller May 01, 2013
Allan Concepcion, 38, was arrested at his home in Mount Sinai Tuesday morning for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student earlier this year.
By Vickie Moller April 30, 2013
Six months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Rockaway Junior/Senior High School, filling it with five feet of water, 1,300 students returned to the renovated building for the first time yesterday.
By Vickie Moller April 27, 2013
Die hard Twinkie lovers prepare to celebrate--they're due back on store shelves nationally this summer!
By Vickie Moller April 26, 2013
State Education officials are investigating dozens of Long Island school districts for allegedly using controversial election and voting tracking software to influence budget voter turnout.
By Vickie Moller April 25, 2013
"I believe that Dzhokhar is innocent. I don't believe that he did this. He was just so good of a person, he really was," Britney Smith, 23, told reporters after FBI agents questioned her about ...
