This fall, if all goes according to plan, Island Park residents should start seeing workers in reflective vests on Austin Boulevard — the first step in a long-awaited traffic survey to determine …
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Alex Costello
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7/21/10
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A second public meeting was held on May 12 regarding the village’s proposal to rezone the industrial area in East Rockaway (see box for more details) — this time in a larger venue, the East Rockaway High School auditorium, to accomodate residents who wanted to voice their concerns — or their support.
The first meeting, held on April 23 at Rocco’s Catering Hall, was filled to capacity and the village had to turn away residents who waited on the block-long line. The first meeting, as the second, lasted three hours.
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Mary Malloy
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5/20/10
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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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For the protection of motorists, two of the three northbound travel lanes on the Meadowbrook State Parkway (MSP) in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, will be closed to motorists beginning …
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4/19/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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With 13 pedestrian fatalities in three years, Hempstead Turnpike was named the most dangerous road in the tri-state area in a study released last week.
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Matthew Hampton
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1/14/10
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Thanks for caring To the Editor: It was simply overwhelming! That is the only way possible to describe the level of generosity of the volunteers of the Long Beach Waterfront Warriors, the Long Beach …
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1/7/10
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An expansion project at the Green Acres Mall five years ago has not had a significant impact on traffic, a recent report shows.
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Andrew Hackmack
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12/16/09
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Stop-sign
crusade is needed
To the Editor:
While my neighbor Richard Boodman's signs may be controversial, there is no doubt that his ongoing efforts for a coordinated system of all-way …
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11/5/09
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