Most people don’t bike 343 miles in an entire lifetime. East Meadow resident Greg Gatto plans on doing that in just five days.
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Fran Berkman
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9/8/11
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Andree Marshall, an Island Park resident, worked at the World Trade Center for years before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
An employee of Merrill Lynch, she was in the building on Feb. 26, …
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Alex Costello
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9/7/11
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Kevin Colbert would have celebrated his 35th birthday last week. He might have spent it the way he had most birthdays — going out to a nice restaurant for dinner with his mother and three …
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By Lee Landor
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8/31/11
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It’s been nearly 10 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the nation, and it’s difficult for adults — especially here on the South Shore of Nassau County, where so many of the victims of 9/11 left from that beautiful Tuesday morning in 2011, never to return — to cope with the memories, grief and anxieties that come with this 10th anniversary. However, many children and young adults are also profoundly affected and less capable of dealing with psychological trauma.
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By Jackie Nash
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8/30/11
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Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murray and Deputy Mayor Nancy Howard were on hand as Marianela Jordan, far right above, of the governor’s office arrived at the Recreation Center on Tuesday to supervise the installation of museum-quality artifacts, and the stories behind them, that are part of New York Remembers, a statewide recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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8/24/11
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Stephen Siller’s journey ended at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, after he heroically ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in full firefighter’s gear. He gave his life to save others.
But his difficult path had begun nearly 25 years earlier.
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Aaron Axelson
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8/24/11
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Two World Trade Center steel beams donated to Lynbrook by the New York Port Authority will be erected on Aug. 10, according to Deputy Mayor Alan Beach. The beams are expected to arrive sometime …
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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8/7/11
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In preparation for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001World Trade Center attacks, workers in Lynbrook have begun construction on two steel beams from the twin towers that were donated to the village by the New York Port Authority. The steel will be unveiled at the village’s Sept. 11 memorial behind Village Hall.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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8/3/11
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Late in the night on May 1, President Barack Obama announced that, after nearly 10 years of searching, the United States had located and killed Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist …
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Alex Costello
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5/4/11
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On Sunday night, the phone rang at the Palmer house in Valley Stream. It was a family member, telling Debbie and Dana Palmer to turn on the news. They did, and for 45 minutes they sat in front of the television, learning that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had been killed.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/4/11
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