Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman made a prescient comment at a community meeting at Lawrence Woodmere Academy on Monday, saying that the developers who now own the Woodmere Club are known for being litigious.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/9/18
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The Town of Hempstead is seeking to amend its zoning ordiance to protect large tracts of open land after the Woodmere Club was sold to two developers last year, causing an uproar among neighbors who said they worried what will become of the property.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/2/18
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Residents of the Five Towns and surrounding South Shore communities have been known to travel to Brooklyn and Queens for affordable pricing on healthy kosher groceries.
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By Teri Ann Loeser
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11/24/17
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Hurricane Harvey slammed into the southeastern Texas coast two Fridays ago as a Category 4 storm, lashing homes and businesses with 130-mile-per-hour winds and . . .
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9/7/17
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Sign up for the Kiwanis Marty Mongoni golf outing
Take off from work on Monday, July 17 and play golf for the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Foundation at the Tam O’Shanter Club.
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6/1/17
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Familiarity with the roads around Southeast Queens and the Five Towns most likely helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo understand why State Sen. Todd Kaminsky kept bringing up repairing the Nassau Expressway every time the Long Beach Democrat saw the governor.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/26/17
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The streets of West Hempstead seem like an unlikely birthplace of a sports team that was in first place in the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association’s Division II last week. But it was just part of growing up for Jesse Gordon, Avi Marguiles and Moshe Genuth — West Hempstead residents who attend Yeshiva University and play on its squad, the Maccabees — the only all-Jewish team in their collegiate roller hockey league.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/21/17
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Nonprofit social-service agencies like the Five Towns Community Center were facing steep funding cuts by Nassau County as late as Monday night.
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By Erik Hawkins and Mary Malloy
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12/7/16
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Hofstra University student actors give new life to the cult rock musical spoof.
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10/19/16
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As rumors continue to swirl about the future of the Woodmere Club, residents of Meadow Drive, near the golf course’s main entrance and first hole, are leery about what might become of their bucolic neighborhood.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/16
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