When Alyse Spinner of the Jacob’s Light Foundation called Rockville Centre resident Liz Boylan with a last minute request for Christmas items for veterans at the Northport VA Hospital, Boylan knew exactly where to turn for help: to her friends and neighbors in the community.
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1/26/11
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Bring the family for a peak at Long Island's seal population at a seal cruise out of Freeport. For those who prefer to stay inside, Ayn Rand's courtroom drama is now on the Hofstra stage and the stars of "Rent" bring their concert act to the area.
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1/12/11
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On Dec. 28, Nassau Coliseum was being used for something other than sports games and concerts: Island Harvest, Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization, was shipping out its record-high 8 …
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Alex Costello
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1/5/11
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More than 300 friends and supporters attended the annual dinner dance benefitting the Association for Children with Down Syndrome (ACDS) on Oct. 30 at the Garden City Hotel. The evening honored three generations of the Powderly family and their Special Care Foundation which is the largest fundraiser in ACDS history.
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11/17/10
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As they have for the last two years, the students of St. Agnes Cathedral Elementary School have again written letters to U.S. troops serving overseas — just in time for Thanksgiving.
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Judy Rattner
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11/10/10
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It would have been Gus Sellitto’s 54th birthday, and he would have been happy and proud of his family.
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10/6/10
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There's something for everyone in Rockville Centre this weekend. Village residents who want to get out and enjoy the fall-like weather predicted by forecasters for Saturday and Sunday have a number …
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Judy Rattner
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10/1/10
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How easily we forget that Long Island was settled by Dutch immigrants in the mid-1600s and by the English in the 1700s. Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants arrived in abundance in the early 1900s.
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9/30/10
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The Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields performs at Oceanside High School on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m.
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9/23/10
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Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy swung by the cement-gray trailer at the east end of Bennington Avenue in Freeport in November 2008.
“The place was packed,” recalled O’Shaughnessy of the facility, squeezed between a window factory and a truck yard, which gives immigrant day laborers a safe place to wait for landscapers and contractors to pick them up for jobs.
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Scott Brinton
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9/21/10
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