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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano delivered his State of the County address to a crowd of more than 400 government officials and supporters on March 15 at the Museum of American Armor at Old Bethpage. He emphasized the need for greater transparency, saying, “as one of the most transparent counties, we have learned over the years that our system can further improve.”
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/17/16
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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A crisis such as the one that has occurred in Flint, Michigan, where lead contamination was found in the city’s drinking water is much less likely to happen in the Five Towns, according to officials from New York American Water, the company that oversees water distribution in those South Shore communities.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/17/16
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At the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) High School, several focus-study programs are available to students.
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By Maia Schlussel
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12/23/15
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Exhibits and more...Doug Hilson: UrbanscapesAn original exhibition of recent works in painting and drawing by Doug Hilson, professor emeritus of fine arts at Hofstra. Imaginative large-scale, complex …
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12/2/15
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At least one holiday commercial aired before many children headed back to school from their summer vacations: Kmart rolled out a television spot called “Ridiculous” during the first week of September . . .
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11/25/15
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Central and Cedarhurst avenues, along with several side streets are expected to be packed with shoppers looking for great bargains as the Cedarhurst Business Improvement District (BID) and the village partner on holding a three-day shopping bonanza.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/18/15
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A week to the day before the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, Cedarhurst resident Eli Borochov, 20, was one of two people shot by Arab snipers at the Cave of Patriarchs, a sacred Jewish site in Hebron, Israel.
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By Vanessa Parker
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11/18/15
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In February of 1923, several young men, mostly in their 20s, military veterans of Word War I from Lawrence and Cedarhurst, came together and established the Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post 339.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/4/15
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According to a report by the New York State Cancer Registry, which is maintained by the Department of Health, the occurrence of female breast cancer in many Nassau County areas is much higher than the state expectancy rate. In fact, of Nassau County’s 65 zip codes, 35 had at least a 15 percent increase in the number of breast cancer cases anticipated in those areas, the report said.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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10/28/15
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