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Villages of Lynbrook, East Rockaway awaiting AIM funding

Villages and towns across Nassau County still have not received roughly $8 million in Aid and Incentives to Municipalities funds they were due to be paid by the state in September. The villages of Lynbrook and East Rockaway are owed more than $430,000. more

By Nadya Nataly | 11/14/19

Residents and officials are frustrated by New York American Water’s recent rate hikes, the highest of which have hit the Lynbrook service area.

New York American Water rate hikes are highest in Lynbrook

Residents in the Lynbrook, Merrick and North Shore water districts found a letter from New York American Water in their mailboxes during the last week of October, and it wasn’t a water bill. It was a rate increase notice, signed off on by the New York Public Service Commission. more

By Mike Conn and Mike Smollins | 11/7/19

Two months after a rally against National Grid’s gas moratorium in Lynbrook, hosted by Mayor Alan Beach and the village board, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the utility to restore service to more than 1,100 customers, but the moratorium has continued.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo takes aim at National Grid gas moratorium after Lynbrook rally

Amid a gas moratorium imposed by National Grid, the utility faces millions of dollars in fines unless it provides natural gas to more than 1,100 customers who were denied service re-connections after the company recently sought approval for a controversial gas pipeline. more

By Mike Smollins | 10/17/19

Letters to the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Editor

The latest letters to the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Editor focus on water rate hikes and the Legislative District 6 race. more

10/10/19

A rendering of the Bay Park Conveyance Project, which will send treated effluent from the Bay Park Water Reclamation Facility to an ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, in Wantagh, via a century-old aqueduct beneath Sunrise Highway.

County Legislature OKs $408 million for plan to re-route treated sewage from Bay Park to Wantagh

A long-awaited project to remove nitrogen from the Western Bays gained steam on Sept. 9, when the Nassau County Legislature unanimously voted to borrow $408 million to build a system to divert treated sewage from Bay Park to Wantagh, and from there into the Atlantic Ocean. more

By Mike Smollins | 9/19/19

Nassau County Republicans decried new law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

Reacting to Green Light Bill

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week signed into law the Green Light Bill allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain New York state driver’s licenses. The State Assembly and Senate approved the measure in June. New York joins 12 other states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico in passing such legislation. more

By Nadya Nataly | 7/5/19

Lynbrook resident Susan Brockmann, above with Nassau County Legislator C. William Gaylor, stood outside the County Legislative Building in Mineola last May, wearing 500 plastic bags. She did so in protest of their use.

Lynbrook, East Rockaway residents react positively to New York's plastic bag ban

Under an agreement reached as part of the state budget passed by lawmakers over the weekend, plastic bags will be banned in all New York retail stores starting next March, which has left many locals pleased. more

By Anthony O'Reilly and Melissa Koenig | 4/4/19

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared at a Long Island Association-sponsored rally at SUNY Old Westbury on Thursday to call for a permanent property tax levy cap and reduced state taxes for the middle class.

Cuomo touts tax measures at SUNY Old Westbury rally

With a host of Long Island Democratic politicos and two busloads of older adults from Rockville Centre’s Sandel Senior Center seated before him, Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared at SUNY Old Westbury on … more

By Scott Brinton | 3/1/19

Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach, left, and East Rockaway Mayor Bruno Romano sent letters to state legislators last month, asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal, which sought to cut the Aid and Incentives to Municipalities program.

Villages get AIM funding back

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Feb. 15 that he would use $60 million in revenue from sales taxes generated in out-of-state internet marketplaces to continue to fund the state’s Aid and Incentives to Municipalities program. The program provides funds for towns and villages, including East Rockaway and Lynbrook, to use in their general funds. more

By Nadya Nataly and Melissa Koenig | 2/28/19

Radical leftists on the rampage!

With all the political distractions constantly bombarding us, it’s important to remember that our national economy continues to grow at a strong pace, creating new jobs and the lowest unemployment in years. But some politicians in Washington and Albany . . . more

2/22/19

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