Lynbrook residents approved their school district's $76.19 million budget on Tuesday by a comfortable margin – 901 to 431 – and elected Heather Hanson to the Board of Education as she defeated incumbent William Kayen, 719 to 521. William Belmont, who ran unopposed, was re-elected to his third term on the board and garnered 706 votes. more

A Long Beach man who struck a 15-year-old Long Beach High School student on Labor Day and dragged her underneath his Jeep for an entire block was sentenced to eight years in prison on May 16. … more

A new media promotional campaign called We Are Baldwin is capturing hearts, minds, faces and even entire families throughout the hamlet. more

Famed New York Jet Curtis Martin will appear at John. F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore for a fundraiser to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims on Monday, May 20, student government officials said. more

Three stalwarts of the community were selected as honorees for this year’s Mayor’s Golf Outing — Peter Ledwith, village attorney, Bill Gaylor, past president of the Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce … more

Dr. Stanley J. Berke, one of the founding partners of OCLI in Lynbrook, has opened a new eye care practice in Westbury. Berke held a “meet and greet” on … more

Two seats on the North Bellmore School District’ Board of Education are on the line in the May 21 election. In one race, incumbent JoAnn DeLauter faces challenger Frank LaMagra. North Bellmorites will have three options to chose from for the second seat: incumbent Rosemarie Corless, Peter Mayo or Greg Bashaw. The fate of the five candidates will be at the polls at Newbridge Road Elementary School. more

A longtime Bellmorite and two veteran trustees will be on this year’s ballot in the Bellmore School District Board of Education election. more

In Merrick Norman J. Levy-Lakeside Elementary School, Babylon Road, Merrick, one block south of Merrick Road, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 21. In North Merrick Harold D. Fayette Elementary … more

John Orlandini, a former member of Rescue Ink — the non-profit animal rescue group that operated the Long Beach Animal Shelter — was arrested on Wednesday and charged with third-degree grand … more