Volunteers from Ben’s General Contracting Corp. busily coated the sheet rock walls with thick white compound, while owner Ben Jackson walked outside to assess and create a to do construction list …
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By Nadya Nataly
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8/14/17
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Since 2012, when New York state adopted the Common Core State Standards, many students with special needs have received certificates rather than diplomas when they completed high school.
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8/3/17
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New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core.
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6/1/17
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Members of the Sandel Senior Center visited South Side High School on April 7 and spent an intimate day with the students during the 39th annual Intergernational Sharing Conference.
The theme of …
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By Brian Kacharaba
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4/20/17
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The New York Attorney General has filed suit against an East Meadow company that advised residents on signing up for a state tax exemption program for allegedly scamming new homeowners out of more than $1.5 million.
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By Erik Hawkins
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1/26/17
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It’s amazing what President-elect Donald Trump can accomplish with just 140 characters. His use of Twitter has drawn criticism from the mainstream media as well as Democrats on Capitol Hill, but . . .
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1/13/17
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To have predicted Donald Trump’s stunning Nov. 8 victory, one only needed to rewind time 22 years, to 1994 –– the year low-fi-alternative musician Beck released “Loser.” Most folks probably don’t recall . . .
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1/5/17
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Two nurses, one a West Hempstead resident, and a nurse's aid were arrested on Dec. 27 for endangering and neglecting an 81-year-old resident when they failed to respond to the patient’s ventilator alarms, the state attorney general’s office announced yesterday.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/29/16
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The Village of Island Park attorney, Anthony Cornachio, and a Brooklyn couple have been charged in an alleged $1.7 million Medicaid fraud scheme, according to State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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11/12/16
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Chooga chooga chooga. Here we come, ready or not. We are the baby boomers, and there are 74 million of us . . .
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11/10/16
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