Seeking to remedy an unexpected shift in the school tax burden for homeowners and to establish a formal procedure for notification of base proportion figures - a component in each school district's yearly budget estimate of school tax rates - Elmont School District officials recently met with Nassau County Board of Assessors Chairman Charles O'Shea. FULL STORY

New York State Assemblyman Tom Alfano relates election day to the day report cards come out in schools. Whether he gets good marks or not will be evident in whether residents of the 22nd Assembly district, which encompasses, among other areas, Elmont, Franklin Square and West Hempstead, vote to re-elect him. FULL STORY