For the second straight year, the Mepham High School kickline team placed first in two categories at the Scholastic Kickline Competition at Nassau Community College, earning the Champion of Champions title in the lyrical and pom categories after securing the highest cumulative score in a series of three scholastic competitions Feb. 28. The girls also placed first in kick in their division.
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Deirdre Krasula
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3/18/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Power Authority, described last Saturday’s nor’easter as “one of the biggest weather events in Long Island history.”
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Anthony Bottan
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3/17/10
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Well, here I go again. Life is just not busy enough for me, what with writing, reporting, editing, teenagers, curfews, mortgage and such — but I am honing my thespian chops now in “On …
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Mary Malloy
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3/17/10
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Elected leaders, fire officials, school principals, librarians and Board of Education trustees converged on Birch Elementary on Wednesday morning for school’s the annual Community Read In. The event is intended to stimulate the children’s interest in –– what else? –– reading.
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3/17/10
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Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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An unidentified man smashed through the front door of the Long Island Power Authority building in Bellmore on Monday at 5:15 p.m., according to Nassau County police officials. At press time, the man had not been found. Police are investigating.
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3/16/10
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Merrick School District officials are reporting that power and heat have been restored at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick and that classes would resume there on Tuesday. The school had been closed on Monday owing to a power outage after the weekend's big nor'easter
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3/16/10
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State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., Republican from Merrick, offered the following emergency numbers to report a downed tree or power line on Monday:
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3/16/10
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High winds with gusts up to 75 miles per hour sent a multi-story oak tree crashing into the home of 16-year-old Nick Attanasio of Seneca Drive North in Merrick on Saturday.
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Scott Brinton
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3/15/10
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