James Galloway

James Galloway

Floral Park mayor seeks one last term

Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy is running unopposed for re-election this March, and he says his third race will also

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Former Queens prosecutor runs for East Williston trustee

James Iannone is an avid sports fan, but his first run for elected office isn’t much of race. Iannone is

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Mineola tax levy to increase, but not by 2 percent

Mineola School District’s total tax levy for the next fiscal year is projected to be about $80 million, a 1.37

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Suspect sought in Mineola sandwich robbery

Nassau County police are looking for a suspect who they said robbed Subway sandwich shop in Mineola at gunpoint Tuesday

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At NHP-GCP budget meeting, parent concerns with class sizes

In its second public budget workshop this year, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District’s Board of Education heard an

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A dog’s torn ACL, mended by stem cells

When Rusty, an energetic brown mixed-breed dog, tore his ACL in 2012, his owner decided against surgery, the standard procedure,

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Six incumbents, six races uncontested in New Hyde Park, Floral Park

It takes only eight words to sum up the upcoming elections in New Hyde Park and Floral Park: six positions,

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Bierwirth eyes more teachers, smaller classes for Herricks

Hiring teachers to reduce class sizes is front-and-center in the superintendent’s 2015-16 budget recommendation for Herricks Union Free School District, as

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L.I. assemblymembers react to new speaker

stie of the Bronx as the chamber’s first new speaker in two decades last week, and three Long Island Assembly

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Man arrested for going wrong way on LIE

A Dix Hills man was arrested in North Hills early Friday on drunk driving charges and for driving the wrong

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In 2015-16, Bierwirth looks to add services

Herricks Superintendent John Bierwirth recently released his budget recommendations for the 2015-16 fiscal year, saying that for the second-straight year

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In Mineola and E. Williston elections, one candidate per race

Five words are sufficient to sum up the ticket for March elections in East Williston and Mineola: six candidates for

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Mineola student receives journalism award

Sanskriti Bimal, a junior at Mineola High School, recently won two prestigious awards from the Alliance for Young Artists and

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Winthrop opens $110 million diabetes research center

Winthrop-University Hospital this week celebrated the opening of its 95,000-square-foot, $110 million diabetes and obesity research center, signaling the end

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State lawmakers react to new Assembly speaker announcement

The state Assembly elected Carl Heastie of the Bronx as the chamber’s first new speaker in two decades last week,

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