The South Merrick Community Civic Association will feature at its next meeting a guest speaker from Project Hope, a program that provides emotional support, education, basic counseling and service referrals to people whom Hurricane Sandy affected.
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8/21/13
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The Committee to Help Oceanside Restore After Sandy is up and running. While its acronym, CHORAS, might not be familiar, many of the names of those on the volunteer committee — instituted to make …
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The city announced the opening of yet another section of the new boardwalk on Friday, and residents will now be able to stroll, bike and run on the most recently completed addition, west of Laurelton …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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8/9/13
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Nine months after Hurricane Sandy, Long Beach resident and filmmaker George Ennis is in the midst of his seventh move, as his house gets completely rebuilt.
For Ennis, it was the second blow from …
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By Kieran Lynch
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8/8/13
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West School — one of the schools that was hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy — received a $3 million reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency last week, a large chunk of funding …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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8/8/13
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Carnival Day at Barrett Park
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It was no ordinary day of summer camp at Barrett Park on Aug. 2. The camp hosted its annual Carnival Day, featuring a dunk tank, bounce castle, face painting, a variety of games and more.
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8/7/13
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Bay Park resident Dana Casas was nine months pregnant when the hurricane hit — and after losing almost all of their possessions in the storm, she and her …
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It has been more than nine months since Hurricane Sandy decimated Nassau County’s South Shore, but for many residents of Bay Park and East Rockaway, the aftermath of the storm seems never-ending. …
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When Oceanside resident Raymond Pagano got a call from Laura Munafo, the Nassau County representative for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Community Reconstruction Zones program, Pagano was first surprised, and …
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By Howard Schwach
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8/7/13
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, at the request of the State of New York, has extended its Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program, which allows eligible Hurricane Sandy survivors …
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