Just weeks before the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the Village of Hewlett Harbor is preparing to begin improving its infrastructure improvements to mitigate flooding.
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By Vanessa Parker
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10/7/15
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The Center for Adult Life Enrichment hosted its annual open house last Sunday at its current home in the historic Carriage House on the campus of Hewlett High School off East Rockaway Road in Hewlett. It featured entertainment by the Stardust Singers, who are mostly CALE members, and refreshments.
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9/23/15
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On Nov. 8, 2016, voters will select the man or woman they feel is most qualified to succeed Barack Obama and become the next president. Last week, I formally declared that I will support Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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9/2/15
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The Fourth Precinct building on Broadway in Hewlett is expected to be replaced as $12 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery has been allocated to construct a two-story, 25,000-square-foot structure on the same site, county officials said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/19/15
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Last week, two New Yorkers, Sen. Chuck Schumer and rock star Billy Joel, made New Yorkers and Long Islanders proud.
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8/12/15
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The Rodriguez family of Freeport was welcomed to their new Inwood neighborhood by Town of Hempstead officials with a “Welcome Home” placemat and commemorative key to their new $172,000 home on Aug. 5.
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By Vanessa Parker
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8/12/15
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Q. We’ve lived in our split-level house for 40 years, and never had this kind of trouble. My insurance company says I have a basement and my house has four floors. They want to call our first floor a basement . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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7/29/15
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Each night as a child, Connie Roberts stroked her white plastic rosary beads, recited her prayers and curled up in her comfortless bed at the Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, in Ireland’s Midlands region. She often heard screams echo through the cavernous institution.
Now 52, Roberts can still hear them in her head. They were, she said, “the worst.”
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By Scott Brinton
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7/22/15
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Q. I got a letter from my village that says my house needs to be lifted, and that it’s mandatory because I was lucky enough to be 50 percent damaged by Sandy.
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By Monte Leeper
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7/22/15
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On July 10, South Carolina finally decided to join the Union for good when it removed the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds in Columbia, its capital.
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7/15/15
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