Five Towns children in first to fifth grade are invited to enter a free drawing contest as a sample of the program, “KIDS BE KIDS,” at the Community Enrichment Mini-Center in Woodmere, during Lemonade Month.
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8/2/12
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Reunited and it feels so good
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Those who once attended Trade School in Lawrence, now known as the Five Towns Community Center, hosted their annual reunion on July 28.
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8/2/12
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Lately I’ve begun to think of Long Island as neither a region of New York state nor a semi-cohesive bedroom community that owes its existence to the mother ship, Manhattan. Rather, I’ve begun to think of Long Island as an ecosystem.
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8/2/12
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To help three of its members who are going off to college this fall, Inwood-based Hard Knox is holding a graduation celebration that is doubling as a fundraising event on Aug. 4.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/26/12
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After hitting another car and nearly crashing into a home on Meadow Lane in Lawrence at 7:34 p.m. on July 22, an alleged drunken driver was taken into custody by 4th Precinct officers, and then taken to South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside.
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7/23/12
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A Lawrence-Cedarhurst firefighter and Fourth Precinct police officers rescued a handicapped woman from a fire at a house at 456 Fifth Ave. in Cedarhurst on July 20.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/23/12
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Go back to the days where your parents brought you to school and you cried when they left you with your teacher.
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By Adrish Tewarie
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7/12/12
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Cuts in funding for youth services that are provided by many Nassau County-based, private youth, mental-health and addiction-treatment agencies, including the Five Towns Community Center, would have a drastic impact on the Lawrence-based agency’s infrastructure and the community it serves, Executive Director Bertha Pruitt says.
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By Ann Friedman
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7/12/12
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Not having the required field permits and a lack of community support two years ago forced a group of Hispanic women soccer players in Inwood to abandon the team they had played on for four years.
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By Ann Friedman
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6/20/12
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An unidentified man dressed differently from the bar mitzvah attendees at a synagogue wants access to the building. Outside the temple, a person in a parked car appears to be more of a potential threat than a law enforcement agent.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/20/12
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