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01.04.2024 Education

2023 Educator of the Year: Rebecca Szymanski

Rebecca Szymanski has been fighting for her life since the day she was born. Born with a congenital heart condition — pulmonary atresia, tricuspid atresia and transposition of the...

11.23.2022 News

Community fundraising for Mattituck teacher awaiting heart, liver transplants

For more than two months, Shoreham native Rebecca Szymanski has been confined to the fifth floor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights. Just waiting. Ms. Szymanski, 40, is patiently...

10.12.2019 Health

Sharing stories of lives saved through organ donation at PBMC event

Lauren Clark of Lido Beach had just obtained her driver’s license. She was 18 and a high school senior. On the night of Dec. 30, 2008, her life and...

10.27.2016 Community

Retired Laurel postal worker ‘Smiling Ed’ receives heart transplant

Ed Schaefer considers last Friday to have been his one-month birthday. That might confuse anyone who knows the retired Laurel postmaster, who turned 64 in August. But to Mr....

08.27.2016 Columns

Parpan Column: Important victory for young people interested in organ donation

I remember the day I became a registered organ donor. I was 23 years old and a few months removed from leaving the State of New York for sunny...

07.28.2015 Community

Four decades later, a Greenport friendship could save a life

More than 40 years after they met inside Mrs. Coon’s Greenport Elementary School classroom, Beth Reed wants to give her childhood friend Joann Tamin a special gift: a healthy...

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2023 Educator of the Year: Rebecca Szymanski

Community fundraising for Mattituck teacher awaiting heart, liver transplants

Sharing stories of lives saved through organ donation at PBMC event

Retired Laurel postal worker ‘Smiling Ed’ receives heart transplant

Parpan Column: Important victory for young people interested in organ donation

Four decades later, a Greenport friendship could save a life

2023 Educator of the Year: Rebecca Szymanski

Community fundraising for Mattituck teacher awaiting heart, liver transplants￼

Sharing stories of lives saved through organ donation at PBMC event

Retired Laurel postal worker ‘Smiling Ed’ receives heart transplant

Parpan Column: Important victory for young people interested in organ donation

Four decades later, a Greenport friendship could save a life

Community fundraising for Mattituck teacher awaiting heart, liver transplants