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Be prepared for the next Big One
In the movie “Jaws,” Amity Mayor Larry Vaughn said, “You yell ‘Barracuda!’ and everyone says, ‘Huh?’ You yell ‘Shark!’ and we’ve got a panic on our hands.” The same could be said of hurricanes. more
East Rockaway school District officials have scheduled a tour for 11 a.m. on Saturday to show residents the many improvements that are needed at district buildings.
Saturday's facilities tour to showcase needed repairs as East Rockaway school officials mull bond
With buildings across the East Rockaway School District in need of repairs and upgrades, officials have scheduled a facilities tour at the high school on Saturday at 11 a.m. for residents to get a glimpse of the needs themselves. more
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Continuing post-Sandy confusion
Q. I’ve been reading about new homeowners who applied for solar panels and found out they unknowingly bought a home that needs to be raised. What a mess! However, I really can’t get a grasp on the scope of the problem and which homes are affected. more
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George Bush: a man of good judgment and steady leadership
For 12 of the 18 years I served in the Senate, George H.W. Bush loomed large on the national scene, first as a loyal vice president to Ronald Reagan, and then as president during one of the most turbulent periods . . . more
Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy reviewed paperwork detailing current and upcoming storm resiliency projects in the village.
Mayor focuses on storm resiliency: $17M for protection plan
Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy was sifting through a stack of reports on his desk at Village Hall on Tuesday. They offered details about the village’s storm-resiliency projects to guard against future hurricanes. more
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Town officials and environmentalists submerged hundreds of mesh bags containing shells off the coast of Lido Beach.
Building a reef with seafood shells
Hempstead Town officials and environmentalists launched a living barrier reef composed of tens of thousands of discarded clam and oyster shells from nearby seafood restaurants near Long Meadow Island … more
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Deputy Village Attorney Robert McLaughlin, left, and Mayor Robert Kennedy answered homeowners’ questions about construction and elevation projects in the village on April 25.
Freeport family struggles to stay in NY Rising
Angry Freeporters filled the benches at Village Hall on April 25. Twenty-seven families came to speak about the same person: the contractor who they said they hired to elevate and rebuild their … more
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In each of the four recent nor’easters that battered the North Shore, the tide at Prybil Beach roared in and then receded. By late March, approximately 400 tons of sand were gone. Mayor Tim Tenke, at right above, Parks and Recreation Director Darcy Belyea, and Manny Grella, general foreman of the Department of Public Works, surveyed an access ramp that collapsed under its own weight after the sand beneath it was washed away.
Amid Prybil woes, Glen Cove officials eye May opening
The fate of Prybil Beach has been uncertain since mid-January, when city officials closed East Beach Road — one of two access roads that lead to the beach — due to dangerous potholes. But the … more
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Atlantic Nursery owners in Freeport, Leeanne Kraus, 38, Sigurd Feile, 73 and Christine Feile, 42 marveled and talked about the pansies and other flowers that held up through the last four winter storms in the last month and a half.
Spring gardening’s slow start
The inclement weather has sent a shutter down local gardeners’ backs after four nor’easters have pounded gardens with snow, ice and high winds. It has been nearly impossible for gardeners start … more
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Landing cemetery at 7 a.m. on March 22, the morning after the storm.
Glen Cove recovers from four'easter
Updated 10:45 a.m. March 22: In the wake of the fourth nor'easter in a month, Glen Cove is yet again digging itself out. The storm had deposited about 5.5 inches of snow by 7 p.m. on March 21, and … more
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