After the Lawrence School District laid off and furloughed employees as of April 15, a firestorm of anger followed led by the Lawrence Teachers Association and Teamsters Local 237, the union that represents the aides, assistants, cleaners, monitors and nurses who are no longer working.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/28/20
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The Marion & Aaron Gural JCC has extended the shutdown of its facilities in Cedarhurst and Lawrence at least through April 30, officials stated in an emailed letter on April 14.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/15/20
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Being proactive instead of reactive to the quickly spreading Covid-19 pandemic, Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv, an Orthodox Jewish school in Lawrence, is creating an ad hoc hospital in its CedarLawn Avenue building.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/3/20
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Lawrence native Harvey Jay Sheff was known as a mensch, a Yiddish word that encapsulates a person’s capacity for being all the things we admire: smart, athletic, considerate and polite.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/1/20
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Updated March 29 at 11 a.m.
With rubber gloves on her hands and a facemask wrapped around her nose and mouth, Inwood resident Sasha Young handed out bleach, dish detergent and muffins to Five Towns residents, along with a diced pineapple snack cup, if they came with children, at the Community Center on Lawrence Avenue in Lawrence on March 27.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/28/20
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With the number of coronavirus cases in Nassau County increasing, Five Towns business owners and organizations are trying to maintain a positive outlook while dealing with unavoidable declines in revenue.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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3/18/20
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A Lawrence High teacher is self- quarantining at home after being exposed to a person — not from the school district — that was diagnosed with COVIV-19 coronavirus. According to Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen, the teacher is not showing any symptoms.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/11/20
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An Atlantic Beach resident who formerly taught English at The Brandeis School in Lawrence has been accused of sexually abusing a student for five years beginning when he was just 13, according to a court petition filed on Feb. 24.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/26/20
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After 10 years in private practice as a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, Deborah Rothman, DACM, decided to expand on her passion for alternative healing . . .
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By Teri Ann Loeser
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2/7/20
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After Cedarhurst resident Dovid Kanarfogel’s wife, Dr. Hindi Krinsky, died last year, he decided to honor her memory, with the help of his friend Leslie Gang, by putting books in the hands of children.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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12/26/19
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