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It's election night across the country has hundreds of thousands of voters take to the polls to choose who will represent them on the local, state and national level beginning next year. more
With gloves on their hands, volunteers collected hundreds of medicine bottles from residents who had come to dispose of unused prescription medications at the third annual Drug Take-back Day at Merrick Avenue Middle School on May 21. more
“This time, it’s Wantagh’s turn,” Long Island Rail Road President Patrick Nowakowski said last week, as construction was about to get under way on the Wantagh train station. Officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony last Thursday at the former Triangle Park to signal the beginning of a project that has been years in the making. more
The concept of the Family Place Library is to get away from the “shhh” library mentality and create an environment where a little bit of noise is OK. more
The Seaford, Wantagh and Levittown school districts will get increases in state aid next year, according to figures released last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo following his State of the State address. more
In its final report, issued Dec. 10, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Common Core Task Force called on the state to place a four-year moratorium on the use of students’ state test scores to evaluate … more
When Dorothy Browe started volunteering for the Ronald McDonald House nearly three decades ago, she never knew just how much a part of her life it would become. more
Add more items to the list of ways the Seaford community has supported high school senior Nico Fiorello since a swimming accident in May. more
Decries teacher evaluation system To the Editor: I question New York state’s value-added modeling teacher evaluation system, which has led to one highly respected Great Neck teacher, Sheri … more
On Oct. 21, 1982, Democrat Mario Cuomo, then a candidate for governor of New York, was campaigning furiously on Long Island. Among his stops was WGBB radio, on Landsdowne Avenue in Merrick, where he debated Lewis Lehrman, his Republican-Conservative opponent and an investment banker. Richard Kessel, a native Merokean whom Cuomo later named executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, was there that day. He had lunch with Cuomo afterward. more
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