There was no shortage of thrilling finishes and heartbreak on Nassau County high school athletic fields this spring, capped by a nearly 4-hourlong Long Island Class A softball championship game …
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/21/23
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An 8-and-under baseball team with Merrick Mayhem, a travel baseball and softball organization, rallied behind a team member’s family last Saturday to raise money for and awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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By Jordan Vallone
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6/18/23
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If there’s one thing that Christina Mathieson-Segura wants women with a recent cancer diagnosis to know, it’s that “I’m OK, and you’ll be OK too.”
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By Jordan Vallone
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6/18/23
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It all started with a simple question: Can we have a garden like this?
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By Michael Malaszczyk
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6/18/23
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Congregation Ohav Shalom in Merrick recently hosted its end of year celebration, as well as a Hebrew School open house for prospective students.
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By Jordan Vallone
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6/18/23
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Throughout a day full of fanfare, pomp and circumstance, the Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue Middle Schools’ Class of 2023 celebrated their moving up on June 9 at four indoor ceremonies.
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6/18/23
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“History is not the past, but a map of the past,” historian Henry Glassie once said, “drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveler.”
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6/15/23
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I wrote my heart out after 9/11, scribbled my way through blackouts, epic blizzards, hurricanes and, for three years, the pandemic.
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6/15/23
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Serving as a police officer for 22 years, I saw firsthand the effectiveness of the “broken windows” model of policing.
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By Christopher Carini
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6/15/23
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I often imagine the thoughts and experiences of enslaved Black people in America. It is a dark place, but it is a place that keeps me in gratitude and motion every day.
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By Taylor Darling
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6/15/23
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