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State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia met with Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky about graduation diplomas for students with disabilities.
No Regents test means no diploma
High school students with learning disabilities who are hoping to graduate from New York state schools are finding their way blocked by a new requirement that gives them a special certificate … more
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Timothy Schlameuss who has volunteered for 11,000 hours.
Volunteers give thousands of hours to SNCH
While some community based organization are struggling to find volunteers, South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside is recognizing people who have given thousands of hours of service. Anne … more
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Due to contaminants the state Department of Health is recommending limits on eating some fish from Long Island waters.
Fish for free this weekend
New York State residents and visitors may fish for free without a fishing license in the state’s lakes, ponds, rivers and streams during the weekend of June 27-28, and Veteran’s Day, November 11. more
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Sen. Orrin Hatch
Largest phone scam in IRS history
The scam phone calls are coming to Island Park, Oceanside, Nassau County, New York State, all over the nation, claiming to be the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and demanding money. more
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FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, left, met with Sens. Bob Mendenez, Cory Booker, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on Mar. 11.
Action for Sandy victims
After a meeting on March 11 with U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, of New Jersey, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate announced that the agency had agreed to reopen and review every flood insurance claim — approximately 144,000 — filed in New York and New Jersey by victims of Hurricane Sandy, and not limit corrective action to just the 2,200 claims that are now in litigation. more
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South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside
South Nassau warns of possible contaminations
South Nassau Communities Hospital is recommending that "a specific group of patients" get tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C after discovering that they may have been treated with contaminated insulin. According to … more
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Devin Logan, left, with her silver medal, stands on the Medalist podium with Canadians Dara Howell, who took the gold, and Kim Lamarre, the bronze winner.
A Q&A with Olympic medalist Devin Logan
We asked former Baldwin and Oceanside resident Devin Logan, who won a silver medal in slopestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, some questions we thought local residents would ask her. … more
Former Assemblyman Jerry Kremer has penned a new book.
Kremer pens Albany insider book
From his days as a cub reporter in Long Beach to the pinnacle of New York State politics as the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Jerry Kremer tells all. The sponsor of more than 250 … more
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The big picture
Working in the film industry for over 20 years, Oceanside-based screenwriter Jim Malone, 47, looked forward to filming a trailer for his award-winning screenplay, the first major project he has … more
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Jenny Hannigan, left, and attorney Amy B. Marion held a press conference a week ago, after Hannigan filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Nassau County police officer of sexual abuse.
Island Park arrest leads to sexual abuse lawsuit
A Baldwin woman who claims she was sexually abused by a police officer in the rear seat of his patrol car after she was arrested in Island Park 2½ years ago has filed a federal lawsuit against him … more
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