Saturday, May 19, 2012
A weekly look-in at the news of Nassau County.
The Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) on Thursday rejected County Executive Ed Mangano's proposed contract with Morgan Stanley to broker a deal for a privatized sewer system. The deal would have paid the financial service firm at least $5 million to broker a deal for the county with a private operator for the sewer system and an investor who would fund the transaction. According to Long Island Business News: The contract, approved by the Nassau Legislature April 16, would have retained Morgan Stanley to find an investor that would lend the county upward of $750 million in exchange for making a profit from running the county’s failing sewer system. "The NIFA board is clearly confused about the potential public-private partnership for …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Come and enjoy many free classes at the Eisenhower Park-based facility.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano recently announced that a "Family Fitness Day" will be held at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow on May 19. The theme of the day is exercise, and there will be a variety of free classes for people who have leisure passes. The day starts off with a Zumba class at 9 a.m. Spinning will be offered at 10:15 a.m., Boot Camp at 11:15 a.m., and Tai Chi/Yoga will be at 12:30 p.m. Class space is limited and will be available on a first come first serve basis. For more information about the Nassau County Aquatic Center located in Eisenhower Park, please call: 516-572-0501 or visit the website. Do you know about an important upcoming deadline? Share it in the comments below and we’ll consider …
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The NuHealth CEO spoke to a group of East Meadow locals about the ongoing parking issues around Nassau University Medical Center.
Safety and parking issues continue to plague residents in the community surrounding Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC). NuHealth CEO Arthur Gianelli updated residents on the hospital’s continued efforts to combat parking problems in the local neighborhoods on Monday night, noting that “there has always been an issue relative to parking from the neighborhood generated from this campus.” “It got exacerbated last year when our parking garage was closed and we had to shift very quickly to the utilization of stackers,” he said. Gianelli said that he has been doing a series of things to try to “reduce the impact on the community,” including the creation of surface parking areas for patients and employees, and closing a building and moving …
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Nassau University Medical Center
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Debbie Kirsh elected as President of the East Meadow community service organization.
East Meadow resident, and mother of two, Debbie Kirsh will continue a longstanding tradition of helping the community -- as the newly elected President of East Meadow’s Kiwanis club. “I love this club, I love this community, and I am looking forward to leading the club,” said Kirsh, a seven-year member, noting that she is “only the third woman president of the club.” Kiwanis held its annual elections on Tuesday evening, where new members of the Executive Board and Board of Directors were elected. Board of Directors members hold a three-year term, according to current East Meadow Kiwanis President Mitchell Allen. “We basically are rotating every year with three individuals,” he added. All newly elected positions do not go into effect until …
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Empress Diner
2490 Hempstead Tpke, East Meadow, NY
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
This handsome cat is look for his forever home.
Name: Marbles Case Number: #4827 Hi, I'm Marbles, a male American short hair cat who is looking for a loving home. Right now, I'm staying at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh as I wait for a nice person to adopt me. I've already been altered, I'm up-to-date on my vaccines, and I can be microchipped upon adoption. Adoption hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. You can contact the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter at 516-785-5220.
A weekly look-in at news from around the Town of Hempstead.
Seniors Present Works From The Creative Writers' Workshop Hempstead Town has announced that members of the Department of Senior Enrichment’s Creative Writers' Workshop are holding a reading of their original works on Wednesday, June 13. The presentation will be held at 1 p.m. at the Merrick Theatre and Center for the Arts, located at 2222 Hewlett Ave. in Merrick. The public is invited to attend the annual event and admission is free. The readings will be followed by an informal coffee hour. The short stories, poems and memoirs produced by seniors in workshop sessions will be published by the town this fall in an annual compilation entitled "Musings of Maturity XXIV." The Creative Writers' Workshop is partially funded through a grant from …
Saturday, May 12, 2012
The purpose of the visit was to promote child safety.
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Saturday, May 12
Hempstead Town Councilman Gary Hudes and Town Clerk Mark A. Bonilla recently conducted the Town of Hempstead Child Safety Fingerprinting Identification Program with youngsters at Barnum Woods Elementary School in East Meadow. Also pictured with the students are Principal Gregory Bottari, Assistant Principal Kelly O’Brian and Gina Depano. Did your child take part in this? Tell us in the comments.
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Barnum Woods Elementary School
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A weekly look-in at the news of Nassau County.
Republicans Rip Democrats Over Voting The following is a joint statement from County Executive Ed Mangano, Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt and the Republican Legislative Caucus: "During the decade in which the Democrats controlled the County Legislature, Republicans put politics aside and provided the responsible votes necessary to run county government. Unfortunately for Nassau's taxpayers, the Democrat minority on the legislature is now refusing to implement a plan that forever ends borrowing for tax refunds while cleaning up debt created over the past decade. If the Democrats do not provide the votes needed to pay residents their rightfully owed property tax refunds, judgments will be executed against the County’s bank accounts — …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The New York State Department of Transportation has already implemented a numbers of safety initiatives.
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) announced Monday a series of pedestrian safety improvements along Hempstead Turnpike as part of a multi-agency initiative to enhance safety along the dangerous thoroughfare. Since March of this year, the NYSDOT has made a variety of pedestrian safety improvements on Hempstead Turnpike, including remarking 235 crosswalks — more than half of which were widened — increasing pedestrian crossing times at 86 traffic signals, reprogramming dozens of crosswalks and adding new features to the crossing buttons. "Working cooperatively with our local, state and federal partners, we examined and analyzed the entire Hempstead Turnpike corridor this spring, developed a plan for enhancing pedestrian…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
A letter to the editor from the President of the Long Island Federation of Labor.
The following is from John R. Durso, President of the Long Island Federation of Labor: It is the bedrock of American democracy that every citizen's vote carries equal importance. Whether or not one's vote truly finds expression in the final count is largely impacted by redistricting, a process we go through every 10 years. While the subject typically fails to garner much public attention, insiders know there's a lot at stake. The way that voters are segregated into districts has an enormous influence on who our representatives are, and can ultimately shape public policies for the next decade. Historically, the task of redrawing district lines has been left to the hands of the very politicians whose political futures will be impacted. Too …
Hollingsworth
8:51 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
Mangano has been lying to everyone. The plants are operating in the black. They are not going bankrupt in two years and he does not have to raise our taxes by 22% (or $40 a year). Yes, there are needed repairs. The machinery is over 20 years old and needs to be replaced. Over $400 million worth of improvements were already approved in 2009 and Mangano has only implemented $70 million worth of … more ›