High school seniors all over the Herald’s coverage area are graduating. Tassels are moved, mortarboards are launched into the air and tears are shed by fellow grads, teachers, friends and relatives.
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6/28/12
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Though they will attend either West Hempstead or Long Beach high schools, the Island Park school district wanted its children to know that it will always be their home district.
The district held …
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6/28/12
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As 1984 came to a close, it turned out that George Orwell’s Big Brother had not taken over the nation.
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6/21/12
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Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands.
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4/5/12
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Oceanside High School conferred degrees on the 502 graduates of the class of 2011 at the school’s 108th commencement ceremonies on June 24.
The graduation was held in the school’s …
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Alex Costello
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6/29/11
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Seventy-four eighth grade students from the Island Park Lincoln Orens Middle School donned blue graduation attire and sat onstage in the school’s auditorium — ready and anxious to accept their …
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Tom Steinert
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6/29/11
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Alongi, AlexaMolloy College
Amendolia, IsabelNassau Community College
Anderson, IbanCareer Training
Beksinski, ReynaSouthern Vermont College
Berotti, WilliamMolloy College
Biscardi, …
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6/29/11
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Euli C. Abreu
Colleen Acquafredda
Kathleen Acquafredda
Amanda R. Agarenzo
Thomas William Agostino
Miguel A. Aguirre-Amaya
Kayla Benedetta Akkaya
Austin D. Akner
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6/29/11
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As has been the case for decades, there are more career opportunities for those with college degrees than those without. The Great Recession of 2007-09 proved that point. While the unemployment rate for those without university degrees soared into the double digits, it remained below 5 percent — full employment — for those with a college education, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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6/23/11
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Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students from Professor Scott Brinton’s Current Issues in Science Reporting class recently participated in and are reporting on an Envirothon that took place in the woodlands around the Meadowbrook Parkway in North Merrick, Roosevelt and Freeport on April 30. Brinton, of Merrick, is a senior editor and op-ed columnist with Herald Community Newspapers. The Nassau County Unprotected Woodlands Taskforce, headed by county Legislators David Denenberg and Norma Gonsalves, organized the event.
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5/11/11
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