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Elmont School District's tax levy will increase by more than $46 million this year, a jump of 2.7 percent over last year. The increase will help to pay for a 2.5 percent increase in the district's total budget relative to the 2009-2010 budget.
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Matthew Hampton
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5/5/10
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A charity started by four Long Island teenagers just made reading a whole lot easier for some of the children at Elmont's Gateway Youth Outreach program. Reading Reflections, a charity that collects gently used and new books, made a donation of more than 2,000 children's books at Dutch Broadway School on Friday, April 30.
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Matthew Hampton
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5/5/10
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On New Jersey’s Election Day, April 20, Gov. Chris Christie wanted voters to reject school budget proposals in any districts where the unionized teachers weren’t willing to freeze their salaries for a year.
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4/30/10
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Richard Lawrence of Merrick, a former Nassau County Family Court judge, longtime legal counsel to a state senator, and well-respected, well-loved community activist, died suddenly on April 21 of complications from a bone-marrow transplant. He was 66.
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Scott Brinton
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4/28/10
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Colorful tulips attract thousands each year to Hofstra University for one of Long Island’s enduring traditions, the Hofstra University Dutch Festival.
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Karen Bloom
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4/28/10
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The Valley Stream Central/Memorial PTSA will hold its annual Scholarship Dinner Dance and Fashion Show. on Thursday, May 6. It will take place at the Coral House, 70 Milburn Ave. in Baldwin, from 7 to 11 p.m.
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4/27/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller, 1970
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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As incidents of bullying and cyber-bullying gain notoriety nationwide, parents close to home start to look at their childrens’ schools to see how they stack up.
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Andrew Hackmack and Matt Hampton
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4/14/10
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“If I had to choose one thing that I wanted in my life,” said teary-eyed eighth grader Jackie Gropper, “that would be it.”
Gropper just had front row seats to an …
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Ariella Monti
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4/14/10
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