The drunk driver who killed East Rockaway resident Tim Motherway in a car accident last March pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter and one count of misdemeanor DWI on Tuesday at Nassau County Criminal Court in Mineola. The drunk driver, Patricia Bregel, 33, will receive 16 months to 4 years in jail. She will begin to serve her sentence in six weeks.
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Anthony Bottan
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4/1/10
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East Rockaway Village Trustee Irene V. Villacci was one of 19 women who were awarded with the Nassau County Legislature’s “Trailblazer/Women of Distinction” award by Legislator Francis X. Becker on Mar. 22 at the offices in Mineola.
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Mary Malloy
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4/1/10
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Nassau County Search and Recovery police, along with a county ambulance, helicopter and the Marine water rescue squad — as well as the Coast Guard — answered a call this morning of a car that went into the water via the boat ramp at Bay Park.
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Mary Malloy
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3/31/10
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Exhibits and more...Arcadia/Suburbia: Architecture on Long Island, 1930-2010The exhibit examines the impressive architectural history of Long Island, especially on the North Shore. It underscores the …
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3/31/10
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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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Exhibits and more...
A Sense Of PlaceWorks of James T. Johnathan, a business pioneer and renaissance man are on exhibit, presented by The Long Island Center of Photography. Through June 30. …
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3/26/10
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Highlights include a performance of Godspell in Bellmore, a musical revue of the life and times of Desi Arnaz at Hofstra, and still more circus antics with the National Circus Project at Long Island Children's Museum.
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3/24/10
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One striking tradition that is widely observed by Jews at their Passover Seders involves the afikomen, a piece of matzah broken off near the beginning of the evening and eaten by participants “for dessert” after the meal.
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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3/24/10
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A Long Beach man was killed in a fatal motorcycle accident on Lawson Boulevard in Oceanside Wednesday, March 17. Police said Mark Dejak, 21, formerly of Lynbrook, was driving his motorcycle north on Lawson when he hit a bus turning left across the northbound lanes into a school bus parking lot just before 5 p.m.
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3/24/10
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