After several years of work and study, Long Beach this week released a 300-plus-page plan for what the city should look like in decades to come, complete with recommendations for updating the …
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By James Bernstein
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5/21/23
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Long Beach voters passed the school district’s proposed budget by a wide margin on Tuesday, while also approving the spending plan for the library and electing two school board trustees.
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By James Bernstein and Brendan Carpenter
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5/21/23
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The well-known and well-loved East Meadow staple, Borrelli’s Pizzeria, has taken its pizza and traveled down the Meadowbrook Parkway to open Borrelli’s Taproom in Long Beach.
Located …
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By Mallory Wilson
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5/21/23
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Paul Gillespie’s life has been shaped by two major careers and passions: lifeguarding and wrestling. One has offered him a lifetime of beach, sand and saltwater. The other has given him a …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/21/23
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A leading advocate for the retail sale of marijuana in Long Beach is circulating a petition calling on the city council to allow for the legal use of cannabis as a way to help raise revenues at a …
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By James Bernstein
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5/21/23
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The Long Beach Public Schools 2023-24 budget was approved Tuesday night.
The $151.6 million budget, which has a tax levy increase of 1.5 percent, along with school board candidates Nora …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/16/23
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School board budget hearings are often noisy, sometimes even raucous affairs. But at the Long Beach school board meeting Tuesday night, matters were quite different: No one spoke — for or …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/14/23
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For years, there have been concerts throughout Long Beach — at the beach, in restaurants and at Kennedy Plaza, to name a few venues. Later this month, music will have a new home in the city: …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/14/23
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In a surprise announcement only months after losing her re-election bid to represent the Fourth District in Congress, Democrat Laura Gillen said Wednesday morning that she plans to run for the …
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By James Bernstein
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5/14/23
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Nassau County Poet Laureate Paula Curci has been awarded a $5,000 grant, made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/14/23
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