At the recent installation of officers the Plainview Fire Department, officials from Nassau County and the Town of Oyster Bay honored Ex-Chief Al Calamo for completion of 50 continuous years of service with the Plainview Fire Department and the citizens of Plainview Old-Bethpage. FULL STORY

The Plainview Water District has the responsibility to provide drinking water to the 32,000 residents of the Plainview and Old Bethpage area. For the past several years, the Plainview Water District has led the battle to ban the use of MTBE in automotive gasoline that has finally come to pass in New York State in January 2004. MTBE is a gasoline additive, which is non-biodegradable, has a propensity to sink into the aquifer system and is soluble in water. FULL STORY