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Nearby things to do this week in Oceanside, Island Park

Freeport-based pet rescue organization Bobbi and the Strays visits Petco in Oceanside on Saturday, Jan. 26 from noon to 3 p.m. more

1/23/19

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, center, recently created a task force to study the potential impacts legal marijuana might have on the county.

Laura Curran creates legal marijuana task force

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran on Jan. 10 announced the formation of a task force to study the impact legal recreational marijuana might have on the county. Nassau County Police Commissioner … more

By Anthony O'Reilly | 1/16/19

Ruff House Rescue is urging customers to adopt pets instead of buying them this holiday season and to remember that puppies are a commitment, not just a cute present.

Ruff House Rescue in Oceanside hosts holiday fundraising events

“Adopt, don’t buy” — This is the message that Ruff House Rescue, the Oceanside-based pet rescue organization, is sending to Long Islanders who want a new, furry friend in the family this holiday season and beyond. more

By Briana Bonfiglio | 12/6/18

Villages deserve greater share of state sales taxes

Tens of millions of dollars in state sales taxes are generated in Nassau County’s 64 villages each year. The state keeps part of the money, and sends part of it . . . more

7/12/18

Stop politicizing the fight against MS-13

Bodies started turning up in South Shore parks and woodlands in the past year and a half: teenagers hacked to death with machetes or shot in the face by members of the ruthless El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. more

6/14/18

Hempstead Town Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin, third from left, and Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana, third from right, visited the Evergreen Charter School in Hempstead to announce an upcoming series of bilingual property-tax reduction seminars. They were joined by Latino community leaders, including, from left, Gil Bernandino, executive director of Circulo De La Hispanidad and the Evergreen Charter School; Margarita Grasing, executive director of the Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre; the Rev. Daniel DeJesus, of the Arc of Salvation Church of Oceanside; and Marguerite Keller, director of the Hispanic Brotherhood.

Town plans to launch bilingual property-tax reduction seminars

Hempstead Town Receiver of Taxes Donald Clavin Jr. and Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana are launching a series of town-sponsored bilingual tax-reduction seminars for Spanish-speaking homeowners. Gil … more

By Nadya Nataly | 5/24/18

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

Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy, center, was joined by Lynbrook Deputy Mayor Hilary Becker, far left, Plandome Manor Mayor Barbara Donno, Town of Hemstead Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney and Freeport Trustee Carmen Piñeyro on a tour of the New Bedford Hurricane Protection Barrier in Masschusetts on Monday.

Freeport officials, hoping to construct floodgates here, tour Massachusetts project

All that was missing was a “Welcome to Freeport” sign, and the city of New Bedford, Mass., could have easily been mistaken for the village. Both communities are located on relatively small bays … more

By Nadya Nataly | 4/26/18

Mariann Mendoza, a volunteer receptionist and paralegal at the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead, with a stack of TPS-related case files looming behind her.

TPS holders cast into the shadows?

Part one of an ongoing series. Read parts [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] here. Curtailing Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has become a flashpoint in national politics since … more

By Nadya Nataly and Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 3/9/18

A powerful nor'easter rolled across Long Island on Friday.

Nor'easter brings rain, high winds, flooding to Nassau County

All of the South and North Shores were under a flood warning and high-wind watch as a powerful nor’easter churned across Long Island Friday morning. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/2/18

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