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Tough times call for tough measures in Nassau County

Last week, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano sent a memo to county department heads, ordering them to compile layoff lists. This would be the third in a series of layoffs of county employees ordered by Mangano in one year. more

8/2/12

Nassau County may severely cut funding for youth services. The Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence would lose about $400,000. Above, Peter Levy, president of the Coalition of Nassau County Youth Services Agencies, spoke at a July 6 rally.

Fearing funding cuts at the Five Towns Community Center

Cuts in funding for youth services that are provided by many Nassau County-based, private youth, mental-health and addiction-treatment agencies, including the Five Towns Community Center, would have a drastic impact on the Lawrence-based agency’s infrastructure and the community it serves, Executive Director Bertha Pruitt says. more

By Ann Friedman | 7/12/12

Joe Smith, executive director of Long Beach Reach Inc., addressed the hundreds of people in front of Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Legislative and Executive Building in Mineola.

Youth-service agencies face county cuts

Hundreds of people gathered at Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Legislative and Executive Building in Mineola on July 6, rallying for the reinstatement of contracts and funds that the county cut for youth programs and substance-abuse treatment agencies. more

By Brian Croce | 7/11/12

At the security forum in Lawrence, Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Dale made several key points about fighting crime and terrorism.

What if it wasn’t …nothing?

An unidentified man dressed differently from the bar mitzvah attendees at a synagogue wants access to the building. Outside the temple, a person in a parked car appears to be more of a potential threat than a law enforcement agent. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/20/12

Stop using the needy as pawns

Politics ain’t beanbag, the old saying goes. To get what they want, politicians make quid pro quo agreements and try to force deals all the time, all in the name of accomplishing what they think is best for their constituency. more

6/14/12

Linda Leonard, executive director of the Long Island Crisis Center in Bellmore, said she worries that her agency could lose its 24-hour, seven-day-a-week suicide-prevention hotline if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano eliminates funding for the private, nonprofit agency.

Nassau’s social-service network in crisis

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week. more

By Scott Brinton | 6/9/12

At the opening of the new artificial-turf fields at Grant Park, Hewlett-Woodmere and Lynbrook Little Leaguers got set to play. Standing, from left, were league President Mike Solow, County Executive Ed Mangano, league Vice President Dave Smollett and Hewlett-Woodmere Little League President Rich Kahn.

New fields for Grant Park in Hewlett

Players and officials from the Hewlett-Woodmere and Lynbrook Little Leagues had a bit more giddy-up in their steps last Saturday, the opening day for three new synthetic-turf fields at Nassau County’s Grant Park in Hewlett. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/7/12

Sewer deal could be boon for county

Nassau County’s aging sewage treatment plants –– the Bay Park plant in East Rockaway, the Cedar Creek plant in Wantagh and the Glen Cove plant –– have for years been a proverbial yoke around the county’s neck. more

5/17/12

Sewer deal could be boon — or not — for the county

Nassau County’s aging sewage treatment plants –– the Bay Park plant in East Rockaway, the Cedar Creek plant in Wantagh and the Glen Cove plant –– have for years been a proverbial yoke around the county’s neck. more

5/14/12

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano recently announced his intent to pursue a public-private partnership to operate and maintain the county’s three sewage treatment plants.

County weighs leasing the sewer system

Facing a $3 billion debt, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano recently announced his intent to pursue a public-private partnership to operate and maintain the county’s three sewage treatment plants. At a news conference in Mineola on Thursday, Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, said the transaction would earn the county $750 million, alleviating 25 percent of Nassau’s debt –– the highest of any county in New York. more

By David Weingrad | 5/5/12