After two contentious meetings with Riverside parents in as many weeks, the Board of Education has moved to suspend its Class Balancing policy for the rest of the school year. Riverside parents … more

Work continues to repair the damaged field at Watson Elementary School, but it will likely remain unusable until the 2017-18 school year. In April, parents complained to the district … more

Alex B. Lipton, son of Karen and Wayne Lipton, graduated from New York University Law School on May 19, earning his J.D. A 2007 graduate of South Side High School, he earned his B.A. from Harvard … more

At the first public meeting to discuss the Rebuild by Design project for Mill River, government officials revealed their new plans for the waterway and Hempstead Lake State Park, which keep with the goals and theme of the original project. The meeting on May 24 was the first gathering of the project’s Citizen Advisory Committee, which will help to plan and implement the project. All of the CAC members are residents from towns surrounding Mill River, and they all have a stake in the project and unique expertise: the group is made up of community organizers, marine biologists, environmental engineers, college students and... more

Parents from Riverside Elementary School packed a Board of Education meeting last week to speak out against what they felt was unfair treatment of their school by the board and the district … more

EAT.SHOP.ROCK is returning to the village on June 4, and it’s going to be bigger than ever. This will be the third year of the Chamber of Commerce’s street fair, which exclusively … more

Dr. Herbert D. Rosenbaum, a longtime Rockville Centre resident who came to America after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1937, died in his home on May 18, of congestive heart failure. He was 95. Rosenbaum … more

Catholic high school principals have been warned about a new website where students are sharing naked pictures of female students “like baseball cards.” Mary McMahon, director of the … more

Months after his conviction, and days before his sentencing, the Village of Rockville Centre removed Dean Skelos’s name from the park that bore it for years. Last week, village workers quietly … more

At his sentencing hearing on May 12, Adam Skelos acknowledged what many in Rockville Centre have been saying since he and his father, Dean, were convicted of corruption in December: He ruined his … more