FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN. Two school districts -- Northport-East Northport and Greenlawn -- are considering providing full-day kindergarten. The Northport board, resolved after decades of study, consideration and unsuccessful funding bids, voted unanimously recently to look into the space needed for staff and facilities to do so. For stories Christopher F. Holfester and Arlene Gross in the Times of Northport, click here.
TRAFFIC STUDY FOR LOWE’S. An analysis prepared for the Town of Huntington finds that a proposed Lowe’s Home Center on Jericho Turnpike near Route 110 finds that it would not worsen traffic there, according to an article in The Long Islander by Mike Koehler. To read it, click here.
CHARGES AGAINST POLICE. Two Northport men are seeking $10 million each in a suit against three village police officers they say used excessive force against them during an arrest on November 9. The village board may discuss it at its meeting Thursday night. For Patricia Proven’s story in The Times of Northport, Click here.
COIN COLLECTION. Students in the Half Hollow Hills district are getting ready to gather spare change as part of a program to fight hunger on Long Island. Island Harvest’s Coin Harvest Campaign has school children across the Island collecting coins for two-week periods between February and May. For Tricia Arend’s story on the drive, click here.