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Last August, Tropical Storm Irene hit Long Island hard, ravaging neighborhoods across the South Shore. There was massive flooding, thousands of downed trees and widespread property damage.
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8/9/12
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Lately I’ve begun to think of Long Island as neither a region of New York state nor a semi-cohesive bedroom community that owes its existence to the mother ship, Manhattan. Rather, I’ve begun to think of Long Island as an ecosystem.
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8/2/12
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There are all kinds of captives in this world. Some live in places like Syria, where a ruthless dictator slaughters innocent people to hold on to power. Others live in places like Cuba, where nothing ever happens to improve the lives of its citizens.
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7/26/12
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Everything that Oceanside native Erica Scharf remembers learning about Native Americans in school took the form of history lessons — where Indians used to live and what they used to do.
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By Alex Costello
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7/18/12
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Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent CollectionThis rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European …
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7/11/12
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The achievements for Oceanside High School’s Blake Smith just keep mounting.
Not only is he the salutatorian for the class of 2012, but his research project into a possible cure for cancer — …
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By Alex Costello
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6/6/12
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Exhibits and more...
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent CollectionThis rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European …
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6/6/12
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According to The Associated Press, some 1,843 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
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5/24/12
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Barack Obama is, of course, our first African-American president. According to the birthers, he is also our first foreign-born president.
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5/24/12
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The number of American armed service members who have died in our major wars — the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq — now stands at 1,247,920.
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5/24/12
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