A North Bellmore Fire Department truck ignited inside its firehouse on March 4, but firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, officials said.
One of the five fire trucks at Engine and Rescue …
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/13/15
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Dave Denenberg, the former Nassau County legislator from Merrick who resigned on Jan. 21, the same day he pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with swindling a law client of $2.3 million, co-founded a business two weeks later to advise clients about how to reduce their property taxes. It is called Cobra Consulting Group, LLC.
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By Brian Racow
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3/13/15
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The acclaimed touring company shares the vision of its founder Paul Taylor in two dynamic performances.
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2/11/15
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On Oct. 21, 1982, Democrat Mario Cuomo, then a candidate for governor of New York, was campaigning furiously on Long Island. Among his stops was WGBB radio, on Landsdowne Avenue in Merrick, where he debated Lewis Lehrman, his Republican-Conservative opponent and an investment banker.
Richard Kessel, a native Merokean whom Cuomo later named executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, was there that day. He had lunch with Cuomo afterward.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/7/15
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The classic holiday tale sounds quite like operetta in a vibrant adaptation of the treasured story.
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12/12/14
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Exhibits and more...
China Then and NowThis exhibition brings together exemplary Chinese works of art from the classical, early modern and contemporary periods. It explores three millennia of one …
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11/26/14
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The Calhoun High School On Tour Company, the school’s magnet drama program that takes in students from Merrick and Bellmore, will hold its second annual Halloween Family Funfest on Nov. 1 at the school.
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10/17/14
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Exhibits and more...
Lessons of the Holocaust to Teach ToleranceA contextualized history that explains the 1920s’ increase of intolerance, reduction of human rights, and lack of intervention …
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9/24/14
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The engineering firm that conducted a study of the area’s water system, analyzing the pros and cons of a municipal authority buying it from current operator New York American Water Company, Inc., went by one yardstick: ...
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By Brian Racow
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9/3/14
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In 2010, people in Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and Seaford paid nearly five times more for tap water than people in East Meadow, Levittown, Lido Beach and Uniondale, according to an engineering firm working for the Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County. The first four communities got their water from the company Long Island American Water. The second four got theirs from the Town of Hempstead ...
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By Brian Racow
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8/27/14
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