Five years after Nassau County ceded the Rock Hall Road land to Lawrence and more than 13 years after the villages of Cedarhurst and Lawrence agreed to a county plan to the send the villages’ …
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/25/22
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Michael Hinman is the new executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Stuart Richner, the CEO of Richner Communications Inc., and publisher of the newspaper group, made the announcement last week. Hinman succeeds Scott Brinton, who had led the editorial department since 2016.
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3/12/22
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For about a third of the past 1,000 years, 66 percent of the Jewish population spoke Yiddish, yet the “mama lushen” — the mother tongue of Jews — appeared consigned to the dustbin of history, …
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/5/19
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What happened to me on the second to last Tuesday in October was not as serious as a heart attack but having a wife and two children who I love dearly I’m glad it was not.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/2/18
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As Vice President Mike Pence’s post-national anthem exit from last Sunday’s NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts made abundantly clear . . .
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10/13/17
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In 2003, voters in the Lawrence School District overwhelmingly rejected a proposed $85.3 million budget with a 4.9 percent tax increase. In the subsequent 14 years, especially the past decade, Lawrence taxpayers have strongly supported the fiscal plans put together by district officials.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/22/17
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It has been more than four months since I addressed my family’s situation due to Hurricane Sandy.
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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4/3/13
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My family and I were in The Home Depot parking lot on the third Saturday of our Diaspora trying to move our Allstate claim along, when I realized we were barely 10 minutes from our house and we couldn’t go home.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/28/12
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There were no services and few options for people with disabilities in 1941, when Woodmere resident Nina Eaton’s son Leonard was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after his birth. But she …
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Jeff Bessen
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4/19/12
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