STEP Program Deadline Extended to December 31st. Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano on Dec. 19 urged residents to apply for Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Program …
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12/14/12
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I watched the sun set this week down at a storm-ravaged beach, and I realized that while the sun rises and the sun sets, pretty much everything else changes.
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11/23/12
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Thanksgiving will have a different feel to it this year for many Long Island residents after Hurricane Sandy devastated thousands of homes in the area more than three weeks ago.
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By Brian Croce
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11/21/12
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Weather forecasters are often criticized for being wrong. With Hurricane Sandy, we wish they had been.
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11/15/12
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In a quiet corner of the main gymnasium at Nassau Community College’s athletic center in Garden City, where basketball games and wrestling matches are normally held, Red Cross volunteers have fashioned a small, makeshift daycare center out of room dividers, pinning up newsprint where children can draw pictures in crayon. There are books for reading as well, but little else.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/14/12
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Island Harvest and the Red Cross partner to supply shelters with food during hurricane
Island Harvest, Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization, today began supplying the American Red …
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10/30/12
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East Meadow resident Theodora Zavala always had a passion for painting and majored in this artistic medium at Queens College. After graduating in 1974, she continued on to earn an advanced degree in education and has been sharing her skills with students in first to fifth grade ever since. However, she didn’t pursue her passion as a hobby until ten years ago when she joined a class taught by Dan Slapo, Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, which she still attends every Wednesday.
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By Shannon Koehle
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6/15/12
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“You don’t want to just give the animal to just anybody,” Long Beach resident and Rescue Ink co-founder John Orlandini, better known as “Johhny O,” said as he cared for an American …
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Anthony Rifilato
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2/24/12
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Six pit bulls that were rescued from an Elmont dog-fighting ring will soon have a new home on the West Coast, under the care of a famous dog trainer.
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By Jackie Nash
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11/3/11
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To the excitement of hundreds of residents and local animal rights advocates who have been complaining for months that the Town of Hempstead’s Animal Shelter is in dire need of financial monitoring, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced on Oct. 24 that his office will audit the financial operations of the facility. The audit — which DiNapoli said is in response to hundreds of complaints from residents and intends to ensure the shelter’s “integrity of financial accountability — will begin within the next two weeks.
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By Jackie Nash
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11/2/11
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