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“This was the graveyard of the town,” Thomas Saltzman murmured, gesturing toward the carefully kept shelves of records that line the walls of the Town of Hempstead Archives. “This was every …
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By John Maher
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4/1/14
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A Queens man was arrested by Nassau County police on Feb. 28 and charged with stealing more than 35 catalytic converters from vehicles throughout Nassau County in a span of eight months — nine last week alone, from vans leased by an AHRC Nassau facility in East Meadow.
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By David Weingrad
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3/5/14
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The Cubs’ Cave (a.k.a. the back cafeteria) at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick was loud and messy last Friday –– but it was all for a good cause.
With assembly-line efficiency, Levy-Lakeside sixth-graders made more than 2,000 sandwiches for the homeless on Jan. 31. The donation, neatly packaged in big cardboard boxes, was shipped to the River Fund Shelter in Richmond Hill, Queens, said Sue Molloy, the sixth-grade teacher who annually organizes the sandwich-making exercise.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/4/14
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Valley Stream South High School was visited by students, teachers, alumni and staff members for the annual Homecoming festival last Saturday to celebrate the South Falcons’ second-to-last home football game of the season.
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By Erica Galluscio
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10/30/13
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Merokean Stanley Barkan, center, recently received the Shabdaguchha International Poetry Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award “for his outstanding contribution to poetry and publishing poets from around the world.” The ceremony took place in August at the International Poetry Festival at Queens Central Public Library in Jamaica.
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9/20/13
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Exhibits and more...
After ModernisM 2013: ‘AM’A showcase of work by five contemporary artists. The exhibit features Nina Chanel Abney, Justin Craun, Wendell Gladstone, Erik Parks and …
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9/11/13
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Stepping off the train at the Forest Hills stop of the Long Island Railroad around 5 p.m. on Aug. 28, it did not take long to sense the buzz surrounding the Queens neighborhood, with the anticipation of Mumford & Sons appearing on stage at the seldom-used West Side Tennis Club in a few short hours.
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By David Weingrad
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9/3/13
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What’s old has become new again. On Aug. 28, more than 17,000 people will fill the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens to see Mumford and Sons, the first major event the venue has hosted in more than 25 years.
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By David Weingrad
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8/23/13
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The face of corruption has once again reared its ugly head in New York state politics. At this stage in the game, no one should be surprised.
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4/11/13
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Once upon a time there was a 12-year-old fro m the Bronx who wanted to make her mark in the literary world by writing an original fairy tale. However, there are no glass slippers, seven dwarfs or evil witches in the real-life story of author Patricia Gordon’s writing experience, but her latest book “The Queen of Broken Hearts” pays homage to the world’s most beloved fairy tales with a unique twist of its own.
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By Brian Croce
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1/17/13
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