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The death toll was climbing steadily on Monday, less than 24 hours after a lone gunman opened fire with an assault weapon from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
In the crowd at the Aldean concert was Peter Meehan, 24, of Rockville Centre, who flew to Las Vegas last Thursday to attend the three-day music festival with his girlfriend.
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By Ben Strack, Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton
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10/2/17
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In late 1916, Brooklyn’s Inez Milholland Boissevain, a prominent New York attorney and suffragist, was traveling the country, demanding equal rights for women, including the right to vote. By the time she reached the West Coast . . .
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3/9/17
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The next meeting of the Irish Cultural Society brings one of the region's top historians to the stage of the Garden City Public Library. The meeting will be held at the Garden City Public Library, 60 Seventh Street, across the street from the Garden City Hotel, on Wednesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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2/22/17
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We were supposed to have been healed by now, right? With the first African-American president finally elected not once but twice, the nation was supposed to be . . .
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2/2/17
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Feel the beat at the Madison Theatre when some chart-topping vocalists get together for a fast-paced evening of memorable hits.
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2/1/17
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A little boy in a pinstriped vest and suit pants spelt his name with paper cards, each depicting a colonial character contorting his body to make the different letters. First grade student Christopher Goff then tried to emulate the cards with his friends. He bent his knees and put his hands up to try and form the letter “H.”
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By Brian Stieglitz
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12/2/16
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In 1969, the Stonewall Inn was a hole-in-the-wall gay bar, a plain, two-story structure operated by the Mafia. No one would have suspected . . .
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10/20/16
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In honor of LGBT History Month and Coming Out Day, this past Wednesday members of Pride for Youth taped blank sheets of paper to each other’s backs before writing a trait they admired on each person’s sheet.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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10/19/16
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The July 13 meeting of the Bellmore Historical Association featured a discussion on “Bellmore: Then and Now,” for which the group exhibited items from and displayed photos of Bellmore landmarks from as far back as the 1800s, and discussed the contrast between the hamlet’s past and present.
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By Daine Taylor
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7/28/16
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June is Great Outdoors Month. It’s a recognition and celebration of all the things we can do outside. And here on the South Shore, there’s no shortage of ways to spend a day out of doors, and have lots of fun doing it.
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6/16/16
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