Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy filed a $2.5 million notice of claim on June 1 against the Town of Hempstead and Nassau County to win back what he calls a “fair share” of state sales-tax reimbursements for the village, but he has not yet received a response and is mulling legal action.
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By Melissa Koenig, Nadya Nataly and Anthony O'Reilly
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7/5/18
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The Syosset-based nonprofit MercyFirst is housing 10 migrant children who were separated from their families as part of the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. On Monday, U.S. …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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6/28/18
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Freeport generates roughly $15.8 million a year in state sales taxes. The state collects the money, and then sends back roughly $6.2 million to Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead.The share of …
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By Nadya Nataly
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6/21/18
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Bodies started turning up in South Shore parks and woodlands in the past year and a half: teenagers hacked to death with machetes or shot in the face by members of the ruthless El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
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6/14/18
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Hundreds of canoers, kayakers, paddle boarders and rafters are set to hit the water Saturday in East Rockaway for the inaugural South Shore Blueway Festival at Hewlett Point Park.
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By Mike Smollins
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6/14/18
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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has chosen a new assessor to run the beleaguered department that county officials have long said accounts for the majority of Nassau’s financial problems.
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By Eden Laikin
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6/6/18
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At the east end of Frederick Avenue in Roosevelt, on a leafy residential block with a Baptist church, Nassau County police set up a command post Wednesday afternoon. In the dense woodland to the …
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By Scott Brinton
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5/30/18
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Redevelopment plans for the 77 acres of property surrounding the Nassau Coliseum have been bouncing between developers and lawmakers for the past decade. The most recent interested party, Blumenfeld …
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By Brian Stieglitz
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5/24/18
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The promise inscribed on the Statue of Liberty — “send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me” — is the promise of hope that America makes . . .
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5/17/18
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If you’re a student of the Revolutionary War, you know that some of the greatest military battles took place on Long Island. There haven’t been any such conflicts here since that time, but . . .
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5/3/18
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