The $228 million plant in Mastic is in addition to $1 billion in sewer infrastructure projects planned in Suffolk in the next three years, County Executive Edward P. Romaine said at the plant Monday.

The Department of Education (DOE) accounts for about 3.5% of the entire federal budget and provides crucial funding for public K–12 schools, narrowing some of the huge gaps between needed resources and state and local revenue.

After Transportation Security Administration officers learned their union contract would no longer be honored, Copiague resident and longtime TSA employee Thomas Schoregge was told his union office at Kennedy Airport would be closed and he had to report back to "the line."