The nonprofit group Reclaim New York filed a lawsuit on June 7 in Nassau County Supreme Court against the Elmont School District for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Law …
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By Steve Smirti
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6/15/16
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Hundreds of people gathered at the Alva T. Stanforth Sports Complex near Elmont Library on Saturday to kick off the Elmont/Belmont Day Parade, marking the unofficial start of summer and the lead-up …
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By Steve Smirti
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6/8/16
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Less than three years after Nassau BOCES’s regional high school in Syosset announced that it would bring concentrated studies in science, technology, engineering and math to students in Nassau and Suffolk counties, the program announced in late April that it would cease operations due to lack of funding and enrollment.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/18/16
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Voters in Malverne responded very favorably to passing the school district’s proposed budget of $54.5 million, which brings a tax levy increase of .83 percent, the lowest the community has seen in two decades. They also easily voted in Proposition 2, which asked voters to approve $1.6 millin in expenditures of the capital reserve fund, which carries no additional cost for taxpayers, the district said.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/18/16
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In Malverne, three candidates are running for one available Board of Education seat. Michael Taylor, Jeanne D’Esposito and Jan Kasal have all been fervent supporters of the school district.
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5/12/16
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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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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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On May 17, School District 12 residents will choose among three candidates seeking a seat on the Malverne school board.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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4/26/16
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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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