“If I had to choose one thing that I wanted in my life,” said teary-eyed eighth grader Jackie Gropper, “that would be it.”
Gropper just had front row seats to an …
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Ariella Monti
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4/14/10
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The 3rd annual Building Homes for Heroes 5K Run/Walk will take place on Sunday morning, April 18 at Hewlett Point Beach Park in Bay Park/East Rockaway. The race will begin at 9 a.m. sharp. Race …
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Mary Malloy
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4/14/10
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Ronan Tynan’s smooth tenor voice has filled St. Raymond’s Church in East Rockaway once before, for a funeral. He is returning there on April 24 for a happier occasion. One of the most …
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Mary Malloy
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4/14/10
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Joanne Borgella, who competed on season seven of "American Idol" in 2008, stopped by in Mineola to congratulate East Meadow's Girl Scout Troop No. 1108 on April 1. The cadets …
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Mike Caputo
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4/8/10
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Anyone who’s read “Lord of the Flies” knows the great capacity children have for savagery. Still, the recent suicide of a 15-year-old high school girl, following months of brutal bullying, shocks us — hopefully into action.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/8/10
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Students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at West Hempstead Middle School made the High Honor Roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year.
6th Grade
Billy …
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4/8/10
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For the past month, special education students at the Nassau BOCES Eagle Avenue Middle School in West Hempstead have participated in Strive for Five, a school-initiated program …
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Anthony Bottan
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4/8/10
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The 50th Reunion for Valley Stream Central High School's class of 1960 will be held on Saturday, June 12 at 7 p.m. at the New Hyde Park Inn.
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4/7/10
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A number of foreign-language students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at West Hempstead Middle School participated in a Spanish spelling bee, sponsored by the New York …
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3/31/10
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“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the …
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3/27/10
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