Lawrence Woodmere Academy entered the PSAA baseball championship game at MCU Park in Brooklyn on May 20 a considerable underdog against unbeaten Bay Ridge Prep, which won the regular-season meeting between the teams by a couple of touchdowns.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/27/14
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The Beatles’ invasion of America 50 years ago this month was a global event, but in 1964, in the Five Towns, it was very much a local story.
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2/14/14
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Screaming. Shouting. Crying. Sobbing. Hair pulling. Ah, what ecstasy!
This Feb. 9 marks 50 years since The Beatles stormed America and appeared on The Ed Sullivan show. The mop-top foursome …
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By Mary Malloy
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2/5/14
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No one will contest the fact that we have experienced a cold winter up to now. Cold weather tends to drive people indoors and keeps them away from . . .
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1/31/14
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The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway will hold a blood drive at HAFTR High School at 635 Central Ave. in Cedarhurst on Monday, Nov. 18 from noon to 6 p.m.
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11/13/13
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Stepping off the train at the Forest Hills stop of the Long Island Railroad around 5 p.m. on Aug. 28, it did not take long to sense the buzz surrounding the Queens neighborhood, with the anticipation of Mumford & Sons appearing on stage at the seldom-used West Side Tennis Club in a few short hours.
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By David Weingrad
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9/3/13
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The question of what to do with the vastly underutilized 430 acres of Belmont Park has bedeviled residents, politicians and urban planners for years.
Last May, the main topic at an Elmont …
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1/25/13
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There were Super Bowl parties in homes across the country last Sunday, but few of the gatherings featured real former New York Giants.
At Atria Tanglewood in Lynbrook, a senior and …
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By Andrew McClure
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2/9/12
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“We usually hang on until St. Patrick’s Day comes, but this was a winter gift for us,” said Tom Corning, owner of Minnesota’s, of Super Bowl Sunday, where the New York Giants defeated their …
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Chris Engelhardt
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2/9/12
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The week before the Giants get ready to face off against the Patriots, two other age-old rivals faced off on the gridiron: the Island Park and Point Lookout -Lido Fire Departments.
The game, the …
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2/1/12
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