A broken license plate light led police to finding a loaded Ruger handgun, crack and marijuana after a car stop near the Five Towns Shopping Center on Rockaway Boulevard in Woodmere after midnight on Dec. 10.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/10/21
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As the aroma of popcorn wafted across a portion of the Five Towns Community Center gymnasium in Lawrence on Nov. 13, roughly 300 people came through the doors about 10 at time to choose from a variety of items at the Winter Giveaway sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America and supplemented by Gammy’s Pantry, the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent and Affinity Health Plan.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/18/21
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After all the fire trucks, firefighters and other emergency equipment that responded to the Nov. 1, 2020 explosion and fire that wrecked three Meadowmere Park homes that early Sunday morning, the residents had to rebuild.
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By Lisa Margaria
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11/12/21
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A family-owned and fun-oriented local business that has operated on the same state-owned site for 43 years is once again facing a substantial rent increase that threatens its survival.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/12/21
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A Queens resident who allegedly stole merchandise from Burlington Coat Factory in North Lawrence on Nov. 3 that was stuffed into two duffel bags and resisted arrest was subdued by police after a brief altercation, Nassau County police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/4/21
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A Queens man who struck a vehicle from behind in Inwood was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, which is known as Leandra’s Law, and other violations on Oct. 8, according to police.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/9/21
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In an effort to reduce gridlock in a heavily trafficked area and help emergency responders, Nassau County’s Department of Public Works painted a grid box at the intersection of East Avenue by Meadowmere Park and Rockaway Turnpike.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/24/21
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I left my house the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to report to work as the store manager of Sports Authority on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens. As I pulled up to my store the second plane, United Airlines flight 175, crashed into the World Trade Center’s south tower.
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By Frank Parise
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9/9/21
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Two Nassau County legislators who wrote an op-ed in the Herald last month, proposing that a bypass be built to reduce traffic on the Nassau Expressway, stumped for their solution at a July 15 news conference in front of the Five Towns Shopping Center, where Rockaway Boulevard, in Queens, meets Rockaway Turnpike, in Nassau County.
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By Daniel Robertson
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7/15/21
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Trinity Place is a short, quiet street off Broadway in Hewlett that includes nine houses, the Fairfield Tudor apartment building and the parking lot of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/2/21
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