Laurel Hollow News

"It's really our battle now . . . it's for the young families," said Rebecca M. Alesia, 31." I think there's an element of being out of touch with what people in my generation are going through." Alesia is the daughter of Oyster Bay Planning Commissioner Jack Libert, a prominent development attorney.

Members of Nassau 's Democratic committee returned Wednesday to the same hotel where, at a state party convention in 2006, they formed an island of Thomas Suozzi supporters in a sea of Eliot Spitzer backers.

When open auditions for Sex and the City 2 called for "fashion models, socialites, and soccer players," The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana had to wonder: Did she have what it takes? What does it take to land a non-speaking role as an anonymous party girl in the upcoming Sex and the City sequel? Grit, determination, hours of free time on a weekday, and ...

When open auditions for Sex and the City 2 called for "fashion models, socialites, and soccer players," The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana had to wonder: Did she have what it takes? What does it take to land a non-speaking role as an anonymous party girl in the upcoming Sex and the City sequel? Grit, determination, hours of free time on a weekday, and ...

I don't think I could finish all of the suggested books in one summer's reading, as there are only so many hours in a day.

Swimmers beware...that's what Nassau County is telling people looking to spend their days on the beach.

If the chairmen of the state's two major political parties want to meet for lunch, they could both walk to a diner on Northern Boulevard.

Back in the water! All Nassau County beaches on the North and South shores - except for two - are open to bathers, the county's health department announced Monday.

She looks as cool and polished as a 1940s glamour queen, but Alexandra Ansanelli presents a baffling contradiction. The raven-haired American star of London's Royal Ballet, healthy, uninjured and in the prime of an extraordinary career, is doing what virtually no ballerina in her to-die-for position does -- especially not in a recession. The 28-year-old is about to give it all up.

Tomorrow will be Ansanelli's last U.S. performance. The former New York City Ballet principal, celebrated for her athletic daring in that company's George Balanchine repertoire, will perform a radically different work here: Frederick Ashton's heated one-act drama, 'A Month in the Country.' On Thursday, Ansanelli goes back to London, though the Royal Ballet, which opens tonight, continues its run at the Kennedy Center Opera House through Sunday. She'll pack up her flat and prepare for her last performance ever, next month in Havana, where, with the same Ashton ballet, she will say goodbye to a 13-year career that in many ways you could call enchanted -- or deeply shadowed.

The Nassau County Department of Health reopened three beaches Saturday that had been closed as a precaution due to storm water runoff.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory unveiled a $100-million complex Friday it says will focus on such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's. The six-building, 100,000- square-foot research compound, called the Hillside Laboratories, is the largest expansion in the 119-year history of Cold Spring Harbor Lab, which is located in Laurel Hollow.

A week ago, Anthony Cavasinni and Ryan Harrigan could have stopped at a red light and turned no heads.

MyFoxNY.com - The Nassau County Department of Health has closed 22 beaches after heavy rainfall this past week.