Here comes
Santa Claus
Valley Stream’s Winterfest celebration is scheduled for Dec. 2 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The event starts with children writing letters to Santa at the Henry Waldinger …
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11/30/16
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In the wake of several traffic incidents — two involving pedestrians hit by cars in the past few months — the mayor of Valley Stream has again appealed to Nassau County officials for assistance with problem intersections along county roads in the village.
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By Nick Ciccone
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11/30/16
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Effective immediately, the Lynbrook Board of Trustees adopted a law to ban smoking at all parks throughout the village.
The Nov. 21 hearing was open to the public, but no one came to speak out …
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By Mike Smollins
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11/30/16
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The Village of Lynbrook is in the early stages of a road improvement project that would cost roughly $3.5 million, with work to upgrade the streets and curbs tentatively scheduled for the spring of …
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By Mike Smollins
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11/23/16
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The Hempstead Town Board named Lynbrook Mayor William Hendrick among six other appointees to its Industrial Development Agency on Tuesday morning, after six members of the previous board resigned a …
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By Nick Ciccone
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11/16/16
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By Mike Smollins
msmollins@liherald.com
Two new mini-pitches were unveiled at Barrett Park on Oct. 13, to the delight of many young Valley Stream soccer players.
“It’s amazing,” said …
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By Mike Smollins
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11/2/16
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At the Island Park Business and Residential Chamber meeting on Oct. 13 Island Park Mayor Michael McGinty announced the status of four ongoing Hurricane Sandy recovery projects. The projects ranged …
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By Peter Belfiore
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10/26/16
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Sept. 28 approved a $1.33 million project to repave parking lots at the Gibson, Little Neck and Cedarhurst Long Island Railroad stations.
On the north …
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By Mike Smollins
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10/12/16
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Despite a multi-generational history of family members who were officers in the New York City Police Department — and the tragic shooting of his father, Detective Steven McDonald, in Central Park in 1986, which left him a quadriplegic — Conor McDonald wasn’t truly certain that he wanted to be a police officer until 2007.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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10/12/16
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Being the Mayor of Island Park is hard work. Pleasing a whole community is a fulltime job. But Mayor Michael McGinty put his all into a recent assignment, reading to Island Park children at the …
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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9/28/16
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