If Vincent Muscarella , the longtime Republican incumbent representing Elmont , Floral Park , Franklin Square, Garden City South, Stewart Manor, and West Hempstead in the Nassau County Legislature, appears to have a familiar face, it could be because that face is plastered all over the local papers, week after week after week.

Q: I have an antique Underwood PR-4-2541 typewriter with its original cover and stand.

In less than a month, Long Island residents will be going to the polls to elect local officials for counties and towns.

A Long Island, N.Y.-based jeweler charged as part of an ongoing sting operation involving sales tax collection pleaded guilty to sales tax evasion and was ordered to pay more than $200,000, according to a release from the state Department of Taxation and Finance.

Residents living within blocks of the popular Nassau Boulevard eatery, La Bottega, and its sister restaurant, Caffe Barocco, are fed up with the traffic and parking problems they claim the restaurants are causing in their neighborhood.

Huntington now has its own La Bottega, an offshoot of the Garden City South original .

WITH only a week to go before next Thursday's county and European elections, campaigners have been working hard in Welwyn Hatfield to get their message to voters.

Tiny unmarked plastic cups sat on a table, bearing the substance for a taste test that was held at Farmingdale State College earlier this week.