Community Corner

News From Neighboring Towns, Jan. 16

Patch brings you a weekly rundown of stories from Long Beach, Lynbrook, Malverne-West Hempstead and Rockville Centre.

Here are the most interesting stories from neighboring Patches this week:

Long Beach

  • A former president of a real estate company admitted in court that he by taking money for a Long Beach property he didn’t own.
  • Despite a financial crisis and prices that range from $1.3 million to $3.3 million, the newly-built luxury condominiums known as the for 22 of its 36 units.
  • In something that many Nassau County residents can't even imagine, there is a neighborhood in Long Beach, Walks, where , leaving it up to residents to dig themselves out.

Lynbrook

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  • In his first , newly-sworn-in Mayor Bill Hendrick said that Lynbrook's financial house is in good standing for 2011.
  • At the same meeting, Thomas Atkinson was to Lynbrook's board of trustees to fill the seat vacated by Hendrick.
  • In a bit of news sure to excite neighboring communities (RVC and Long Beach should probably kill this part), Regal is considering building a where the UA Lynbrook 6 currently stands.

Malverne-West Hempstead

  • The father of Conor McDonald, an NYPD officer, was shot while on patrol in Central Park in 1986, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. McDonald recently himself.
  • A West Hempstead man and his 22 dogs that had broken out at the home.
  • A West Hempstead man was arrested for a child pornography image to numerous people through e-mail.

Rockville Centre

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  • The Rockville Centre village board approved a measure that would into one.
  • Hempstead Town Animal Control Officers from a Rockville Centre home. The officials found four dead dogs and a dead cat at the house.
  • Katie Dunn, who scored more than 1,000 points in her four-year basketball career, will try to take some of that magic with her as for South Side's girls basketball team.


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