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North Merrick Board of Education Trustee John Pinto called on board members to rescind money from the district's accrued liability reserve fund for employee benefits at a Jan. 12 public meeting, a move that the district's legal counsel warned could land board members in jail.
The accrued liability reserve fund for employee benefits is used
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Sari Zeidler
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1/22/10
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Opera singer Andrea Arias-Martin felt that she has to do something when she heard about the devastation in Haiti. “The best I could do is what I do every day,” she said.
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Mary Malloy
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1/21/10
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"This isn’t cocaine. This isn’t a Saturday-Sunday drug. It’s 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year," Bill Flanagan, the Nassau County Police Department’s second deputy commissioner, told the assembly of 20 elected leaders, law enforcement officials, drug-treatment specialists and educators at Levittown Public Library on Thursday.
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Scott Brinton
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1/21/10
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Last Friday, I saw the flashing lights of a police car shining into our living room window. I looked out and saw a police officer and two other men who had gotten out of their cars, all trying to entice a large and frightened dog. I suspect they were trying to read his collar, which told us that he belonged to someone and could be far away from home.
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Mike Malloy
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1/20/10
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Members of the Assembly Minority Task Force on Crime in Our Communities will hold a public forum with Nassau County police, prosecutors, elected officials and educators on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Levittown Library. The task force will tackle the growing use of heroin in Nassau County and will discuss programs and technology that are available to combat the sale and distribution of this illegal drug.
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1/20/10
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Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that Sean Gluck, a serial purse-snatcher with two prior theft convictions, has pleaded guilty to burglary and grand larceny charges after going on his third crime spree in as many years. Gluck will receive three to six years in prison in exchange for his plea.
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1/20/10
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Eileen Casazza says that White Castle is not what Bellmore residents crave.
Casazza, who heads the ad hoc Bellmore Preservation Group, is opposing the construction of a 24-hour White Castle fast-food restaurant at the corner of Sunrise Highway and St. Marks Avenue. Casazza said that she has a core group of seven to 10 residents fighting the proposed eatery, and as many as 70 people have attended meetings at the nearby Bellmore United Methodist Church, which also opposes it.
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Scott Brinton and Deirdre Krasula
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1/19/10
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One Kennedy High School senior studied whether endophytic bacteria injected into poplars would allow the trees to grow in inhospitable rocky and sandy soil. The research, conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Suffolk County, could one day help solve both the world fuel and hunger crises.
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Scott Brinton
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1/19/10
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Residents of the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay will see their water bills rise. The New York State Public Service Commission approved a three-year rate hike plan for Aqua New York in a unanimous vote on Tuesday.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/19/10
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Over the past four years, Calhoun High School’s Senior Experience program has worked with Invisible Children, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to raise awareness and funds for the forgotten children of northern Uganda who have been displaced and violently indoctrinated into Josef Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
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1/18/10
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