What: Jobs FairWhen: Friday, June 21, noon to 4 p.m.Where: Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre For more information about the upcoming jobs fair or any other …
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At a June 5 ceremony at the Woodbury Country Club, Herald Community Newspapers took home four honors in the Press Club of Long Island’s annual Media Awards contest.
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The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads.
Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school.
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Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4) has revealed that she has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer — and that she’s committed to beating this latest challenge.
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A combined $370,000 in stolen Medicaid, food stamps and other public assistance benefits has led to the arrests of 12 people, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced on May 30.
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Abby Wambach, the two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, will be interviewed by Coleman Country campers and provide soccer tips when she visits the camp in Merrick this summer, announced Camp Director Ross Coleman.
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For more than a half-century, Herb Ruben was an advocate for mental health services on Long Island, leading one of the most respected agencies in Nassau County. The long-time leader of the Peninsula Counseling Center died on May 20 at the age of 87.
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Dr. Stanley J. Berke, one of the founding partners of OCLI in Lynbrook, has opened a new eye care practice in Westbury. Berke held a “meet and greet” on …
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Prior to the excitement of last Sunday’s Long Island Marathon, there was complete silence for 26 seconds — one second for each mile in a marathon. The moment of silence was held to commemorate the victims of the bombings during the Boston Marathon on April 15.
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