Janelle Clausen

Janelle Clausen is a reporter with Blank Slate Media covering the Great Neck peninsula and Town of North Hempstead. She previously freelanced for the Amityville Record, Massapequa Post and the Babylon Beacon. When not reporting, the south shore native can usually be found buried in a book, playing video games or talking Star Wars.

Janelle Clausen

Janelle Clausen is a reporter with Blank Slate Media covering the Great Neck peninsula and Town of North Hempstead. She previously freelanced for the Amityville Record, Massapequa Post and the Babylon Beacon. When not reporting, the south shore native can usually be found buried in a book, playing video games or talking Star Wars.
Follow:
1237 Articles

Great Neck Village approves Vigilant ambulance contract

The Great Neck Village Board of Trustees renewed an ambulance contract with Vigilant Fire and Ambulance Company on Tuesday night, ending

2 Min Read

Great Neck mobilizing for school elections

Marlene Sotelo-Dynega said she never voted for anything aside from presidential elections. But as a parent of a toddler, who

6 Min Read

Great Neck library board terminates director Kathy Giotsas

The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees voted to authorize the April 28 termination of Executive Library Director Kathy Giotsas

2 Min Read

Great Neck BOE candidate tackles ‘rumor mill’

When Nikolas Kron appeared at last week's "Meet the Candidates" event, he described himself as a pro-public school professional consultant and

4 Min Read

Calling for unity, Ilya Aronovich drops out of Great Neck school board race

The last public forum with the Great Neck Board of Education candidates ended with a stirring push for unity and

3 Min Read

Great Neck Library seeks applicants for four seats

The Great Neck Library is looking for people to fill two nominating committee seats and compete for two board of

4 Min Read

Sassouni and Shi elected to Great Neck Board of Education

Jeffrey Shi and Rebecca Sassouni won seats on the Great Neck Public Schools' Board of Education on Tuesday, ending what

5 Min Read

Great Neck approves school bond and budget

Great Neck residents approved a $223.3 million school budget and a $68.3 million bond on Tuesday, as a surge of

5 Min Read

Community activist Rebecca Gilliar challenges a mayor she once backed

Community activist Rebecca Gilliar, who helped organize an under-the-radar write-in campaign to unseat then Village of Great Neck Mayor Ralph

2 Min Read

Olivia Lundelius, rocking with computer science

Olivia Lundelius, a senior at Great Neck South High School, helped pioneer classes in Java, Python and Android app making

4 Min Read

Kings Point and Great Neck approve fire contracts with Alert

The Villages of Kings Point and Great Neck voted to approve their fire contracts with Alert Engine, Hook and Ladder

2 Min Read

The Jacket from Dachau: a showcase of Holocaust resilience

Stepping inside the Kupferberg Holocaust Center, a long corridor of documents, maps and photos detail the life of Benzion Persecki

7 Min Read

Robert McIntyre, former Great Neck mayor, dies at 85

Robert McIntyre, Village of Great Neck mayor from 1977 to 1981, died on April 29 of heart failure in Haslett,

3 Min Read

Great Neck Library budget vote on May 16

Residenets will be voting on a $9.76 million library budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year on May 16. The budget

3 Min Read

The Island Today: Serving up smiles on the Gold Coast

The Gold Coast Arts Center and Gold Coast International Film Festival hosted French chef Jacques Pépin at a film and

3 Min Read