Residents went to the polls on Super Tuesday to vote on their local school budget, and while the majority of spending plans for the 2005-2006 school year passed, like recent years, some school budgets did suffer defeats. FULL STORY

In June 2003, residents of West Hempstead approved a referendum to construct a new public library on the corner of Hempstead Avenue and Woodfield Road. However, nearly three years later, ground has yet to be broken on the facility. West Hempstead Library Board President Ralph Reissman blamed the West Hempstead School Board, saying that if it were not for the school board's interference, the library would have been half-built by now. FULL STORY