The Village of Rockville Centre’s 2010 roadway project to repair heavily damaged roads in the village is already under way.
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5/19/10
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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Last week, freshman Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano laid it on the line for county residents. He told us that the county is facing a $286 million deficit, the largest in its history.
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Al D'Amato
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5/6/10
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After some seven years of studies, community meetings, press conferences and tens of millions of dollars spent on planning and consultants, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum remains an aging concrete behemoth surrounded by 77 acres of cracking asphalt. It is a glaring eyesore in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties.
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5/6/10
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Delays at local area airports didn’t stop 150 girls from traveling to countries around the globe late last month — without ever leaving Rockville Centre. A Girl Scout Gold Award Project called “International Day - Where East Meets West” was presented by village resident Caitlin Morahan, a Holy Trinity High School senior.
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3/24/10
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Highlights include a performance of Godspell in Bellmore, a musical revue of the life and times of Desi Arnaz at Hofstra, and still more circus antics with the National Circus Project at Long Island Children's Museum.
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3/24/10
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While the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performs under its Big Top at Nassau Coliseum, the National Circus Project brings its "little top" to Hofstra University.
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3/17/10
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As part of an ongoing philanthropy project, South Side High School senior Chris Boss, a Covert Elementary School alumnus, invited all students at his former school to participate in a tournament-style dodgeball event on Feb. 4 in the Covert gym.
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2/17/10
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There are big-picture issues that the town of Hempsteand and Nassau County will have to tackle together. Foremost among them is the Lighthouse project, a sweeping proposal to transform 150 acres surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale from the barren asphalt of a parking lot to a residential and commercial zone.
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1/7/10
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Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy recently announced a $500,000 grant for the Village of Rockville Centre’s annual road projects.
The money, part of the departments of Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill, will be used by the village for its 2010 Roadway Project. McCarthy, who represents New York’s Fourth Congressional District, helped secure the funds.
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Alex Costello
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1/6/10
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