Hundreds of Franklin Square residents waved American and “thin blue line” flags as they followed a pickup truck playing patriotic country music from the town parking lot on Sobo Avenue to …
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By Melissa Koenig
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10/6/20
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Black women were front and center at the latest Black Lives Matter protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Sept. 24.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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9/28/20
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Nearly a dozen activists drove from the Chase Bank on Linden Boulevard in Elmont to the intersection of 217 Street and Linden Boulevard in Cambria Heights, Queens on Sunday, spreading awareness of …
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By Melissa Koenig
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8/25/20
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There is a new generation label that many of us fall into, along with our Generation X and Millennial designation – the Sandwich Generation. This large group of 30-, 40- and 50-somethings can …
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by Michele Biggart, Director of Sales, Fountaingate Gardens
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8/7/20
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About a thousand people — most young people — gathered on the beach in Long Beach on July 18, in clear violation of the state’s current ban . . .
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7/31/20
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Jennifer Cittadino had wanted a Blue Lives Matter flag for some time when she came across a vendor selling picket fence posts at a craft fair in Franklin Square nearly three years ago, and asked her …
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By Melissa Koenig
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7/28/20
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As we phase in more of the everyday activities we once enjoyed, it’s important to remember that this is a “new normal,” not necessarily the normal we were once accustomed to. As a …
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7/22/20
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“United We Stand,” “Black Lives Matter” and “Brave, Love, Amazing, Caring and Kind” were just some of the messages 30 community members scrawled on the pavement at …
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By Melissa Koenig
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7/21/20
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This week, the Herald Community Newspapers are making a seemingly small, but we believe critical, change to our Style Guide. Going forward, the Herald will use a capital B when writing about Black people.
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7/17/20
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It was a solemn weekend in Oyster Bay, as the replica slave ship schooner, Amistad, docked at the western end of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park from July 11 to July 13.
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By Jennifer Corr
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7/17/20
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