Massapequa Park News

As the year comes to a close, the Village of Massapequa Park held public meetings, dealing with the usual issues of traffic and commercial construction.

On Saturday, Dec. 19 at 2 p.m., the Massapequa Park Library at 40 Harbor Lane will have the Massapequa Park Movie Man John Carpenter present as his last Classic Film Program until March another one of his rare screen gems from out of his 3,000-plus film collection.

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2008 file photo provided by Kelly Maude Leugn, Zach Leung, 6, left, and Zoe Leung, 4, work on homemade wrapping paper at their home in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Add this to your list of holiday rituals: After trimming the tree and fighting the crowds for doorbuster deals, there's the annual hunt through a closet for last year's ...

The weather failed to cooperate, but neither rain nor hail could stop the Massapequa community from coming together last Saturday to take a stand against substance abuse.

The Babylon branch of the Long Island Rail Road was experiencing delays of up to 25 minutes Friday morning because of a switch problem in Wantagh, railroad officials said.

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B ronx: It is an abomination that anyone not invited to a White House event could get within 100 yards of the President and the First Lady.

Please join the annual local protest of the School of Americas in front of the office of Rep.

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Photo credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr. Rev. Diane Dunne stands in the charred remains of her food pantry and soup kitchen after a fire broke out on Sunday Nov 15, 2009.

The agendas of the public meetings of the Village of Massapequa Park Board of Trustees remain modest in scope and size.

Since April of this year, the Mobilized Interfaith Coalition Against Hunger has lobbied the Village of Massapequa Park for a shuttle bus to connect residents to the Long Island Rail Road and mass transit buses.

Ed Mangano sits in his campaign headquarters in Hicksville as the race for Nassau County Executive is still to close to call on Wednesday.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray Each of the veteran supervisors in Nassau's three towns was projected to win last night, though the race in one town, North Hempstead , was very close until incumbent Jon Kaiman pulled ahead.

Goldie Steinberg, who turns 109 years old today, with her son Donald Sargent and daughter Anne Teicher at a party to celebrate her birthday on Friday, October 30, 2009 in Long Beach, New York.

The Seventh Squad reports the details of a robbery that occurred in Massapequa on Tuesday, Oct.

Kudos to the two off-duty officers who were able to ward off their attackers using their service revolvers ["Cops refuse to be crime victims," News, Oct.

McCauley: Jumping in front of the Eiffel Tower at night is just one of the many splendors of studying abroad in France.

On Nov. 3, voters in the 12th district will select their representative to the Nassau County Legislature.

John Twarowski, 29, of Harmony Drive, sold heroin to undercover detectives three times in Wantagh and Massapequa during a three-month period beginning in June, Narcotics Bureau detectives said.