Latest Nassau County, New York Stories
By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 21--In 2003, FALA Direct Marketing of Melville took delivery of what was billed as one of the largest solar-power installations in the world, most of it paid for with a $4.1-million gift from the Long Island Power Authority. Five years later, FALA is gone, its three buildings in Melville largely shuttered and up for lease. Most of the benefit of the cheaper power, compliments of LIPA, went to Minnesota-based firm IWCO, which bought FALA in...
By Olivia Winslow, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 17--Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct an additional public meeting in barrier-beach communities on new flood maps in Nassau County, on top of three open houses the agency already scheduled elsewhere. The new maps would take in an additional 28,000 residential, commercial and public buildings that could be at risk in Nassau County due to storm surge or heavy rains. In a letter dated...
By Bart Jones, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jun. 27--Citing "staggering" energy costs, the Long Island Power Authority yesterday approved a 3 percent increase that will boost the typical customer's monthly bill by $4.44 a month. The increase, approved by LIPA's board of trustees and the second in six months, takes effect Tuesday. LIPA president and chief executive Kevin Law said the hike was unavoidable given the record prices for natural gas and oil, which are used to generate electricity....
