Q: We planned on buying a home in a particular school district, but the sale fell through and we are still in our old home. Our children have already started school in …
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By Lynn M. Brown
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11/11/13
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Q: My real estate taxes have gone up each year and are much higher than that of my neighbor. What is going on?
A: The tax rates in both Nassau and Suffolk County have increased each year because …
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By Richard G. Fromewick
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11/11/13
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Temple Beth El celebrates 90 years
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Temple Beth El, a Conservative congregation, celebrated its 90th anniversary with gala at the Locust Avenue synagogue in Cedarhurst on Oct. 27.
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11/8/13
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Chabad biking raises $25,700 for Friendship Circle
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Nearly 250 people took part in the Jean Fischman Chabad Center’s Friendship Circle of the Five Towns second annual Bike4Friendship event on Oct. 27 that raised more than $25,700 for the Friendship Circle.
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11/8/13
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October 29, 2012 — surely a date that I will never forget. Yes, this day marked the start of a five-month period during which I would not be able to live in my home in Woodmere. And true, my basement, which had become a five-foot swimming pool, smelled like a mixture of sewage waste and Seaworld due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Dena Gershkovich
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11/6/13
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Power outages in the Five Towns after Hurricane Sandy kept schools closed up to two weeks due to the unsafe conditions caused by traffic signals that weren’t working, forced businesses to remain shuttered and left residents to sit in the dark unless they had generators.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/6/13
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1000 Miles team raises $3,000 to fight cancer
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Students and families from the Hewlett-Woodmere community took part in the “Strides Against Cancer Walk” held at Jones Beach State Park on Oct. 20.
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10/30/13
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LWA’s homecoming was a ball of fall fun
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For five hours the campus of Lawrence Woodmere Academy on Woodmere Boulevard in Woodmere was transformed into an autumn fun-land as the school held its annual Homecoming on Oct. 19.
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10/30/13
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Larceny from auto
WOODMERE- Between 11 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 17, property was stolen from a vehicle parked on Brower Avenue, according to police.
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10/30/13
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At this time last year, I thought things would never be the same. Hurricane Sandy had just hit and I was sitting in my kitchen in complete darkness, wondering how life would be different.
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Nicole Engleman
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10/30/13
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