“Where is LIPA?”
That was the question asked by Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, who, with councilman Gary Hudes, joined together on Saturday afternoon with roughly 100 residents from Levittown, East Meadow and Salisbury who have lacked power in their homes since Hurricane Sandy struck Long Island on Oct. 29.
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By David Weingrad
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11/10/12
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The Town of Hempstead is one of many local governments that are scrambling to help homeowners in need following the wreckage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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By David Weingrad
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11/2/12
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Richard Bivone, the property consultant for
333 All Seasons Realty Corp, told the Herald on Wednesday evening that an application to add a taxi dispatch center on the corner of Clearmeadow Drive and Hempstead Turnpike in East meadow has officially been withdrawn.
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10/24/12
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Members of Latino organizations and other community groups across Long Island protested the Town of Hempstead’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration last week in support of Mark Bonilla, the town clerk who recently said he does not plan to resign even though he faces criminal charges related to sexual harassment complaints by a town employee.
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/18/12
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Town of Hempstead officials stood together Saturday morning to call for the resignation of Town Clerk Mark Bonilla, who the night before was arrested on misconduct charges.
Bonilla, the town …
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By Andrew Hackmack and Julie Mansmann
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9/22/12
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Airplane noise is becoming a nuisance for many Nassau County residents.
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By Shannon Koehle
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8/30/12
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I am 25 years old, and until recently, I had never dived into the water. Call me crazy, but the prospect of plunging headfirst into a deep pool of blue had always spurred a sense of anxiety in me. So I was more of a slowly-ease-yourself-into-the-water-stair-by-stair-while-wincing-and-complaining-about-how-cold-the-water-is kind of guy.
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By David Weingrad
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8/21/12
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For the past three months, the 27 Nigerian dwarf goats that call the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick home have been drinking water from a rainwater-collection barrel when they reach the top of “Mount Merrick,” the 100-foot-high, tree-covered hill in the center of the park that was once a landfill.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/16/12
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It was a promising sign to see several firms answer Nassau County’s recent call for a master developer to create a workable plan for the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the surrounding Hub area.
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Eric Alexander
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8/9/12
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Lately I’ve begun to think of Long Island as neither a region of New York state nor a semi-cohesive bedroom community that owes its existence to the mother ship, Manhattan. Rather, I’ve begun to think of Long Island as an ecosystem.
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8/2/12
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