The city is fast-tracking plans to build a new skate park at the Recreation Center, one that will include input from the public, and has many in the skateboarding and surfing community lauding the …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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12/10/14
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Lerthon Theuma is one of 15 players on the Hofstra men’s soccer team who was born outside the United States, but Theuma is the only one of them who can say he went to high school in this country. The Franklin Square resident moved here from Malta when he was 12 and spent his teenage formative years adjusting to American cultural norms, both on and off the soccer field.
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By Nathan Weiser
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12/1/14
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W.T. Clarke football coach John Boyle always knew that Scott Martin was a born leader.
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By David Weingrad
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11/19/14
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I can’t explain precisely how I determined which college I would attend. The process was more art than science.
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8/6/14
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I’m not ashamed to say that the wild boys were my friends.
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7/16/14
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Michelle Hauser, 17, recalls driving through the Superstorm Sandy–ravaged sections of her hometown of Oceanside 19 months ago. She explained that she remembers asking her father why construction workers from California and Arkansas were repairing utility poles in the neighborhood, but he didn’t know the answer.
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By Julie Mansmann
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7/10/14
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“What is our generation going to be known for?” Valedictorian Chandler McMillan asked the Long Beach High School class of 2014 at last week’s graduation ceremony. “It has to be more than …
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By Jasmine Blennau
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7/2/14
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Long Beach resident Francis “Biggie” McDonough was born to John and Maureen (Berner) McDonough on July 17, 1974. He joined his parents in heaven on June 20 from complications due to a …
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6/24/14
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LBHS Valedictorian Chandler McMillan
‘Living the American dream’
“The most influential person in my life is my grandmother,” said Long Beach High School’s valedictorian, Chandler …
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By Rosemary Leonetti
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6/20/14
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The Long Island Volunteer Center, an affiliate of Points of Light’s HandsOn Network, secured a $50,000 grant from the Major League Baseball Players Trust to help restore the damage done by …
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5/23/14
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