With a proposed rate increase for Long Island Rail Road riders looming, state Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. announced a petition drive last week to fight it. more

Gone are the days where students could skip class and rush home to erase the automated message sent by the school district off of the answering machine. Set to launch in September, the Oceanside … more

Optimum Online, a subsidiary of Cablevision — one of the nation’s largest cable providers — was plagued by outages in its e-mail services that lasted from early Thursday until Friday … more

The Valley Stream Central High School District will launch its new interactive Web site next week, officials said, and the new site will feature more pictures of students, have downloadable forms, and offer access to assignments for students who are absent. more

Richner Communications, Inc., publishers of 27 local publications on Long Island and in the Bronx, including the Herald Community Newspapers, has joined with community newspaper companies from across the United States to launch Zip2Save.com, a comprehensive national aggregation site that will feature online preprints, circulars, coupons, deals, travel specials and more. The sitewill launch on Oct. 1 by Local Point Media, a recently established national advertising network that is owned by Richner Communications and 18 other large, community newspaper companies in the United States and Canada. more