- North Shore Farms' application to occupy the former Rite Aid buliding, which sits at the intersection of Pea Pond Road and Jerusalem Avenue, was granted with conditions, according to the Hempstead Town Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA). Click here for more.
- A Merrick man was arrested Friday after he allegedly threatened threatened a woman with a gun, cops said. Click here for more from the Nassau County Police Department.
- The North Bellmore Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday protesting upcoming state-mandated assessment testing for school districts, including the adoption of the Common Core learning standards. For more on this, click this link.
- Nancy Boland, the Bellmore woman who killed her ex-husband and dumped his body on the Wantagh Parkway bike path in November of 2011, was sentenced to seven additional years in prison Friday for beating her elderly mother. Click here for the details.
- An eighth grader that goes to Grand Avenue Middle School was approached by a stranger in a sedan Wednesday morning, according to an email to parents from Principal Carlo A. Conte. For a closer look at this story, click here.
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