Top Stories From Your Neighboring Patches

Wondering what's happening in other areas Patch covers? We were, too.

Below, you'll find the top three stories from each of several neighboring Patches. You can click the links to be taken to the full stories.

Five Towns

• A group of merchants in Woodmere are to try to get shoppers to visit the flagging business area.
• A teen from North Woodmere used his Bar Mitzvah as an opportunity to do some good, including at the Town of Hempstead shelter.
• A mother and daughter were recently arrested for the of an 18-year-old woman that took place in July.

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 where , leaving it up to residents to dig themselves out.

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

• 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.