Long Island is not necessarily known as a breeding ground for great baseball players. Despite being the birthplace of big-name major leaguers, both old and new, such as Craig Biggio and Billy Koch, Long Island continues to produce far more lacrosse players than baseball stars.
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By James Fitz Gerald
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8/24/11
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Last Thursday, upward of 1,500 people jammed St. Patrick’s Cathedral to express a fond goodbye to the late Gov. Hugh L. Carey. The opinion of the assembled crowd was that it was a great goodbye …
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By Jerry Kremer
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8/18/11
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Sewanhaka Memorial High School graduate Victoria Casso, of Elmont, was recently selected to receive The Race For Education’s Olivia M. Saylor Scholarship, formerly known as the Fleet Indian Scholarship.
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By Jackie Nash
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6/28/11
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The Sewanhaka Central High School budget passed this evening, with 4,628 votes in support of the budget, and 3,028 votes against it. This year's turnout — 7,656 voters — was slightly lower than last year's, when nearly 10,000 residents came to the polls to vote for the 2010-11 budget.
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By Jackie Nash
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5/17/11
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A bomb threat was left on the voice-mail system of a member of the H. Frank Carey High School administration on April 27 around 11:10 p.m. The threat was made after the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting that night.
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By Jackie Nash
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5/3/11
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A bomb threat was left on the voice-mail system of an administrative member of the H. Frank Carey High School on April 27, around 11:10 p.m. The threat was made following the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, which began at 8 p.m.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/29/11
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For the second time in the past two months, parents came to the microphone at the Sewanhaka High School District’s Board of Education meeting to publicly disparage the district’s English as a Second Language program. The program is currently housed in only one school within the five-school district — the H. Frank Carey High School — and some parents within the district believe it has created an unsafe environment at Carey.
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By Jackie Nash
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3/29/11
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At the Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 15, some parents expressed concerns about the district’s English as a Second Language program. The concerns focused on the fact that the program is only held at the H. Frank Carey High School, although there are four other schools in the district.
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By Jackie Nash
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2/22/11
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Coming off its highest-scoring performance of the season, Valley Stream Central was on the ropes for much of its Conference AA-III girls’ basketball matchup against winless Carey on Jan. 18.
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By TONY BELLISSIMO
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1/26/11
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For some unexplained reason, success in politics is measured by what happens in the first 100 days of a politician’s time in office. For Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, his success or progress will be held to the same standard, however unrealistic it may be.
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Jerry Kremer
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12/2/10
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