With tears, laughter and cheers, the Blue Bombers celebrated a 5-3 championship win that wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of each and every player.
On June 16, Harris Field …
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By Nicole Formisano
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7/23/23
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EGN International Karate and Fitness Center of West Hempstead students won 53 medals at the 2021 USA Karate National Championships.
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By Robert Traverso
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10/8/21
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Town Supervisor Laura Gillen joined with members of the Town Board to honor two-time gold medalist Estee Ackerman, of West Hempstead, at the town’s board meeting on Feb. 5. She took home three …
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2/28/19
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One of more than 800 players ranging in age from 9 to 80, West Hempstead teen Estee Ackerman competed in the U.S. National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas July 2-7. Ackerman entered seven …
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By Nakeem Grant
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7/19/18
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West Hempstead teen Estee Ackerman was only 7 when she first picked up a table-tennis paddle. She played the game with her older brother Akiva in the basement of her home. Now 16, Estee is competing …
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By Nakeem Grant
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1/17/18
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Last Saturday night, NYCB Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum welcomed the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) for the first time in history. The long-anticipated event drew a crowd of 11,198, compiled a gate of more than $1 million, and saw five Long Island-born fighters compete on a card headlined by former middleweight champ Chris Weidman of Baldwin.
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By J.D. Freda
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7/24/17
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A Franklin Square restaurant will compete at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in the upstate city of that name on Saturday. Brews Brothers Grille owners Michael Weinberg and Brian Clermont will …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/31/16
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Logan Daley, a fourth-grader at St. Thomas the Apostle in West Hempstead, has been running for just four years, but on March 13 she broke the national indoor record in the 55-meter dash for girls ages 9 and 10 at the Hershey National Youth Indoor Championships at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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3/30/16
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When the octagon door closed at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on July 6, one man, Dhiego Lima, stood between Freeport’s Eddie “Truck” Gordon and the opportunity of a lifetime — a six-figure contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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By Steve Siniski
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7/16/14
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Devoting nearly a decade to the sport of Irish Dancing, Julia O’Rourke, 14, a freshman at Sacred Heart Academy, in Hempstead, shared her strategy to stomping out the competition at international …
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By Emily Webb
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11/26/13
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