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Four Five Towns area residents are part of a group that is resubmitting an application for a charter school in the Lawrence School District. Atlantic Beach Estates resident Evelyn Gargano attended last year’s charter school public hearing.
Lawrence charter school plans revised
Despite last year’s vehement opposition to a proposed charter school in the Lawrence School District, which forced the applicants to withdraw the application in November, a similar group wants to open a newly named charter, the Lawrence Charter School. The group behind the effort submitted a letter of intent to the State Education Department ahead of the Feb. 10 deadline. more
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Cheers and jeers for our leaders
Our state and local leaders deserve our praise for keeping us safe during the blizzard a week and a half ago. more
Norma Gonsalves, at left following her 2013 re-election, has been the presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature since 2012.
State confirms Gonsalves missed campaign filings
The New York State Board of Elections acknowledged on Feb. 6 that Norma Gonsalves, the Nassau County Legislature’s presiding officer, repeatedly failed to make required campaign finance filings dating back to 2006. more
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Excuse me, Mr. Cuomo, but teachers are the good guys
Governor Cuomo certainly puts the “bully” in bully pulpit. In his State of the State address . . . more
Nassau OTB's process was flawed
The decision earlier this month by Nassau Regional Off Track Betting to establish a gaming facility in Westbury has been met with strong opposition . . . more
The Merrick School District administration has proposed eliminating the district’s Foreign Language in the Elementary School, or FLES, program. Above, Levy-Lakeside Elementary School students who won the National Foreign Languages Week essay and poster contest in 2012.
Merrick proposes cutting Spanish
Third- to sixth-grade students in the Merrick School District now receive Spanish instruction for 45 minutes every six school days. Soon, however, they may learn the meaning of “no mas.” more
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Hundreds of protesters lined Old County Road on Saturday, outside the site of a proposed video lottery terminal, to show their dismay.
Residents rally against proposed gaming facility
More than 1,000 people gathered for a community meeting in Westbury on Jan. 15 in a show of united opposition to a proposed video lottery terminal in a now-vacant Fortunoff at the Source Mall. more
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Former Gov. Mario Cuomo at a 2012 ceremony to rename the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, in honor of Cuomo’s predecessor, who appointed him New York’s secretary of state in 1975. He was joined by Carey’s son, Michael.
Bellmore-Merrick remembers Mario Cuomo
On Oct. 21, 1982, Democrat Mario Cuomo, then a candidate for governor of New York, was campaigning furiously on Long Island. Among his stops was WGBB radio, on Landsdowne Avenue in Merrick, where he debated Lewis Lehrman, his Republican-Conservative opponent and an investment banker. Richard Kessel, a native Merokean whom Cuomo later named executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, was there that day. He had lunch with Cuomo afterward. more
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We need an education commissioner who listens
The resignation of State Education Commissioner Dr. John King Jr. creates a unique opportunity. The Board of Regents, which will choose his successor . . . more
Infrastructure improvements (cheers!), PSEG rate increases (jeers!)
New York state has been presented with a unique opportunity. For once, rather than being faced with a multi-billion-dollar deficit . . . more
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