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Led by Rockville Centre librarian Ellen Berman, who facilitates a book club at the Sandel Senior Center, a number of the center’s members traveled to Molloy College on Oct. 5 to meet David Oliver Relin, who, with Greg Mortensen, wrote the best seller “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time.”
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10/13/10
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On Sept. 22, the Rockville Centre Library dedicated the Elaine and Irving Gelston Jr. Art Book Collection.
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10/13/10
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The Sandel Senior Center Book Club celebrated its 10-year anniversary last week as Ellen Berman, the librarian from the Rockville Centre Public Library who serves as the liaison to the club, gathered with eight current members over coffee and cake to celebrate the special occasion.
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Tom Steinert
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9/1/10
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Call it life in cartoon motion.
More than 100 people attended Anime Tosho-Con, Long Island's first-ever anime conference last Saturday at the Rockville Centre Public Library, which focused on art forms emanating from the popular animated cartoons on Japanese television.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/28/10
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This summer, a wave of reading is again washing over Rockville Centre. The public library’s annual summer reading programs are officially under way, with more than 100 children and teen volunteers already signed up.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/14/10
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This isn’t your children’s suburbs.
“This isn’t even the suburbs of your children’s children,” lecturer Lawrence Levy intoned multiple times to a rapt audience that filled the basement room of the Rockville Centre Public Library on the night of June 7. “It’s a bleak picture, but not an unbeatable one. We need to be smart, successful and resourceful.”
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6/16/10
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Voters in the Rockville Centre school district have approved the 2010-11 school budget of $93.4 million. In unofficial results Tuesday night, the spending plan passed with 2,483 votes, 55 percent of the votes cast, while 2,027 residents voted against it. Despite periods of heavy rain during the day, district officials said the voter turnout was the heaviest since 2006.
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Judy Rattner
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5/18/10
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The Rockville Centre Public Library is proposing a budget of just over $3 million, 2.8 percent larger than its current spending plan. We encourage residents to support it.
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5/12/10
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Despite facing steep increases in its mandated retirement fund contributions, the Rockville Centre Public Library proposed a 2010-11 budget that trims many expenses and keeps increases low.
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Alex Costello
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4/28/10
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Three residents of the Rockville Centre school district have announced their intention to run for the two open seats on the Board of Education. They returned completed nominating petitions to the district clerk on Monday — which was the deadline for filing.
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Judy Rattner
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4/21/10
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