A dumpster full of potentially noxious liquids that the Town of Hempstead collected as part of its S.T.O.P. (Stop Throwing Out Pollutants) program caught fire on Saturday, March 23, while it was being transported by truck south on Merrick Avenue in Merrick.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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4/3/13
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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst.
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2/28/13
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Answering a call to help end childhood hunger on Long Island, Lynbrook North and South middle schools teamed up with Stop & Shop supermarket to participate in a food drive challenge to benefit …
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By Mary Malloy
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2/27/13
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Every year, hundreds of Long Island homes suffer fires that leave the lives of their occupants in shambles.
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10/18/12
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Bring the family to Nassau Coliseum where the Sesame Street crew is ready to break out in song this weekend. Other for a grand sing-along. Other highlights include the acclaimed Jupiter String Quartet at Adelphi University Performing Arts Center and Hofstra University's annual fall spectacle, its "Italian Experience."
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9/19/12
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Two men robbed the Merrick Game Stop at gunpoint early on Tuesday morning, according to Nassau County police.
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By David Weingrad
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8/28/12
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Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands.
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4/5/12
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Some 270 volunteers grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat last Saturday to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to clean up more than 18 tons of rubber tires, Styrofoam buoys, aluminum cans and plastic bottles trapped amid the reeds and rushes.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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3/28/12
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Santa was whisked across the Bellmores on Friday in a shiny, red Bellmore fire truck, making stops at the North Jerusalem Road shopping center and Stop & Shop in North Bellmore and Ace Hardware and the Bellmore firehouse in Bellmore to hear children’s Christmas wish lists.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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11/25/11
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Former New York Giant George Martin visited the Stop & Shop Supermarket on Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead last Saturday from noon until 1:30 p.m. to sign autographs and pose for pictures …
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11/9/11
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