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“Homecoming” usually conjures images of colorful parade floats and hard-fought football games, but for the students, faculty and staff of East Rockaway and Lawrence high schools, the term has a more basic meaning: the return to their respective school buildings after months of repair following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
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By Mary Malloy and Jeff Bessen
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4/24/13
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For Harmon Street resident Josie Matier, it sometimes feels like only yesterday that a 9-foot storm surge washed over the city, the disastrous result of Hurricane Sandy.
At around 6:30 p.m. last …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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10/31/13
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All Valley Stream schools will be closed for the remainder of the week. An announcment was recently made that schools will not open on Thursday and Friday, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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10/31/12
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The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards named an Oceanside Middle School student one of New York’s top youth volunteers of 2013.
The national program, which focuses on outstanding volunteer …
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Aaron Axelson
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2/14/13
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Hurricane Sandy came and went and left a trail of destruction behind in Valley Stream that rivaled many other South Shore communities, though it fared better than coastal areas.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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10/31/12
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The Rockville Centre elementary schools celebrated Thanksgiving in a myriad of ways, often with reflection on Hurricane Sandy’s effect on the surrounding area.
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11/28/12
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The superstorm called Hurricane Sandy will surely go down as one of the U.S.’s most costly and crippling storms, ripping a $20 billion swath of destruction up the Eastern Seaboard, and Long Island’s South Shore was front and center amid the tumult as Sandy’s northern end lashed communities from Bellmore to Valley Stream and from Long Beach to Rockville Centre.
Now, after the flooding and the fires, the anxiety and fear, the South Shore must slowly rebuild, one home, one school, one business at a time.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/31/12
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Like no other storm since the “Long Island Express” of 1938, Hurricane Sandy ripped apart Long Island’s South Shore, lifting docks off their moorings and depositing them miles away, tearing hot tubs from backyard decks and dumping them in the canals that line the coast, and sending boats big and small hurtling out to sea.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/13
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Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy, a committee of Long Beach residents representing a cross-section of the community has been tasked with developing a plan to spend $25 million on storm recovery …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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10/9/13
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Many East Rockaway businesses took a direct hit from Hurricane Sandy — both physically and financially.
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By Mary Malloy and Brian Croce
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11/28/12
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