“Everyone has been feeling very helpless about the horrible crisis unfolding every day with the devastating oil spill,” said the school’s reading teacher, Lorraine Donlon. “Our older students, who follow the nightly news and read the newspaper, have expressed grief over the death of wild life.”
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Mary Malloy
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6/30/10
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Skyler Kessler, left, of East Rockaway, met recording artist Aaron Fresh at I met him at 92.3 Now's One Night Stand. Aaron Hinton-Marshall, better known by his stage name Aaron Fresh is a Trinidadian American recording artist. He is signed to Ncredible, and dually to Island Def Jam, and his debut album is set to be released this summer.
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Mary Malloy
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6/24/10
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"I met Al Franken at the Book Revue in Huntington when he was doing a book signing a few years ago," said Lynbrook resident Vicki Alspector. She and her husband, Rubin, met Colin Powell in Miami when he was the keynote speaker at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation Dinner.
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Mary Malloy
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6/24/10
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East Rockaway village board member Francis Lenahan has had a change of heart about the proposed rezoning of the industrial district
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Mary Malloy
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6/16/10
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In true red, white and blue fashion, Lynbrook resident and businessman Francis X. Becker Jr., Nassau County’s 6th District legislator, officially announced his run for the congressional seat in the 4th District now held by Democrat Carolyn McCarthy.
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Mary Malloy
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6/16/10
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The Moving Wall will be available for viewing 24 hours a day, starting on June 10 and ending on June 13 in Greis Veterans Memorial Park in Lynbrook.Services will be held nightly at 7 p.m., followed by taps
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Mary Malloy
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6/10/10
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Former Lynbrook resident Jodie Arnold — with help from her granddaughter, Caitlin Arnold — has written an engaging, funny and charming children’s book titled “Growing Up Hamburger.” The idea for the memoir came to Arnold, who is in her 80s, as she was telling bedtime stories to her granddaughter, Caitlin.
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by Mary Malloy
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6/10/10
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East Rockaway School District officials have been able to shave $113,000 from their original proposed budget of $33, 450, 435 that was voted down by residents on May 18 with a vote of 624-597.
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Mary Malloy
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6/2/10
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The Lynbrook Community hosted its fourth annual Relay For Life on Saturday, May 22 at the track of Lynbrook South Middle School on Union Avenue, from 5 p.m. until midnight. The event is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
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Mary Malloy
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5/27/10
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A second public meeting was held on May 12 regarding the village’s proposal to rezone the industrial area in East Rockaway (see box for more details) — this time in a larger venue, the East Rockaway High School auditorium, to accomodate residents who wanted to voice their concerns — or their support.
The first meeting, held on April 23 at Rocco’s Catering Hall, was filled to capacity and the village had to turn away residents who waited on the block-long line. The first meeting, as the second, lasted three hours.
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Mary Malloy
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5/20/10
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