East Rockaway News

Children at a playground in East Rockaway in 2005. Rubber safety mats have become a fixture of children's playgrounds in New York City, buffering heads, hands and other body parts when children slip and fall.

Hazel Homer, 104, in her yard in East Rockaway, N.Y., received a pacemaker five years ago.

Thom Loverro is now blogging...and starts off with this beaut of an interview with writer/producer David Simon.

The Hitzler family Nolan 12, Bridget, Griffin, 8, and Doug, enjoy vacation together before Lou Gehrig's Disease changed their lives.

By Joe Rizza From Mineola Village Hall to Capitol Hill? That's the journey that Mineola Mayor Jack M. Martins hopes to take this November after he became the Republican Party's choice to take on Carolyn ...

VOTING 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday at East Rockaway High School. THE BUDGET The district is proposing a budget of $32,004,070 for the 2008-09 school year, a 7.76 percent increase over the current ... via Newsday.com

Following recent accidents at grade crossings in Bethpage and East Rockaway, the Long Island Rail Road said yesterday it will increase police patrols in those areas and mount safety awareness campaigns. via Newsday.com

Just looking for something worth smiling about... Worth Mentioning... is a weekly roundup by South Jersey Online's own DJ McAneny of news stories that either occurred outside of our typical local coverage area ... via The Jersey Journal

“I was thinking about saving my mom”

As a powerful locomotive raced toward his mother's minivan, a quick-thinking Long Island boy became a virtual Superman and lifted a railroad crossing gate to let their trapped vehicle and another off the ... via New York Post

An 11-year-old boy saved his mom and a truck driver from approaching LIRR train in East Rockaway Friday. via 7Online.com

A "No Parking" sign was thrown through a window of a parked car in East Rockaway Friday by three men who were then arrested and charged with petty larceny and criminal mischief, police said. via Newsday.com

The county said Friday it will stop the shipment of up to 225,000 gallons of used cooking grease a week to the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which has been blamed by area residents for emitting foul smells. via Newsday.com

A man who had been refused entrance to a party at the East Rockaway Fire House opened fire on the group of men who had turned him away Sunday -- striking one man in the leg below the knee, police said. via Newsday.com

Courtney Gallagher threw a four-hitter and struck out 12, and Jen McComb hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to provide the final margin for Lindenhurst in a 3-1 win over Ward Melville ... via Newsday.com

“What do you suggest, we close down the sewage plant?”

Of Course Not. Elmont is Nassau County's toilet. Or was that Roosevelt? Uniondale? West Hempstead? Archstone at Moldbury? Or any of the other unincorporated hamlets that, not conincidentally, just happen to be ... via TheCommunityAlliance.org

“It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that millions of gallons of sewage a day is going to diminish the water quality of the bay”

Every day, Nassau County's Bay Park sewage plant discharges some 58 million gallons of treated effluent to Reynolds Channel amid a classic South Shore backdrop of marsh islands, migratory birds and lonely bay ... via Newsday.com

With spring quickly approaching, the Town of Hempstead is preparing for another year of S.T.O.P. Programs, which will be brought to communities throughout the township. via Three Village Times

“Instead of spending $15 million to build a pipe to bring that waste water here to Bay Park, use that money to rebuild the plant in Lawrence, rebuild the plant in Cedarhurst”

For many Bay Park and East Rockaway residents, Nassau County's sewage plant just plain stinks. via Newsday.com

Firefighters from at least six departments are fighting a raging blaze Friday morning in an Island Park neighborhood. via Newsday.com

“We've lived on Long Island all our lives and commute on the LIRR. It's comforting to hear that train whistle. We heard they were opening the train museum and decided to come.”

As part of its plan to develop the museum complex, the original 1889 Oyster Bay Station will be restored, inside and out, to its early 20th-century appearance. via Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot