A major switch upgrade project near the Valley Stream train station will affect Long Island Rail Road service across the south shore this coming weekend. more

When Gina Capone of Valley Stream was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2000, she began scouring the Internet to find someone with diabetes whom she could talk with; someone who knew what she was going through. Capone’s aunt was the only person she knew with diabetes, and her aunt’s case was filled with complications. more

The 2010 City of the Brave calendar is out, featuring firefighters from The New York City Fire Department. “Mr. April” is none other than East Rockaway’s Brian Dessart, a firefighter for both NYC and the East Rockaway Fire Department, and former Herald Communications Director. more

When Lynbrook resident Sarah Thomas was just a teenager, she knew what her calling was in life. At 15, Thomas said she took a voiceover class at the Learning Annex — a continuing education school in Manhattan — and realized then that she wanted to be an actress. Her road to success, however, has been a tortuous one. more

Students at Lynbrook’s West End School experienced the democratic process first-hand when they participated in Student Council elections. more

The race for Nassau County district attorney pits one-term Democratic incumbent Kathleen Rice, a former federal prosecutor and Brooklyn assistant district attorney, against Republican Joy Watson, a former assistant Nassau County district attorney who is now a law clerk for a county Supreme Court justice. more

Essential services and property taxes are often in the forefront of the issues in the Town of Hempstead, but in this year’s race for supervisor, the rhetoric has shifted toward the proposed … more

In what is becoming an increasingly bitter, partisan battle, Nassau County Legislator Ed Mangano, a Republican, is challenging incumbent Democrat Thomas Suozzi for the county executive’s seat. The race appears to boil down to three key issues: property taxes, a recently imposed 2.5 percent energy tax and the county’s troubled property-tax assessment system. Mangano is challenging Suozzi’s handling of all three issues, while Suozzi fires back that the county has consistently balanced its budget while improving its bond rating, which reduces the interest the county must pay when it bonds money for any number of projects. more

To attract businesses to open shop in Lynbrook, the village board enacted an 18-month moratorium of its parking fund law at its Oct. 5 meeting. The law requires commercial building owners to pay $10,000 for each parking space they are short of the minimum number of spaces the zoning code requires. more

Two vacant storefronts at 45 and 48 Atlantic Ave. have long been an eyesore on the busiest stretch of the village’s downtown district, and the village board has taken action to change that. more