Levittown News

As Veterans Day recedes in the rearview mirror and 2009 wears away, the Levittown Historical Society stops to pause on the events of the past eleven months.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India arrive for the State Arrival ceremony in the East Room of the White House .

The Democrat -dominated North Hempstead Town Board, headed by Suozzi ally Jon Kaiman , unanimously approved a $60-million bond to upgrade Great Neck wastewater treatment facilities rather than follow a plan pushed by Suozzi to divert North Shore sewage to the county's South Shore Cedar Creek sewage treatment plant.

More than five years ago the Levittown community welcomed me with open arms as the editor of their local newspaper.

Nassau County police have charged Charles Van Cleave, 51, of 720 Lenox Ave., Manhattan, with five counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and two counts each of second-degree and third-degree identity theft.

Manhattan : It's about time we got the 9/11 suspects out of Guantanamo and tried them, in the best traditions of our nation.

Levittown - Many claim the first outdoor, community Christmas tree to be strung with lights was here in Bucks.

Levittown - When Sharhea Wade arrived at Bryn Mawr College from a big-city high school, it seemed as if every other student on the quiet, leafy campus had graduated from an exclusive private school.But whenever she felt like a fish out of water, Wade could turn to her "posse" _ nine other girls who, like her, had been recruited from struggling ...

On Oct. 22, the New York State Assembly Minority Task Force on Crime in Our Communities held a roundtable discussion at the Levittown Public Library to discuss various matters related to crime in Nassau County.

The anti-incumbent mood reached Nassau County last Tuesday night as the Republican Party, after a decade-long hiatus from power, won back the Nassau County legislature.

For the third consecutive year, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice brought Choices and Consequences, her driver-education program aimed at teaching high school students about the dangers of drunk and reckless driving, to Levittown high schools.

At a New York State Women of Distinction ceremony on Oct. 15 at the Levittown Public Library, five of nine honorees hailed from Merrick.

The Winooski City Council canceled a Wednesday evening meeting to discuss buying a used fire truck after city officials learned the community looking to rid itself of the truck sold it to another municipality.

The 14th Legislative District encompasses the communities of Farmingdale and portions of Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainview, Levittown and North Wantagh.

But local residents and park activists aren't convinced. More than 100 of them attended a save-our-park rally yesterday morning - a month after the county issued a statement saying it had pulled the project.

But Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said 19 suspected scammers, including four from Long Island , who cheated Medicaid out of more than $350,000 in benefits either did not live in New York City, as they claimed, or had incomes too high to get the benefits.

Shazad Ghannie, 34, of 2 Saddle Lane, Levittown, told the trooper that he had been in an accident, police said.

Persi Esquivel at the Mineola courthouse after he was sentenced on Thursday. Garett Douglas says he will never forget the moment a pair of headlights crossed a double yellow line on Conklin Street and slammed into the car he was riding in last Thanksgiving weekend.

This week, Californication takes several TV and movie cliches - saying goodbye to a loved one at the airport, the visit from an old high-school friend, even the crass sight gag of sex with midgets - and turns them on their heads, with mixed results.

Nassau County, NY - Dryer vent cleaning should be added to every homeowner's annual home and appliance maintenance list.