Thanskgiving weekend offers up more than just hitting the stores. See pumpkins smashed to the ground at the Cradle of Aviation's annual event or step back in time at a 19th century Thanksgiving at Old Bethpage Village, among other holiday happenings.
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11/21/12
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There comes a moment in a monster hurricane such as Sandy when you question why you live on Long Island, this 118-mile-long spit of glacial debris deposited in the Atlantic Ocean from the mainland 20,000 years ago.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/13/12
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Weary homeowners battered by Hurricane Sandy began to trickle into the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mobile Disaster Recovery Center at Nassau Community College’s Student Union, a red-brick building on the west side of the campus, when it opened last Friday. The center was set up to help homeowners who suffered losses in the massive storm to file for grants that will enable them to rebuild.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/5/12
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Every year, hundreds of Long Island homes suffer fires that leave the lives of their occupants in shambles.
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10/18/12
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When I first started writing this column back in the ’80s (gulp), I worked and wrote in a newspaper office.
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8/16/12
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East Rockaway residents speak out against rehab expansion, question purchase of residential property
Dozens of residents attended Monday night’s East Rockaway village board meeting to voice their concerns over the possible expansion of Lynbrook Restorative Therapy and Nursing (formerly the East …
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7/18/12
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A Queens woman has been arrested and charged with grand larceny and falsifying business records after she stole more than $12,000 from two group homes for the developmentally disabled, one in Lynbrook and another in East Rockaway, where she worked as the resident manager, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced on June 21.
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6/21/12
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Do you know where your children are? According to a survey of students, 56 percent of them are drinking, and a third of those say they drink in someone else’s home. Seventeen percent of those …
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By Mary Malloy
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10/14/11
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Most Monday mornings, 20-year-old Haris Sumra leaves his Bellmore Avenue home to take his sister to C.W. Post before heading to his own classes at St. John’s University. This Monday, Haris woke up late, and decided to return home to shower and eat breakfast after dropping off his sister.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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9/20/11
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Update: 10:00 a.m. Four Brooklyn men brandishing knives and possibly a handgun invaded a North Bellmore home on Bellmore Avenue on Monday morning, around 9 a.m., and Nassau County police officers pursued the men into Merrick and later the Wantagh-Seaford area, firing shots at and wounding one of the suspects, authorities said.
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By Scott Brinton and David Weingrad
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9/19/11
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