In his 100 years, Hewlett Harbor resident Harry Kassel was a successful businessman, creating the nation’s largest kosher beef wholesale operation in the 1960s and lending a helping hand to what has become Mount Sinai Nassau Hospital in Oceanside.
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7/22/21
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Two Nassau County legislators who wrote an op-ed in the Herald last month, proposing that a bypass be built to reduce traffic on the Nassau Expressway, stumped for their solution at a July 15 news conference in front of the Five Towns Shopping Center, where Rockaway Boulevard, in Queens, meets Rockaway Turnpike, in Nassau County.
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By Daniel Robertson
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7/15/21
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The Lawrence School District lost its appeal opposing the Town of Hempstead’s Industrial Development Agency’s granting Raymour & Flanigan a 10-year PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) for a warehouse in Lawrence.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/15/21
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Two men were arrested and one was charged with possession of a weapon after Nassau County’s Bureau of Special Operations made a traffic stop in Inwood at 3:15 p.m. on July 14, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/15/21
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A 1-year-old girl was rescued from a locked car by two Nassau County police officers near 5 p.m. on July 10 in Atlantic Beach.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/11/21
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After more than 14 hours after an oil tanker overturned on the Nassau Expressway at Burnside Avenue in Inwood at roughly 4 a.m. on July 7, and resulted in shutting down the rodway in both directions, the roadway was reopened, according to Nassau County police. The original call came in at 4:08 a.m., police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/7/21
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Leaving the Five Towns Shopping Center from the west exit on a recent Friday morning required waiting through two traffic signal cycles and cutting off a pickup truck to avoid being hit by vehicles headed to Queens, as traffic on the south side of Rockaway Boulevard, on its way to the Five Towns, obstructed the intersection.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/1/21
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A Yonkers man who allegedly tried to scam a Five Towns resident out of $6,000 was arrested by Nassau County police on June 28, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/29/21
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If you would have asked me before February 2019 where the Five Towns was, I would’ve thought you were talking about Five Towns College in Dix Hills. Flash forward to nearly two and a half years later and 500 bylines in this paper, I am proud to say that I have gotten to know the real Five Towns by covering it for the Nassau Herald.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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6/24/21
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With the school year at its endpoint, the Peninsula Public Library in Lawrence kicked off its summer reading program with an outdoor signup event on the library’s front lawn on June 8.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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6/24/21
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