Elizabeth Rios told her two kids to stay quiet and hunker down as she heard the sound of gunfire outside her Ocean Avenue home on Aug. 21. A few paces away, a hail of bullets ripped through a crowd …
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By Juan Lasso
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9/8/23
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Two men were arrested in connection with concealing a handgun police claimed was used to open fire on a home on Garfield Avenue in Valley Stream on August 13. After finding shell casings on the …
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By Juan Lasso
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9/3/23
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A vollely of bullets rang through an unsuspecting crowd of partygoers at an illegal underage party at Ocean Avenue in Valley Stream on Aug 21 at 8:30 p.m., according to police officials. The shooter …
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By Juan Lasso
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8/22/23
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After two summers of adjusting to safety protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic, the East Meadow Public Library is turning a page toward in-person and online programs to entertain and educate people …
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By Noah Diamond
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6/30/22
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I don’t know about you, but there hasn’t been one day since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when I haven’t cried or given my kids a suffocatingly tight hug.
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By Gina Sipley
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6/9/22
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The Central Long Island Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation recently constructed an “ocean-friendly garden” at Pennsylvania Avenue and Ocean Beach Park in Long Beach . . .
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6/10/21
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April 22 is Earth Day, when we come together as a nation — and a planet — to celebrate the natural world and renew our vows to protect the environment from harm. In honor of Earth Day five years ago . . .
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4/22/21
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We will need years, if not decades, to unravel and repair the damage that President Trump has done to the nation with his politics and policies.
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1/21/21
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It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school. Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers . . .
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1/7/21
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It's a frightening statistic: Pedestrian deaths shot up by nearly 56 percent nationally between 2009 and 2018, from roughly 4,000 lives lost to cars and trucks to 6,227. Long Island has its share, averaging about 60 deaths per year.
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12/10/20
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