Residents will vote Tuesday in special elections to fill vacant seats in the Assembly and in the Suffolk County Legislature.

The Matawan-Aberdeen board voted Tuesday night to keep subscription busing for another year, at a cost of $229,000.

A1 Harvard's president opposes a union and its efforts to organize the university's office workers, who vote Tuesday on whether to accept union representation.

However, the Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday night to appeal that ruling to the state Supreme Court.

The City Council voted Tuesday night to ban the sale of realistic-looking toy guns.

So the Assembly voted Tuesday afternoon to call a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday to make the choice.

Nearly three-quarters of eligible adults did not vote last Tuesday, a new low, despite a hotly contested Democratic primary for governor and several controversial ballot measures.

But residents here will vote Tuesday on a referendum at least as novel as the orginal vision for development.

Some 267,000 Suffolk Republicans and 14,700 Conservatives are eligible to vote Tuesday in the county executive contest.

But both houses of the State Legislature here voted Tuesday night to override the veto, thereby making it law.