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Light Rain Fog/Mist Long Beach School Board adopts budget with no tax hike
Adopted budget lower than current spending plan
The Long Beach Board of Education on Tuesday adopted a $144 million budget, about half a million lower than the current spending plan - with no tax increase. Michael DeVito, the district’s …
No weekend Far Rockaway, Long Beach LIRR service
Beginning on Friday, April 16 at 10:15 p.m. through Monday, April 19 at 3:30 a.m., service 9n both directions on the Far Rockaway and Long Beach branches of the Long Island Rail Road will be suspended for signal cutover in Valley Stream, which is part of restoration work stemming from Hurricane Sandy damage.
Long Beach to hire two firms to help it resolve nearly $500M in debt and other obligations
Saying it is almost $500 million in debt, the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting Tuesday night to hire two firms with deep experience in financial restructuring to figure …
Long Beach Police Department plan calls for more community engagement
Long Beach’s new police commissioner made clear when he took office in February that changes would be coming to the city Police Department, and this week he released a pilot plan that calls for …
Long Beach to spend $33 million on flood relief
Hazel Webb, a 65-year-old City of Long Beach maintenance worker, describes herself as a calm person. When it comes to water — flooding in particular — she becomes quite animated, …
Scoring points with kids at the MLK Center
On Monday afternoon, Sharif Fordham was dribbling a basketball, as he has been doing in many other places for most of his 42 years, starting as a teenager, playing alone in the late-evening hours …
Long Beach to consider recreational marijuana
Following New York State’s legalization of recreational marijuana earlier this week, Long Beach, like other municipalities in the state, will now have the option to either opt-in or out of the sale …
State Comptroller: Long Beach under significant fiscal stress
Long Beach remains one of three Nassau County municipalities that remained in financial stress in 2020, according to a recent report by the New York State Comptroller’s office. Comptroller …
Long Beach hires first female paid firefighter in its history
On Sept. 11, 2001, Catherine Lewis sat in her fourth-grade class at Our Lady Queen of Peace School on Staten Island, watching TV images of smoke billowing from the World Trade Center. As a …
Editorial
High-speed rail for L.I. deserves public support
With the Biden administration pushing a $2 trillion national infrastructure plan, what once seemed like a fantasy — high-speed rail for the Northeast — is slowly, steadily becoming a distinct possibility . . .
Editorial
Should municipalities opt out on marijuana?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, once an ardent detractor of any measure to legalize recreational marijuana, last week signed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act . . .
Randi Kreiss
Oldies but goodies have the right stuff
I married an older man, and this week he’s turning 75. When we met, I was 14 and he was 15.