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I came home from work one day last week, weary and a bit overwhelmed from trying to tell the hundreds of local stories that came out of Hurricane Sandy, but happy that I was lucky enough to have my …
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By Mary Malloy
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11/14/12
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Despite the hardships being endured by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, followed by a nor’easter, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) had more than 350 guests at its high school’s open house on Nov. 11.
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11/14/12
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After being closed for more than two weeks due to Hurricane Sandy, which included Election Day and Veterans Day, the Lawrence School District reopened its schools on Tuesday.
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By Jeff Bessen and Ann E. Friedman
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11/14/12
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The devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused to residents on Cheshire Road and the surrounding streets in Inwood is still apparent more than two weeks later as many remain busy cleaning out their homes, salvaging what they can and some are still without power.
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By Ann Friedman
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11/14/12
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Boys sorted the heated socks, teenage girls played and colored with younger children, the women cooked food and brought it out to families, men moved generators on dollies, and volunteers readied to go out on another run delivering needed items to distressed community members as snow from a nor’easter fell on Nov. 7.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/14/12
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After seeing many people in the community with homes ruined and lives turned upside down in the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, Five Towns Community Chest Board President Steven Spiro said the organization was spurred into action.
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By Ann Friedman
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11/14/12
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The fire chief was at the grill, cooking a larger-than-usual portion of scrambled eggs; children who should have been in school weren’t; and there was enough food collected in an office to stock a supermarket’s shelves.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/14/12
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In a quiet corner of the main gymnasium at Nassau Community College’s athletic center in Garden City, where basketball games and wrestling matches are normally held, Red Cross volunteers have fashioned a small, makeshift daycare center out of room dividers, pinning up newsprint where children can draw pictures in crayon. There are books for reading as well, but little else.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/14/12
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There comes a moment in a monster hurricane such as Sandy when you question why you live on Long Island, this 118-mile-long spit of glacial debris deposited in the Atlantic Ocean from the mainland 20,000 years ago.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/13/12
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Part one in a series on how South Shore residents are coping in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. This week we begin in Bellmore-Merrick. In subsequent weeks we plan to spotlight recovery efforts in other communities.
John Giammarino’s one-level house stood near the intersection of Bellmore Avenue and Clubhouse Road for 30 years. But only three years after the south Bellmore resident began renting the waterfront home, his landlord sent crews to rip out what was left of the walls.
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/13/12
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