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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano delivered his 2015 State of the County address on Wednesday in East Meadow.

In his State of the County speech Wednesday night in East Meadow, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano painted a bright picture of Nassau’s present and future, touting his administration’s efforts to attract young people and families to the county, spur growth in the private sector, downsize government and hold down taxes. more

By Brian Racow | 3/13/15

The Western Bays provide many recreational opportunities such as kayaking, but scientists say that fertilizer runoff and partially treated sewage effluent threaten the health of the bays. Above, a wetland canal at Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick.

The Western Bays, an ecosystem suffering from all sides

Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm. more

By Stapha Charleme | 6/20/14

Abandon our coast? Heaven — and HUD — forbid

The clarion call has grown louder since Superstorm Sandy: We must beat a “managed” retreat from the coast, or face certain peril as global warming takes hold and sea levels rise. more

1/9/14

Protect the bays — fund the Bay Park pipe

Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility. more

6/6/13

It's long past time for action at the Bay Park plant

The effort to rebuild our communities after Hurricane Sandy’s devastation has not been without a sense of urgency, especially when it comes to reconstructing homes and critical infrastructure “stronger, smarter and safer.” more

1/31/13

The Westerners win it all

The West Hempstead Westerners Drill team won the New York State Motorized Drill held in Main Transit, N.Y. for the first time since 1951. A total of 20 trophies for a variety of events were taken home by the Westerners. more

8/29/12

Rosalie Norton, president of the West Hempstead Community Support Association, raised questions during the demographic study presentation on Aug. 14.

Study projects enrollment to decline further

A demographic study presented by Western Suffolk BOCES last week showed declines in enrollment in the West Hempstead school district. The study, school officials said, will help the district school … more

By Chris Engelhardt | 8/20/12

The West Hempstead Board of Education is forming a Space Utilization Committee to generate ideas on how the school district can use empty space at the Eagle Avenue School, which Nassau BOCES will be vacating in June 2013.

New West Hempstead committee in the works

The West Hempstead Board of Education is forming a Space Utilization Committee to garner public input on how the school district can use empty space at the Chestnut Street School — formerly home to … more

Chris Engelhardt | 5/8/12

National Wholesale Liquidators is expected to reopen its West Hempstead store in the former Shoppers Village building on Hempstead Turnpike in the coming weeks.

National Wholesale Liquidators returning to W.H.

All it took was the closure of one seedy hotel to spark business owners into action, or so it appears. Nearly six months ago the Town of Hempstead razed the Courtesy Hotel to make room for a … more

Lee Landor | 11/1/11

Sources close to Freeport Village Mayor Andrew Hardwick say he has not entirely killed plans to build a waste-to-energy incinerator in south Freeport, near the Merrick border. The incincerator would sit at the head of several tidal creeks leading into the nearby South Shore Estuary Reserve.

Toxic threat to nature's nursery?

Part one of a two-part series. Imagine building an incinerator next to a hospital nursery. That, critics say, is about what the Village of Freeport would be doing if it were to build a $550 million waste-to-energy incinerator alongside a wetland in south Freeport, near the Merrick border. Plans for the facility appear in doubt (see related story, "What's up with Freeport's incinerator plans?"). But if eventually approved, the project could have serious consequences for the local environment and human health. more

Allie Wilkinson | 5/13/10