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“I would say easily that eight out of 10 parties where people are getting alcohol would be at someone’s house — most of the time parents were not there,” said Russell Stein, 20, a Long Beach High School graduate and a member of Long Beach Medical Center’s Coalition Against Underage Drinking. “It was seen as stupid to go out and get your beer at a bar. The majority [of teenagers] knew that you would get caught.”
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By Anthony Rifilato
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8/1/12
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On Sunday, July 15, 12 of Corey Lovrich’s closest friends, along with some parents and girlfriends, planted a memorial garden in front of the Lovrich’s West Hudson Street home as a way to honor their late friend.
“It was just like losing a brother,” Kyle Johnson said of Lovrich’s death on May 31, when he lost his battle with colon cancer. “We’re all best friends and we’ve all known each other since first grade or kindergarten. We’re pretty much family.”
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By Vanessa Canner
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7/25/12
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“I woke up this morning and I went into his room and I grabbed his pillow and I hugged it and I just sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to him, because I know he’s still with me,” Christopher Cuzzo’s father, Chris Cuzzo Sr., told the crowd at a candlelight ceremony for his late son on Tuesday. “I think about him every day, and I’ll always hold him here in my heart.”
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By Vanessa Canner
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7/11/12
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Long Beach High School student Christopher Cuzzo died on July 6 from unknown causes. He would have been a senior in September.
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By Vanessa Canner
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7/9/12
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In what’s become an era of specialization, the three-sport high school athlete is a dying breed, albeit far from extinct. Finding a three-sport varsity head coach is much more difficult, but they do exist.
With all due respect to those pulling triple duty in cross-country, winter track and field, and spring track and field in what seems like every school in the Herald’s coverage area, coaching three entirely different sports put Baldwin’s Darius Burton, East Rockaway’s Joe Lores, Long Beach’s T.J. Burke and West Hempstead’s Chris Van Kovics in select company.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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7/5/12
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“The underage drinking problem in Long Beach is huge,” said Judi Vining, coordinator of the Long Beach Medical Center’s Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking. “When I was growing up you …
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By Vanessa Canner
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7/3/12
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Long Beach High School graduate Samantha Shreck reminisced about her favorite moments on the night of her high school prom at Chateau Briand on June 21.
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Emily Webb
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6/28/12
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“As we reach this critical time in our lives, we hold in our hands the opportunity to do something amazing,” Long Beach High School valedictorian Jonathan Klus told his fellow graduates last …
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By Emily Webb
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6/27/12
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Long Beach High School officials say that the percentage of students in the 2007-08 freshman class who graduated in 2011 was larger than in previous years.
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By Vanessa Canner
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6/21/12
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In an annual tradition, community leaders and family members came together to honor an exceptional group of seniors at Long Beach High School’s Academic Awards Night on May 31, where students were …
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Rosemary Leonetti
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6/13/12
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