This fall, if all goes according to plan, Island Park residents should start seeing workers in reflective vests on Austin Boulevard — the first step in a long-awaited traffic survey to determine …
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Alex Costello
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7/21/10
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Island Park residents worried about the sale and new owner of Abbey Manor had some of their concerns addressed at a special meeting of the Island Park Civic Association on June 22.
The …
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Alex Costello
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7/7/10
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As graduates in Oceanside and Island Park are getting ready to move on to bigger and better things, changes are coming to the local newspaper
as well.
The Oceanside/Island Park Herald has …
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Alex Costello
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6/30/10
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The Village of Rockville Centre may have inadvertently put itself in the dog house with its new law, banning Rottweilers and pit bulls from the village, that was passed during its June 8 meeting.
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Alex Costello
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6/23/10
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The Rockville Centre Board of Trustees recently passed a law banning residents from owning Rottweilers and pit bulls, giving local dog lovers two fewer breeds to adore.
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Alex Costello
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6/16/10
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Those who attended Rockville Centre's village board meeting on June 8 — or drove by Village Hall at around 8:15 p.m. — might have been startled to find union protesters marching around the block carrying coffins.
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Alex Costello
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6/16/10
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Union protesters have set up a new addition to the front of Rockville Centre’s Village Hall — a large, inflatable rat— to protest the construction of the AvalonBay apartment complex.
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Alex Costello
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6/9/10
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In the end, it was all decided by a single bite.
That was all that separated first-place face-stuffer “Munchin” Mike Longo, a Long Island native, and second-place Philadelphia native David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli in the 2010 National Cheese Steak Eating Championship at With Cheese Please in Rockville Centre on June 5.
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Alex Costello
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6/9/10
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When Rockville Centre Comptroller Michael Schussheim asked the Board of Trustees to approve his changes to the village's water rates for the upcoming year, everyone at the May 25 meeting seemed shocked. Some gasped. There was even applause.
Schussheim proposed lowering the rates by 5 percent. And the trustees agreed, although just barely, adopting Schussheim's recommendation in a 3-2 vote.
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Alex Costello
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6/3/10
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Rockville Centre trustees unanimously approved an amendment to the village’s social host law that lowers the age of responsibility from 18 to 16.
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Alex Costello
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6/2/10
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