Tensions ran high at the Oceanside Sanitation District’s meeting on Feb. 4, when Donna Casazza questioned the district’s promises to post minutes of its meetings on its website.
Casazza, who …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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2/10/16
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The special election to fill the State Senate’s 9th District seat, formerly held by Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is set for April 19, the same day as New York’s presidential primary.
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2/4/16
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Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), who for nearly a month remained silent on whether he would seek the vacant State Senate seat left open by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, formally …
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By JEFFREY BESSEN and ANTHONY RIFILATO
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2/3/16
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On Monday, Republican and Democratic delegates from around the great state of Iowa will hold district conventions, at which attendees in their respective precincts will mark the names of the presidential candidates they support. Votes will be counted in each precinct . . .
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1/28/16
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A jury in Suffolk County needed only two hours to convict a Huntington Station man of shooting Suffolk police officer Mark Collins, of North Bellmore, during a traffic stop last March, according to a representative of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
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By Scott Brinton and Julie Mansmann
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1/27/16
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New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore administered the oath of office to swear Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas into office on Monday. The ceremony, held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, featured several guest speakers. Singas’s family and friends attended the ceremony, with several family members in town from Greece.
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By Stephany Reyes
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1/26/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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An Oceanside man who was caught in a 2013 anti-prostitution sting pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Jan. 12.
Scott Manning, 47, was caught in then-District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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1/20/16
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The contract with Assistance Corp. was terminated, but the lawsuit against the Oceanside Sanitation District is still ongoing.
Since former Sanitation District Supervisor Michael Scarlata’s …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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1/6/16
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The Oceanside School District has canceled three high school trips to Europe in the wake of a Worldwide Travel Alert from the U.S. Department of State.
“It’s unfortunate that we’re in this …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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12/23/15
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