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A birds-eye view of the new home ice of the Islanders during their 2013 preseason game in the Barclays Center, which the Islanders lost to the New Jersey Devils 3-0. The Islanders will have a rematch with the Devils in the new arena on Sept. 26
NY Islanders to play preseason game
New York Islanders fans anxious to get an early look at the Barclays Center, the Islanders’ new Brooklyn home starting in the 2015-16 NHL season, can do so on Sept. 26, when the Islanders will host … more
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Mia Barkan Clarke, a Merrick resident and artist, in her studio with the piece entitled “Freya Flowing Bifrost.”
Portrait of a Merrick artist and poet
“I’m really a dichotomous person living in one body,” said Mia Barkan Clarke, a Merokean who has been creating art for more than 20 years. Barkan Clarke recently presented an exhibition and poetry reading titled “Freya’s Tears” at the Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts gallery in Sayville. She has worked on the series since 2011 and is expected to publish the book of her drawings and poetry within the next few months. more
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Katherine Melzer-Ross, MD, FACOG.
Q: How does my monthly menstrual cycle relate to my hormones?
A: This article is the first contribution in a series of pieces that will address female fertility and gynecologic issues that women face. While many of us received standard health education classes … more
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Thomas Saltzman explained the history of the Town of Hempstead’s many villages while pointing at the page of an E. Belcher Hyde atlas.
Digging in Saltzman’s vaults
“This was the graveyard of the town,” Thomas Saltzman murmured, gesturing toward the carefully kept shelves of records that line the walls of the Town of Hempstead Archives. “This was every … more
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Paul Laursen, second from left, son of Faith Laursen, joined Barbara and Bill Wood, members of the Friends of the Faith Laursen Preserve, outside the 25-acre nature reserve.
Merrick-Bellmore preserve named for 'force of nature'
The 25-acre Faith Laursen Meroke Preserve, on the Bellmore-Merrick border, is a forest much like most of Long Island used to be. The Meroke Indians camped by its five streams, and Colonists used its tall cedars for ship masts. Legend says during the Revolutionary War British soldiers hid there from marauding Colonials. (Most of the Bellmore-Merrick area farmers were British sympathizers.) more
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Michael Dolber, a retired Merrick Avenue Middle School social studies teacher, was 13 years old when President Kennedy was killed. He was in French class when word reached his junior high school that the president was dead. He was pictured here teaching at MAMS last February, shortly before his retirement.
Retired MAMS teacher: Where I was when JFK was killed
On the day President Kennedy was killed, my mother turned 41 years of age –– only 5 years younger than he was. I was 13, a ninth-grader at JHS 68 in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Our neighbors were coming over that evening for coffee and cake, and as I sat in my French class sometime after 1 p.m., I was thinking about birthday cake and the upcoming weekend. French was not foremost in my mind, nor was the idea that in a few minutes I would get news of an event that would turn our history upside down. more
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The New York Islanders opened training camp on Sept. 12 in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The team is moving into the arena in 2015.
Islanders open training camp in Brooklyn
The New York Islanders took to the ice on Sept. 12, beginning training camp with shooting and skating drills in their soon-to-be home at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. more
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Kevin Brennan’s Mepham High School yearbook photo from 2001.
Man who shot Mepham grad sentenced to life
A Brooklyn man who shot a Mepham High School graduate in the head and killed another woman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2012 incidents, Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes said. more
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Bruce Ratner, the executive chairman of Forest City Ratner, led the development of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The developer is proposing to rebuild the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale.
Bruce Ratner: ‘We’re good at getting it done’
Standing outside of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Bruce Ratner spoke proudly of the arena that was developed by his company, Forest City Ratner, of which he is executive chairman. The 675,000-square-foot complex, complete with a 19,000-seat concert hall, is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and will be home to the New York Islanders beginning in 2015. Its design, internally and externally, is the benchmark for how he wishes to transform the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. more
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A Coliseum for the taxpayers
Let’s face it: The golden years of the Nassau Coliseum have come and gone. more
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