Elaine Phillips, mayor of the Village of Flower Hill, was nominated at the Nassau County Republican Convention on May 23 to run for Jack Martins’s vacated 7th District seat in the State …
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By Steve Smirti
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5/25/16
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The school budgets for the Franklin Square, Elmont, and Sewanhaka school district all passed on Tuesday. Franklin Square also had a $10 million capital projects proposition on the ballot that passed …
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5/18/16
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Three Flushing residents who were arrested for coercing women into performing sexual acts on customers in Franklin Square and West Hempstead have pled guilty for their involvement in a cross-county …
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5/16/16
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I grew up in Yaphank, a 14-square-mile hamlet in Suffolk County, virtually in the middle of Long Island. (The community to the north is, in fact, called Middle Island.) I remember . . .
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5/12/16
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The Sewanhaka Central High School District’s proposed $184.14 million budget is 2.98 percent, or $5.3 million, larger than the current spending plan. It will increase salaries by 3.7 percent, to …
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5/12/16
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In the Franklin Square Elementary School District, the proposed budget-to-budget increase for 2016-17 is 1.42 percent, or just over $520,000, to $37.2 million, and the tax levy increase is 1.7 …
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5/12/16
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Incumbent Leslyn Stewart is facing a challenge on the Elmont school board from Stewart Manor resident Michael Cantara. Stewart has been on the board for over a year and half, having been appointed …
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5/12/16
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Voters in New York’s 9th State Senate district did something last week that the governor and the State Legislature have failed to do this legislative session: They stood up for the fight against corruption and the push for ethics reform . . .
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4/28/16
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A half-dozen Nassau County environmental and civic activists, most from Merrick, came to Bethpage Community Park on April 21 –– the day before Earth Day –– to call on the state to accelerate efforts to clean up a massive chemical plume that has crept for more than seven decades from Bethpage toward South Oyster Bay.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/25/16
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Not only is Obamacare a poor health care plan from a policy perspective, but now many doctors and health care professionals believe that it is contributing to one of the worst epidemics facing this nation, our state and Long Island: opioid addiction
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4/21/16
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