Giving toys to Five Towns children in need is a year round project, according to Christopher McGrath, former president of Peninsula Kiwanis Club.
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By Parker Schug
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3/22/24
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With the return of school will come the return of school buses, and finding and hiring enough drivers will be a challenge for many bus companies. The Five Towns-based Independent Coach Corp. is among the companies looking for employees.
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By Parker Schug
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8/27/23
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Far Rockaway High School alumnus and Woodmere resident Josephine Fusco died on Oct. 21, from kidney disease. She was 88.
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By Hernesto Galdamez
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11/10/22
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Dedicated to family, friends, his business and helping people, organizations and institutions, Nicholas J. “Kayo” Fabrizio was known as the quiet guy behind the scenes, never one to toot his own horn. Fabrizio, a longtime Five Towns resident, died on Sept. 21. He was 90.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/30/21
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A problem that arose in late summer has continued to vex a number of Lawrence School District residents as winter nears. Inwood community members who live near the Harris Avenue field, by the Number Four School, remain angry that the recreational area was torn up by roughly 60 Seth Transportation school buses that were parked on the field for more than two months beginning in late August.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/9/20
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A 79-year-old relationship between the Independent Coach Corporation and the Lawrence School District appears to have been severed because of a financial dispute as the Inwood-based bus company declined to renew its yearly contract with the school district.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/14/20
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Shakeups in diverse industries continue through the coronavirus pandemic, and with schools being shut down since mid-March transportation companies such as Inwood-based Independent Coach Corporation are feeling the pinch.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/30/20
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A May 17 incident where one child was taken off a school bus by her mother and another girl latched on to that parent because she was scared, has resulted in the firing of an Independent Coach Company driver and parents asking why aren’t there matrons on the buses, especially with the youngest children being transported in the Lawrence School District.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/23/18
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New York State mandates the distances that school districts must provide transportation to students, but it is left to the districts to establish the bus routes, the pick-up points and how many children are a bus and how many stops are made.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/30/16
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Booklice was discovered on an Independent Coach bus Thursday morning as it took students to Lawrence Middle School.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/17/14
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