Albertson News

Creating the Herricks School District In 1928, district voters authorized the construction of a second schoolhouse to serve the hundreds of homes already constructed in Williston Park and Albertson.

A fifth grade assignment focused on the 2008 presidential election, a middle school project that highlights the use of digital storytelling, and a high school program on people who changed the world have earned their schools top prizes in the second annual ISTE Media Specialist Technology Innovation Award , which recognizes collaborative technology ...

Senator Craig M. Johnson will be sponsoring upcoming mobile office hours at the Shelter Rock and Williston Park Libraries.

Benefits of Exchange My Mail service trumps high fees and management headaches of dedicated server scenarios ALBERTSON, NY: Exchange My Mail, a full service provider of customized web-based productivity solutions for small-to medium-sized businesses and web hosts, has launched its Windows Virtual Private Server service, which delivers the ...

The small, white house on Evans Drive in Albertson has an overgrown lawn strewn with weeds - but that's the least of the problems.

David Alvarez, left, Kiril Kulish, and Trent Kowalik accept the award for Best Performance by a leading Actor in a Musical, for their shared role in the show 'Billy Elliot the Musical', at the Tony Awards.

Her little "cottage" in Albertson "turns out to be just what the doctor ordered," says actress Alice Ripley, a Tony nominee more than a decade ago as a conjoined twin in "Side Show." Ripley is back on Broadway in "Next to Normal," an aching musical rock opera about mental illness, love and psychopharmacology, opening Wednesday, at the Booth ...

BY DELTHIA RICKS AND MICHAEL FRAZIER delthia.ricks@newsday.com michael.frazier@newsday.com New swine flu cases and large numbers of students with flu-like symptoms led officials on Long Island and in New York City to close more schools Wednesday while urging families to take extra precautionary measures.

The swine flu scare canceled the Nassau County Republican Convention Thursday night, but the party released the names of candidates expected to run for positions in the county's three towns in November anyway.

For years, the commercials beckoned TV viewers in New York to do something that seemed laughable at first: order a mattress by phone.

TRAFFIC LIGHT CAMERA'S This is a list of places where cameras will be installed at various intersections.

A Long Island couple addicted to heroin robbed at least six banks to support the drug habit, Nassau County police said.

Community Activist Diane Bentivegna, Garden City Park Civic Association Corresponding Secretary Janet Bevers and Research Assistant to Village of New Hyde Park, educator Dr.

On March 8, Bideawee, one of New York State's leading pet adoption services, will close its adoption center in Wantagh.

Street Names Edition, Part I: 1. Local street names were picked by housing developers, though local governments had final approval.

A fast moving fire gutted a Roslyn Heights home last Thursday, causing a significant amount of damage to the Oakdale Lane home and causing two minor injuries to firefighters.

Seventeen streets named for military and political figures from the 1898 Spanish-American War were laid out south of I.U. Willets Road on the east side of Searingtown Road, plus four additional streets south of ...

The Village of Mineola Board of Trustees recently passed a resolution declaring that the New York State Comptroller's Office acted in bad faith and illegally with respect to the comptroller's office recent ...

High winds blew a Long Island Rail Road grade-crossing gate into a passing train early Thursday, injuring eight people on the train, an official said.

It's a picture of the 1959 Wappingers Central School basketball team, champions of the old Dutchess County Scholastic League.