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Allied Universal, which provides a security guard for the Village of Roslyn Harbor, is increasing its rate for the village and wants to extend the guard’s hours, company representatives said at a village Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night.
The guard currently works 20 hours a week, with five-hour evening shifts, said security services operation manager Renny Raju....

Concerning your Editorial about ” Reefer Madness,” there are two major issues.
Where should the medical marihuana dispensary be located and, if it ever becomes legal, should it be at the same site. It is already located in the Town of North Hempstead (along with another dispensary of marihuana) so there is no reason to move it...

Tensions have seemingly calmed among Hempstead Town Board members since they voted 6-1 to pass a heavily debated $432.5 million budget for 2019, but questions still remain over the concept known as “less savings.”
Several experts in municipal finance, including one current and one former Nassau Interim Finance Authority director, said they had never heard of the idea outside of Hempstead Town government....

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock provided a $100,000 grant to ERASE Racism, which the organization is using to fund a series of public forums addressing racism on Long Island.
The program, called “How Do We Build a Just Long Island?” intends to start a conversation about moving past segregation....