Keyword: Hurricane Sandy
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A year after Hurricane Sandy slammed the South Shore, wreaking destruction and upending lives, a committee the state created to help Bellmore and Merrick plan for future storms held its first “public engagement” meeting last week, and 40 or so residents shared their thoughts on what steps the state should take to help with that planning.
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By Brian Racow
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10/31/13
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Many South Shore homeowners are breathing easier thanks to Governor Cuomo’s decision last week to use money from the N.Y. State Housing Recovery Program to compensate those whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Sandy, but whose flood insurance claims were rejected by FEMA because the damage had been caused by “earth movement” rather than directly by floodwaters.
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10/10/13
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The vast majority of Americans don’t believe that it’s in our best interests to use military force in Syria. And for the most part, I concur with the majority.
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9/12/13
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At the end of next month, the media will focus their attention on the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.
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9/12/13
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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, the third-highest-ranking member of the Senate’s Democratic majority, spoke at a news conference on Monday in the driveway of a south Merrick home, calling on the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement a comprehensive plan to protect Nassau County’s coastline from future storms.
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By Brian Racow
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9/11/13
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In the spring of 1991, I was preparing to leave New York and begin my rabbinic career in New Orleans. One of the doormen in the building I then lived in stopped me as I was going out. “I want to show you something,” he told me, and he opened up the Daily News.
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By Rabbi Scott Hoffman, Temple Israel of South Merrick
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9/5/13
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A Republican and a Democrat standing together these days is rare. Even though we’re from different political parties, partisan politics could not have been further from our minds last Oct. 29, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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By Edward Mangano and Steven Bellone
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8/28/13
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Well, we were warned.
For many years, at the start of each hurricane season, the people of Long Island were reminded that a major hurricane could hit our area.
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8/28/13
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The South Merrick Community Civic Association will feature at its next meeting a guest speaker from Project Hope, a program that provides emotional support, education, basic counseling and service referrals to people whom Hurricane Sandy affected.
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8/21/13
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Last year, 2012, was a hot one. In fact, it was the hottest year on record for the continental U.S.
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8/21/13
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