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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, at the wheel of the "Black Beast," which was once a terror on the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, announced on Friday that the county is planning to construct a hiking and biking trail along the old parkway. He was joined here by, from left, Denis Byrne, of Long Island Greenways and Healthy Trails; Michael Vitti, of Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists; Brian Schneider, a hydrogeologist with the county Department of Public Works; Howard Kroplick, of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and the Beast's owner; Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, DPW commissioner; and Lisa and Richard Schary, North Bellmore environmental advocates.

You wouldn’t expect to find a turn-of-the-century roadster ominously dubbed the “Black Beast” at a news conference convened by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, but that’s precisely what took center stage at a media event he held at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Friday. more

Scott Brinton | 6/3/11

The village held steady on salaries, but said it must raise taxes to meet greater expenses.

Village taxes up 8 %

At a special meeting on April 4, the Island Park village board adopted its 2011-12 budget, which is about $110,000 larger than the current spending plan and includes a 7.8 percent tax increase for … more

Alex Costello | 4/13/11

This is the seventh winter storm so far.

Snow hits Rockville Centre again

Weary public works crews were back at it again on Jan. 27, once again clearing village roads of heavy, wet snow with a coating of ice brought by a strong storm that included rare lightning and thunder. more

Tom Steinert | 1/26/11

Round two with Mother Nature in Rockville Centre

Village Administrator Frank Quigley said the Department of Public Works was well prepared to deal with the snowstorm that he said dropped between 10 and 12 inches of snow in the village overnight … more

Tom Steinert | 1/19/11

LIRR workers check the tracks at Malverne station Wednesday morning.

Malverne kids get a snow day

In anticipation of the snow storm expected to hit the New York metropolitan region, including Long Island, and blanket the area in 12 to 18 inches of snow, Malverne schools declared Wednesday, Jan. … more

By Lee Landor | 1/11/11

The Department of Public Works said that it is is well-equipped to deal with the latest snowstorm.

Village of Rockville Centre works through another blizzard

Village Administrator Frank Quigley said that the Department of Public Works was well-prepared to deal with the blizzard that dropped around a foot of snow in the village overnight and into this … more

Tom Steinert | 1/11/11

The Nassau County Department of Public Works continues to truck raw sewage through Merrick.

County continues to truck sewage through Merrick

Trucking of raw sewage from Nassau County’s Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to a pumping station on Merrick Road in Merrick is continuing as the county works to fix mechanical problems at the Bay Park plant, said Bill Fonda, a state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman, in an interview on Thursday. more

David Weingrad | 1/6/11

By midday on Dec. 30, crews had yet to fully clear this municipal parking lot on South Centre Avenue.

The storm in Rockville Centre that kept on giving

After what was described as a “significant winter snowstorm” by Village Administrator Frank Quigley last week, the Rockville Centre Department of Public Works was left with the task of removing … more

Tom Steinert | 1/5/11

Construction has begun on Malverne’s Department of Public Works facility, part of which will become the Volunteer Ambulance Corps’s new headquarters.

Village, MVAC at odds over headquarters rent

The Malverne Volunteer Ambulance Corps is one month closer to having its own headquarters in the village. Part of the Department of Public Works facility — the one-rig garage that housed one … more

By Lee Landor | 12/22/10

The Nassau County Department of Public Works is shipping raw sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to this pumping station on Merrick Road in Merrick. The sewage is then piped to the Cedar Creek treatment plant in Wantagh. The plan is a temporary fix for mechanical problems at Bay Park.

County trucking sewage across the South Shore

Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Nassau County Department of Public Works is trucking up to 80,000 gallons of raw sewage each day from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway through Baldwin and Freeport to a red brick pumping station in Merrick. more

David Weingrad and Scott Brinton | 12/17/10

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