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Five Towns talent show raises $25K
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A dozen talented Five Towns residents performed at the SULAM-LI-sponsored fundraiser talent show, “The Five Towns Got Talent,” at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst on March 9.
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3/13/13
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Just days after city officials held a meeting with representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to discuss a plan to protect the barrier island from future storms like Hurricane Sandy, U.S. …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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3/13/13
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Some help for homeowners desperately waiting for insurance money to rebuild their homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy will be available next week, after New York State's Department of Financial …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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3/1/13
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Entertaining to pump up the fund
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Approximately 220 people paid $65 per ticket for the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools Endowment Fund comedy night fundraiser at the Bridgeview Yacht Club in Island Park on Feb. 22.
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2/27/13
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Sharing their creativity with the community
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Approximately 25 performers sang songs that they wrote or admire, shared poetry and their original prose during Vintage Open Mic Night held at Woodmere Middle School on Feb. 22.
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2/27/13
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Honoring a district family, raising trip money
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The Mazzitelli family, of Atlantic Beach, were honored at the inaugural Lawrence School District Music Parent Organization fundraiser dinner at the Imperial Room in Inwood on Feb. 21.
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2/27/13
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Celebrating Black History in the Five Towns
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The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. members Evelyn Jackson and Annie Reyes spearheaded a night of commemorating Black History at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on Feb. 21.
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2/27/13
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Children helping children at Purim
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Children from Temple Hillel’s youth group and religious school hosted a Purim carnival on Feb. 22 at the North Woodmere synagogue for a few families from Island Park and Temple Emanuel in Long Beach who were victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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2/27/13
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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.
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2/26/13
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Like no other storm since the “Long Island Express” of 1938, Hurricane Sandy ripped apart Long Island’s South Shore, lifting docks off their moorings and depositing them miles away, tearing hot tubs from backyard decks and dumping them in the canals that line the coast, and sending boats big and small hurtling out to sea.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/13
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