The northbound lanes of the Wantagh Parkway will be closed between Jones Beach and Merrick Road until 7 p.m. on Nov. 18. New York State Parks Deputy Regional Director George Gorman said to expect intermittent closures on the southbound side for no more than 10 minutes at a time. The parkway is facing closures because of a movie that is being filmed there.
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11/18/10
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Updated: 2:30 p.m.Nassau County Police and the U.S. Marshals Service cordoned off the Bellmore Post Office and surrounding streets at around 11 a.m. today, shutting down Merrick Road for several blocks to the east and west. According to police, a woman who U.S. marshals were tracking turned up at the mail facility with a bottle marked "sodium cyanide."
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Scott Brinton and Deirdre Krasula
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10/1/10
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It is described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience — the chance to write a Torah, Judaism’s founding ethical and legal text, found in the five Books of Moses. That was what the Congregation Ohr Zarua of the Bellmore Jewish Center did to mark its 50th anniversary.
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Deirdre Krasula
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9/28/10
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