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Local schools among top in nation: mag

Several North Shore schools placed near the top of Newsweek’s 20…
Lake Success-based lawyer wins $15 million verdict

East Williston attorney Robert Fallorino’s said the idea to prac…
Jay-Z headlines Coliseum presentations

With the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing, the owners of Madis…

Local schools among top in nation: mag

Pulse of the Peninsula: ‘Yes’ on budgets, ‘No’ on tax caps
On Tuesday, May 21, the community should come out in support of the school and library budgets, which are subject to a vote.
- posted: May 16
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- New York, Property Tax, Subsidy
Readers Write: Honor sacrifice on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is fast approaching, I hope it will not slip by with the many forgetting the importance of this day.
- posted: May 16
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- Memorial Day, United States, Vietnam
Readers Write: Activist can’t see Mineola’s forest for the trees
Reading your editorial last week one might not realize that Mineola has been named a tree city for the past 28 years. One might also get the o…
- posted: May 16
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- Tree, Tree City Usa, James Cagney
Readers Write: Unequal staffing at high schools not questioned
Two weeks ago, I submitted a letter to the editor that was published, questioning the Great Neck Public Schools proposed budget cuts affecting…
- posted: May 16
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- Great Neck New York, Great Neck, United States
Readers Write: Town building code enforcement biased
Congratulations to Jim McHugh for stating the facts, and having the courage, to express what is correct politically, and to dispose of what is…
- posted: May 16
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- North Hempstead New York, New Hyde Park New York, Long Island

Ed board preps for $102M budget vote
Roslyn residents will vote May 21 on a $102 million school budget for the 2013-14 school year, three uncontested trustee positions along the b…
- posted: May 16
Roslyn senior named Presidential Scholar
Roslyn High School senior Alain Sherman has been named as a 2013 Presidential Scholar, which honors students who have “demonstrated outstandin…
- posted: May 16
Light at the end of Viaduct
A reconstruction project to rebuild the Roslyn viaduct that has spanned nearly eight years, two phases and a name change is expected to be com…
- posted: May 16
School board prepares for budget vote
Residents of the Manhasset School District district will head to the polls to cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21, voting on a $89,296,198 school …
- Updated May 16
Inisfada hits housing market
The Manhasset mansion home of Roaring 20s-era industrialist Nicholas Brady and his wife Genevieve along Long Island’s “Gold Coast” has been pu…
- posted: May 16
Fate of historic graves mulled
The ownership and future of an historical cemetery of Great Neck’s once-prominent Allen family, now the site of a private homeowner’s backyard…
- posted: May 16

Nelson’s road leads to Westbury

Country Music legend Willie Nelson will appear at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Friday, Ju…
Local schools among top in …

Several North Shore schools placed near the top of Newsweek’s 2013 rankings of the top high …
Lake Success-based lawyer w…

East Williston attorney Robert Fallorino’s said the idea to practice law came to him at the …
Manhasset native wins LI Marathon

Manhasset native Kelly Gillen finished first among women Sunday at the Long Island Marathon.
Geller slams media in Alber…

A packed crowed of over 150 people came out to the VFW Hall in Alberston last Wednesday to h…
Jay-Z headlines Coliseum pr…

With the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing, the owners of Madison Square Garden and Brookly…
Class project ends as schoo…

Last spring, Roslyn High School student Melissa Goldstein was assigned a project in Scott Se…
King of Sweden gives Manhas…

Dr. Peter K. Gregersen, a scientist at North Shore-LIJ’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Res…
LIJ conducts mock dirty bom…

Some people were running, disoriented. Others lay collapsed on the ground in one of the park…
Maragos plans to hold onto his job

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who is running for re-election against a Democrati…