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Dozens of concerned homeowners, parents, teachers and residents from East Rockaway, Lynbrook and Hewlett crowded Monday night’s village board meeting in East Rockaway to address a troubling situation: groups of teenagers — sometimes as many as 50, by some accounts — who are drinking and vandalizing homes near Waverly Avenue and Durland Road in the southwestern corner of the village. more
Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York. more
Test scores seemed to have fallen throughout New York and across Long Island after the State Education Department raised the bar at all grade levels in an effort to better prepare students for higher education. more
After a one-year hiatus due to financial reasons, the Empire State Games made a triumphant return this summer with more than 4,500 athletes competing in the 32nd edition, held July 21-25 at various sites throughout Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Amherst. more
Cornell University has chosen East Rockaway in Nassau County to train students in doing a village-wide street tree inventory. On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday August 8, five teams, headed by Professor Nina Bassuk of the Cornell University Urban Horticulture Institute, will be collecting data on village street trees. more
Kaitlin LaBarca of Lynbrook can describe herself as one of the few and the proud — and the only girl from her Lynbrook High School class to enter the military — since she joined the Marines last November. more
With new challenges looming around the corner, both Vicki Alspector and Marie Girace are setting sail to conquer new worlds. But not before taking some time to reflect on a past chapter of their lives as a trustee and president of the East Rockaway Board of Education, which they spent many years representating the East Rockaway school district. . more
A warm welcome awaited newly-elected East Rockaway Board of Education members Patti Nicoletti and Kristin Ochtera at the board’s reorganization meeting on Tuesday night at East Rockaway High School. The board also wasted no time diving into a new agenda of issues for the 2010-2011 school year to which the new board members joined the ranks. more
Sometimes, words are not enough. Even though words are my business, there are so many others who said it better about the life and passing of their -- and my -- beloved Mayor Ed Sieban. So instead, I put together a montage of photos and short videos of the mayor "in action." I hope you like it. more
On June 28, three local students were honored by the ELLM Association of Girl Scouts when they received their Gold Award. Amanda Eckert, Carrie Feltkamp and Sarah Kalny, all Lynbrook residents, completed the rigorous requirements to earn the highest honor in Girl Scouts. more
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