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Signs taped to the walls of Kennedy High School’s cafeterias on Nov. 15 did not advertise club meetings or school events, as usual. Some featured a SpongeBob SquarePants character who, as it happens, bears the same the name as the hurricane that destroyed many students’ and teachers’ homes –– Sandy –– with a red line across the character’s picture. Most of the posters, though, promoted a special community dinner.
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/20/12
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Each day since Hurricane Sandy hit the region, the number of New Yorkers who have filed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has grown, and so too has the amount of reported funds given out by FEMA.
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11/20/12
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Substituting a town hall-style meeting for its regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting on Monday, the Lawrence School District invited residents to the cafeteria in the high school for an update on district news after Hurricane Sandy.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/20/12
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For the past 17 years, Woodmere Lanes Owner Nick Paxinos has been preparing and delivering Thanksgiving meals to St. Boniface Parish in Elmont and the First Baptist Church in Far Rockaway, but this year he’s also planning to serve those who are displaced by Hurricane Sandy.
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By Ann Friedman
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11/20/12
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Q: I was convicted for participation in the burglary of a liquor store when I was 18 years old. Can this be held against me when I apply for a job?A: Whether your conviction record can be considered …
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By Lois Carter Schlissel
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11/20/12
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From noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Number Six School at the intersection of Peninsula and Branch boulevards in Woodmere and on Wednesday at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence, the Town of Hempstead will have a walk-in center to help residents.
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11/19/12
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The walls of water came crashing into Long Beach Medical Center’s lower levels during Hurricane Sandy so quickly on the night of Oct. 29 that the facility’s basement was flooded from floor …
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The Gibson section of Valley Stream passed the recent 1-percent-chance-in-100-years test with Hurricane “Frankenstorm” Sandy and the nor’easter with no flooding and no property damage to my Gibson Boulevard home.
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11/16/12
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Almost 18 months after one of the deadliest tornadoes in history cut a swath through the heart of Joplin, Mo., I discovered some words of wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a writer I have long admired.
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Carol Stark
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11/16/12
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After speaking to her family, who is dispersed between Cedarhurst, Long Beach, New York City and Port Washington, and then reading comments on Facebook and viewing random online videos of the destruction Hurricane Sandy wrought in her native area, Boca Raton, Fla. resident Mara Cavallo Benkirane became determined to help.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/16/12
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