Veolia Transportation Inc. recently signed a contract to take over operation of Long Island Bus, run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Nassau County Attorney’s Office is reviewing the agreement before it is submitted to the county Legislature for a vote, but members of New York Public Interest Research Group Fund want the details now
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Deirdre Krasula
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10/31/11
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Coloki, Inc., a nonprofit group set up by Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy to run the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer that aids impoverished day laborers, will host a benefit fundraiser at Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/10/11
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On a recent sunny Thursday, Wilbur Sanchez spoke in slow, deliberate English as he pointed out vegetables amid the greenery fanning out around him. Sanchez noted the peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers hanging from tall plants in a red box before him. In a second box to his right were chives, oregano and lettuce. In the middle of the garden, watermelon vines looped in all directions. At the back, cornstalks popped out above still more pepper plants.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/3/11
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Nassau County has selected a private company to take over operation of the Long Island Bus System next year.
County Executive Edward Mangano announced last week that the RFP panel formed last year …
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By David Weingrad
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6/16/11
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Traveling down a long, foggy, icy Long Island road in the dead of winter to see “Jekyll & Hyde The Musical” seemed like an appropriate precursor for what was to come.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/9/11
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Take a multiracial, multiethnic diverse cast of professional singers and actors, and pair them with SUNY Old Westbury students who are learning theater technology and backstage work, throw in a story about good vs. evil, and you have just a twinkle of an idea of the experience called “Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical.”
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Mary Malloy
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11/3/10
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How easily we forget that Long Island was settled by Dutch immigrants in the mid-1600s and by the English in the 1700s. Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants arrived in abundance in the early 1900s.
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9/30/10
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Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg slammed the website Ultrinsic Motivator, Inc. during a Sept. 8 news conference for offering college students the chance "to wager" on their own grades.
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David Weingrad
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9/8/10
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From bone-buckets to beverage-filled mason jars, Longhorns Saloon & Barbeque is the type of place where one can kick back and just dig in. Be it wings, brisket or ribs so tender they fall off the bone, you won't go home hungry and will probably leave with a bundle. Scribbling on the wall like, "It's no disgrace to get sauce on your face," says it clearly.
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Terry Biener
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5/14/10
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Art Rosenthal, executive director of the Confide Inc. drug treatment center in Rockville Centre, described childhood these days as a dark tunnel. What a depressing metaphor, I thought, but I couldn’t argue with its accuracy.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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