The Calhoun girls’ varsity badminton team recently won the Nassau County Championship with a 4-3 victory over Great Neck South. The Calhoun girls finished the season with a 15-0 record –– and their second straight championship. Team Captain Christina Strezenec won the overall singles title, beating out all other Nassau badminton players in a two-day tournament. With this win, Strezenec became the only player in Calhoun history to win four county titles playing a varsity sport.
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5/21/10
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Despite an aggressive campaign by three challengers who were seeking to create a more diverse Lawrence school board to reflect the makeup of the school district, the incumbents were overwhelmingly …
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Lori Gross
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5/20/10
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Once again, New York state’s two biggest enemies — the ravenous unions and the legislators who are afraid to vote against them — have reared their ugly heads. Love him or hate him, let’s give our lame duck governor, David Paterson, credit for taking a stand.
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Al D'Amato
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5/20/10
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An appeal in the case of five District 15 parents whose civil rights lawsuit against the Board of Education had been thrown out by a federal judge last August will be heard in the 2nd Circuit Court …
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Andrew Coen
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5/19/10
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A former Atlantic Beach village trustee who last served on the board a decade ago is trying to return to local government with a run for mayor. Edward A Radburn, who lost his re-election bid for …
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Andrew Coen
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5/19/10
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Hewlett High School's Euro Challenge Team under the advisorship of Dr. Patricia Nardi made the Euro Challenge Semi-Finals. Hewlett scored the highest score in the Northeast competing 38 teams …
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5/19/10
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Hewlett-Woodmere was selected as one of "Best Communities for Music Education" across the country in 2010, according to the NAMM Foundation survey released last week.
Schools were measured across …
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5/19/10
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On April 21, students in the Lawrence Middle School "Once Upon a Book Club" traveled to Ronkonkoma to see a performance of the classic fantasy, love story, Cinderella, performed at Long Island …
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5/19/10
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District 14 voters overwhelmingly approved the proposed Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools budget proposal, as well as a proposition to establish a Capital Reserve Fund for technology projects, on …
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Andrew Coen
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5/19/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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