Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York.
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8/5/10
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At the Island Park Board of Education meeting June 30, Richard Schurin, who lost the district's school board election on May 18 to Richie Hayes by just 10 votes, presented the board with what …
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Alex Costello
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7/14/10
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After over four decades of service to the Island Park School District, Nick DeSibio, the district’s counsel, announced his decision to retire at the last Board of Education meeting on June 30.
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Alex Costello
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7/14/10
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As Oceanside students are saying their last goodbyes to school for the year, Assistant Superintendent Ilene Brandon is saying goodbye to Oceanside for good.
After 11 years in the district, …
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Alex Costello
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6/30/10
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Thirty-eight years after Joe Corea began his four-decade career as Calhoun High School's head baseball coach, he can still rattle off most of the names on his starting lineup from his very first year -–– 1972.
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Scott Brinton
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6/9/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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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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At a meeting on April 12, the Island Park School District unveiled the revenue side of its budget, which includes a 2.83 percent increase in the district’s tax levy.
The levy, increasing from …
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Alex Costello
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4/21/10
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Oceanside Middle School students put on a rousing show for friends and family March 23. Oceanside’s Got Talent was also a fundraising event to help raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
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4/7/10
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Oceanside High School graduate Eric Ascher is taking his community-minded spirit to college. Now in his third year at Stony Brook University, Ascher is spearheading a drive to collect personal …
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Annmarie Fertoli
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3/30/10
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