Keyword: Scott Brinton
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Dressed in a black blouse and blue jeans, Carol Gies stood silently on Tuesday morning, her chin in her hands, her elbows resting on a crane that was lifting a twisted World Trade Center girder into the parking lot at the Merrick Fire Department’s Friendship Engine and Hose Company.
Gies, who lost her husband, Ronnie, in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, looked forlorn.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/26/11
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For a moment, I stopped paddling and took in Merrick Bay, its virtually still surface glistening in the morning sunlight. In the distance, the Jones Beach water tower and amphitheater stood out amid a light haze. The view was, in a word, breathtaking.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/25/11
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At 6:30 a.m. on a recent Monday, I was running hard when I had to stop abruptly at the corner of Merrick Avenue and Merrick Road in Merrick, my hometown. The stoplight had suddenly changed, and the traffic started moving in front of me. I hadn’t noticed that the light had changed. I was in something of a runner’s trance.
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7/14/11
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray and a group of 15 government officials, civic leaders and engineers donned sunglasses as they unveiled two “solar trackers” in the back parking lot of the town’s Department of Conservation and Waterways in Lido Beach on Monday.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/12/11
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I would guess that Teddy Roosevelt, the second-greatest Republican president after Abraham Lincoln, would have lobbied for a federal cap-and-trade program.
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6/30/11
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Eight years ago, I planted three red tart cherry trees in my backyard. And as much as it pains me as a proud gardener to write this, they were scrawny little things for most of that time, no matter what I did to pump life into their veins.
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6/16/11
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You wouldn’t expect to find a turn-of-the-century roadster ominously dubbed the “Black Beast” at a news conference convened by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, but that’s precisely what took center stage at a media event he held at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Friday.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/11
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Seventh-grade sports might have to be eliminated. The nine-period day might be reduced to eight. And teachers might have to be let go. After that, no one’s sure what might happen, but school districts will have to keep cutting.
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Scott Brinton
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6/2/11
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The Bellmore Kiwanis and Lions clubs are set to host the annual Nassau County Strawberry Festival this weekend.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/1/11
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With a single vote on May 24, the Nassau County Legislature shifted 576,000 voters out of their current legislative districts and into new ones, while also moving certain districts, such as the 19th, across the county.
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By David Weingrad
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5/24/11
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