Tag: Grumman

“Our job was to put guys on the moon, and that’s what we did,” says Mike Lisa, a retired Grumman engineer who helped build the Apollo lunar module.

When President John F. Kennedy gave his famous “We choose to go to the moon” speech in 1962, it was Grumman Corporation workers on Long Island who made it happen seven years later.

As usual, the annual review of the Press’ most-clicked stories of the year looks nothing like the editors’ choices for top stories of the previous 12 months. Instead of big political and business news stories that affect many Long Islanders’ lives, readers instead flocked to articles about creepy clowns, serial killers and video games.

A diverse team of runners dubbed The Selden Hills Warriors band together to battle the unforgiving "Hills of the Seven Sisters" aka "Then Seven Beasts," a harrowing set of steep climbs ascending upwards through the communities of Selden and Farmingville, often conquering not just the elevated terrain, but achieving personal triumphs along the way, too.

Subterranean toxic plume threatens to contaminate even more public drinking water supplies.

"There's a confidential nature to our contract and I have to respect the wishes of our client."