To the Editor:
Legislator Howard Koppel’s recent letter (“Repealing guarantee was fair for everyone,” March 3-9) missed the point. The Island Park School District and all its residents …
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3/9/11
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To the Editor:
I have to respectfully disagree with Mr. Howard Kopel (“Legislators talk taxes,” Feb. 17-23). The extra burden Island Park residents may have paid for grievances in the past is …
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2/23/11
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Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 14th A.D.) co-sponsored Assembly Bill 3093, which allows villages that administer their own elections to use lever voting machines in those elections if they so choose.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/23/11
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Island Park residents had an opportunity to question their Nassau County representatives about taxes and decisions they have made at a Civic Association meeting on Feb. 8.
Legislators Denise …
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by Alex Costello
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2/16/11
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The Nassau County Legislature approved more than $3 million in contracts on Jan. 10 for new equipment and upgrades at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, in an effort to end months of illegal sewage discharge into Reynolds Channel, which many residents and local officials have called a serious environmental health hazard.
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By Chris Engelhardt
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1/26/11
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When firefighters wash down their trucks after making on a run, they may have to pay a fee on that water. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, has proposed a water use fee in the county’s 2011 budget. At a news conference in front of the North Merrick firehouse on Friday, Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg said the fee is really a tax.
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Deirdre Krasula
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10/15/10
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At a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday morning, the Town of Hempstead passed legislation that regulates where cell antennas and other wireless telecommunications equipment may be placed within the township.
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David Weingrad
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9/21/10
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Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg slammed the website Ultrinsic Motivator, Inc. during a Sept. 8 news conference for offering college students the chance "to wager" on their own grades.
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David Weingrad
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9/8/10
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Updated: Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1:57 p.m. Protesters from various parts of Nassau County rallied outside Town of Hempstead Hall on Tuesday morning before a town meeting, calling for a moratorium on the installation of cell-phone antennas and towers around Bellmore, Merrick and Wantagh.
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David Weingrad
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8/3/10
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This fall, if all goes according to plan, Island Park residents should start seeing workers in reflective vests on Austin Boulevard — the first step in a long-awaited traffic survey to determine …
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Alex Costello
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7/21/10
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