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A family-owned and fun-oriented local business that has operated on the same state-owned site for 43 years is once again facing a substantial rent increase that threatens its survival.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/12/21
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Two years after its founding, the Saving Lives Five Towns Drug and Alcohol Coalition is launching a new campaign to “Lock, Inventory, Dispose” of prescription medications in an effort to reduce access to drugs.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/7/21
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Ari and Ruth Jungreis’s spacious Lawrence backyard is a long way from the Israel Defense Forces bases strategically positioned across the Jewish state, but no less connected: The Friends of the IDF held a fundraising barbecue in the Five Towns on Sept. 15, and raised more than $500,000.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/23/21
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Thirteen rabbis from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway each say a few words meant to encourage members of their synagogues and the entire community to get vaccinated now. While each rabbi speaks individually, they are really speaking with one voice.
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By Ed Weintrob
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9/2/21
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The shortage of school bus drivers in New York state that began nearly four years ago and that now stretches across the country has continued throughout, and been deepened by, the coronavirus pandemic. Five Towns school districts are concerned, and bus companies are aggressively recruiting drivers.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/26/21
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Three residents who have lived in Inwood for a collective 59 years have joined forces to organize the eighth annual celebration of the Town of Hempstead hamlet. This year the event is dedicated to a longtime advocate of the community that was once known as Near Rockaway and Westerville.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/11/21
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The Gift of Life Marrow Registry will conduct bone marrow testing in a quest to find a donor to help a Cedarhurst resident who has chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, a cancer that begins blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and invades the blood. It affects mainly older adults.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/8/21
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Leaving the Five Towns Shopping Center from the west exit on a recent Friday morning required waiting through two traffic signal cycles and cutting off a pickup truck to avoid being hit by vehicles headed to Queens, as traffic on the south side of Rockaway Boulevard, on its way to the Five Towns, obstructed the intersection.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/1/21
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Nearly six months after the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered, inoculation against the virus continues to be controversial, as misinformation and hesitancy remain challenges and as vaccine opponents continue to rail against the shots.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/9/21
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Talya Lippman, a freshman at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, was one of the first young people who entered the gym at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s Hirt Family Campus in Woodmere last Sunday. Lippman sat demurely on a folding chair, waiting to receive her first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Covid-19 virus.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/19/21
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