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Activist Mimi Pierre-Johnson, second from left, with fellow activists, from left, Carl Achille, Tamar Paoli and Victor Perez, beside Elmont Creek earlier this year.

Five months after local elected officials hosted a town hall meeting in Elmont to address the community’s cancer rates, community members are still waiting for action. At the same time, the state … more

By Timothy Denton | 9/26/18

Officials say no to federal gun funding

Local elected and school officials and parents joined the swelling chorus last week of those opposed to a proposal to use federal funds to arm classroom teachers, including in Franklin Square, Elmont … more

By Timothy Denton | 9/6/18

Hospital board Vice Chairman Tony Cancellieri at a rally on June 21 where he called on Blue Cross to relent in its negotiations with the hospital. The two parties later came to an agreement.

South Nassau, Blue Cross reach agreement

South Nassau Communities Hospital officials announced on June 29 that they had reached a contract agreement with the health insurance agency Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, ending an impasse in … more

By Peter Belfiore | 7/5/18

Seventy-five percent of legal service providers in New York had clients who were afraid to go to court because of ICE, and 29 percent had clients who refused to attend court.

Too scared to seek justice

As immigration lawyer Elise Damas headed into work on the morning of June 26, she had a quick meeting with a client. The man asked Damas, of the Village of Hempstead’s Central American Refugee … more

By Ronny Reyes | 7/5/18

New York State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, holding the check on the left, presented the $125,000 check to Elmont Memorial Library officials and teens on June 15.

Elmont Library receives $125,000 facility grant

As Elmont teens played video games after school in the Elmont Memorial Library’s Teen Annex room, New York State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages walked in to present a $125,000 grant to the library … more

By Timothy Denton | 6/29/18

State Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Glen Cove, reviewed a list of legislative proposals that address the termination of temporary protected status on a national scale.

Pushing back against TPS termination

Part six in an ongoing series. Read parts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7] here. When temporary protected status for Haitians was revoked last November, TPS recipients from other countries … more

By Nadya Nataly, Alyssa Seidman and Brian Stieglitz | 4/26/18

Laura Curran, Nassau County’s first female executive, thanked the county’s women for the progress they continue to make.

Assemblywoman honors local women of distinction

New York State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, Democrat of Valley Stream, hosted the “Women of Distinction Ceremony: Embracing Our Power,” at the Elmont Memorial High School on March 11. … more

By Ronny Reyes | 3/21/18

Daniel Ocasio, of Brooklyn, read a book he chose from Elmont’s first Little Free Library on Dutch Broadway.

A very small library comes to Elmont

Marcia Morgan, a speech pathologist from Elmont who teaches in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, was walking to work last fall with a friend when something caught her eye: a Little Free Library, along the sidewalk in front of a house. more

By Vanessa Parker | 9/7/17

Sen. John Brooks, at microphone, was joined by Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages on Sunday at the North Merrick Fire Department to call on a state study of safety on the Southern State Parkway.

Brooks calls for Southern State Parkway safety study in N. Merrick

Joined, in front of the North Merrick Fire Department, by several local firefighters, as well as Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, 8th District Senator John Brooks called on Sunday for the state to look into making the Southern State Parkway safer. more

By Erik Hawkins | 3/27/17

Elmont voluteer firefighter Jeffrey Dupoux was awarded a Liberty Medal on Feb. 12. From left are Elmont Fire Department Assistant Chief Ronald Conti; Senator Todd Kaminsky; Lieutenant Jeff Dupoux; Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages; and Assistant Chief Joseph Luckman.

Elmont firefighter Dupoux receives Liberty Award

While off duty on Feb. 1, Elmont volunteer firefighter Jeffrey Dupoux, along with Suffolk County police officer Tom Mutarelli, helped pull a woman on the Long Island Expressway to safety from her … more

By Vanessa Parker | 2/16/17

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