The Diocese of Rockville Centre has sold its Pastoral Center, at Sunrise Highway and North Park Avenue in the heart of downtown Rockville Centre, for $5.2 million, church officials announced …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/27/21
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I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19.
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By Lawrence E. Eisenstein
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2/25/21
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The coronavirus pandemic reached Long Island a year ago next week, at first bringing a handful of cases before it dug in and exploded, wreaking havoc.
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2/25/21
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It happened as, I assume, many of these things do: It was a busy day, I was working at home, and the cellphone rang.
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By James Bernstein
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2/11/21
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The events at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and the exhortations by some elected officials leading up to them got me to thinking about civic responsibility and our nation’s future.
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By Robert Scott
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1/28/21
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It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school. Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers . . .
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1/7/21
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Let’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by . . .
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1/7/21
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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords stood outside the Safeway supermarket northwest of Tuscon, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011, chatting with constituents about Medicare reimbursements, …
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By Scott Brinton
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12/14/20
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When I first came to the Herald in January to cover Long Beach, I took in what most others see — the fine beaches, the beautiful boardwalk, the tony restaurants on Park Avenue and the cool, funky bars on the West End. But the coronavirus peeled back the layers fast . . .
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By James Bernstein
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12/10/20
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Consider the number 675,000 for a moment. That’s the number of people in the United States who died during the flu pandemic of 1918-19. Could the U.S. be headed for such widespread death again?
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10/22/20
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