As part of a string of community meetings addressing economic development, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi will be coming to West Hempstead High School on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. Suozzi will be holding a public meeting on economic development for the West Hempstead, Franklin Square and Garden City South territories. FULL STORY

In January, the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education voted 5-3 to retain the Alva T. Stanforth (ATS) Junior High School property on Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont and demolish the abandoned school building. Two of the dissenting votes came from the Elmont representatives to the Sewanhaka board, Aubrey Phillips and Deanna Doreson. Both Phillips and Doreson would have preferred to have something that could benefit the community both educationally and culturally. Something like, let's say, a library. FULL STORY