Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility.
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6/6/13
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For many of us who live on the South Shore, warm weather is boating season
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5/30/13
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A presentation on May 2 represented the next step in — and a new hope for — the future development of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
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5/23/13
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No doubt, Nassau County’s –– and, specifically, the Town of Hempstead’s –– demographics are a-changin’.
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5/9/13
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It’s hard to believe that the wounds inflicted by Hurricane Sandy are now six months old.
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5/2/13
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Every community needs police officers, teachers, sanitation workers and elected leaders. But every community also needs volunteers, the people whose contributions mean so much yet so often go unnoticed.
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4/25/13
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At 2:49 p.m. on April 15, two crude bombs, fashioned out of pressure cookers and ball bearings, exploded 13 seconds apart at the Boston Marathon, killing three and severely injuring nearly 180.
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4/25/13
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It’s impossible to know what cure will go undiscovered, what useful invention never devised, what art uncreated, what science unimagined, what wisdom unuttered because a boy’s or girl’s potential was submerged in vodka bottles or drowned in cans of beer.
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4/18/13
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The arrests last week of Malcolm Smith, a leader of the State Senate, and Dan Halloran, a New York City councilman, along with political leaders in Queens and the Bronx, make it tempting to think that corruption dwells west of us; that Nassau County is not tainted by big-city dirty dealings.
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4/11/13
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You’ve probably been reading a lot lately about your local school district’s proposed budget for next year.
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4/4/13
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