Nine Nassau businesses, including the Home Depot store on Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont, have been charged by District Attorney Denis Dillon with violating a local law that prohibits the sale of box cutters to minors and also regulates the manner in which they are displayed. FULL STORY

The Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education met for its annual reorganization meeting and re-elected Martin Cernese of New Hyde Park - Garden City Park as its president. Cernese has been a trustee of the New Hyde Park/Garden City Park Board of Education in 1992 and appointed to the Sewanhaka Central High School District board in 1994. He has a bachelor's degree in Operations and Management, a master's degree in business from the New York Institute of Technology, and is currently director of the Eastern Region of Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Cernese has been a resident of New Hyde Park for the past 25 years. He and his wife Noreen have three children: Nicholas, a senior at Boston University, Richard a junior at NYU and Danielle a student at New Hyde Park Memorial High School. FULL STORY

Rampart Brokerage Papoose Division FULL STORY