Fourth-graders at Willow Road School learned some new moves this year through a ballroom dancing program. It is the second year the program has been held in the District 13 school.
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Andrew Hackmack
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4/28/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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As incidents of bullying and cyber-bullying gain notoriety nationwide, parents close to home start to look at their childrens’ schools to see how they stack up.
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Andrew Hackmack and Matt Hampton
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4/14/10
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Off to see the Wizard, and Annie, and Mary
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Students at Willow Road School performed scenes from a trio of popular plays in the March 25 production of “Broadway Comes to Willow.”
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4/7/10
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Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced last week that a retired New York City police officer was given five years in prison for the robbery of three Nassau County banks in 2008.
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by Matthew Hampton
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4/7/10
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Students from all five Sewanhaka Central High School district schools came together on Feb. 25, in the spirit of competition.
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Matthew Hampton
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3/2/10
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently completed audits of New York’s 733 public school districts and BOCES. The audits were part of a series of legislation following a scandal in the Roslyn School District in which administrators embezzled $11 million.
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2/25/10
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Carole Anne Gravert loves to learn about space. The Willow Road School librarian visited NASA in 2000 and spent six weeks at the Langley Air Force Base in Virginia through the Aerospace Educators Workshop.
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Andrew Hackmack
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2/24/10
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Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that Sean Gluck, a serial purse-snatcher with two prior theft convictions, has pleaded guilty to burglary and grand larceny charges after going on his third crime spree in as many years. Gluck will receive three to six years in prison in exchange for his plea.
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1/20/10
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Throughout the long, at times agonizing health reform debate, conservatives and insurance-industry lobbyists have argued that we don’t need a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
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Scott Brinton
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11/26/09
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