Jackson Heights
By Connor Adams Sheets
A Hindu priest finally got some justice last week after being forced to toil for $50 a week in a Corona temple for seven years.
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Jackson Heights
By Rebecca Henely
Administrators, parents and community leaders banded together as part of a task force at IS 61 last week to combat school bullying, which is a problem for 81 percent of students at the Corona school.
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Astoria Times
By Rebecca Henely
It was a night where visitors to the library were allowed to make some noise. With a slideshow, a live band, presents and a big cake, Queens Library officials, legislators and community members celebrated the Woodside Library’s 100th anniversary last Thursday.
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Astoria Times
By Rebecca Henely
A Rikers Island prisoner who killed one man and attempted to finish off two others at the scene in Woodside last year pleaded guilty Friday to trying to hire a hitman to murder the two witnesses so they could not testify against him, the Queens district attorney’s office said.
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