Keyword: Long Beach
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The effort to rebuild our communities after Hurricane Sandy’s devastation has not been without a sense of urgency, especially when it comes to reconstructing homes and critical infrastructure “stronger, smarter and safer.”
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1/31/13
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Eight days after playing its worst half of the season and suffering a 31-point blowout loss at Mepham, a complete team effort lifted Long Beach to a 41-36 upset victory in the rematch last Friday that kept it in contention for the Nassau Conference AA-III girls’ basketball title.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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1/29/13
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Asked what makes Island Harvest so successful, its president and CEO, Randi Shubin Dresner, answered with a single word: “Passion.”
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By David Weingrad
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12/22/12
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The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/20/12
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When the 26 students in Calhoun High School’s leadership class were batting around ideas for a community service project in November, they didn’t debate their cause –– they wanted to do something, anything, to aid those whose homes had been ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.
And when they went looking for possible projects, they thought immediately of Long Beach, which took the brunt of the storm, suffering an estimated $250 million in damage.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/19/12
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Part four in a series on how South Shore residents are coping in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Veterinarian Dr. Lee Gelfand of Merrick, whose All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Long Beach was all but destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, finds hope in the stories that pet owners tell in the superstorm’s aftermath.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/4/12
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Storms of epic proportions are a challenge to everyone near or directly affected by them.
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11/29/12
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The hurricane-force winds and the mountainous storm surge are now just bad memories, but in many areas of the Heralds’ coverage area, Hurricane Sandy’s consequences will live on for weeks, months or years.
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11/29/12
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In better times, Ralph Isaacs drove his family from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon in a rented RV. He loved living in the RV. Now he dreads it. For nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the South Shore, he lived in one, parked in front of his one-story Long Beach home.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/27/12
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After speaking to her family, who is dispersed between Cedarhurst, Long Beach, New York City and Port Washington, and then reading comments on Facebook and viewing random online videos of the destruction Hurricane Sandy wrought in her native area, Boca Raton, Fla. resident Mara Cavallo Benkirane became determined to help.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/16/12
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