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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At the W.T. Clarke High School graduation, which will take place on the school’s football field on June 23, seniors Daniel Wang and Alexander Evangelatos will deliver speeches in front of their peers, families and teachers. In October, the pair were named the top two in their class — Wang as valedictorian and Evangelatos as salutatorian.
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A pink banner hung inside Verdi’s Banquet Hall in Westbury on May 30, where more than 300 people from Salisbury, East Meadow and across the country gathered in support of Ellen Palmer. The banner read simply, “Here for Ellen.”
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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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Young artists at Woodland Middle School recently completed their latest masterpiece, a mural depicting the American Theater Dance Workshop in New Hyde Park.
The mural is a painting of ballet dancer Brooke Leventhal, a Woodland student, while surrounded on stage by fellow dancers and a large audience. The mural was drawn by roughly 20 students in Dr. John Healy’s art class.
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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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Carmine Cella served in the United States Air Force from 1943 to 1946, and was stationed in Saipan and the Tinian during World War II, which are part of U.S.’s Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean.
Cella, now 91, said he couldn’t help but notice a huge commotion while deployed in Tinian. “I knew something was going on over there,” he said. “I didn’t know what it was.”
He later learned he was on the same island as the atomic bombs, which would soon be launched on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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