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The Long Island Association, a regional business advocacy group, was supposed to host its spring luncheon Friday, featuring retired Yankee great Alex Rodriguez, but instead it held an hour-long …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/27/20
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Nassau County’s Coronavirus Economic Advisory Council is asking business owners to fill out a confidential survey to gauge how the COVID-19 outbreak is hurting small, medium and big businesses …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/27/20
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Nassau County reported its fourth coronavirus death Friday morning, according to County Executive Laura Curran, who spoke in East Meadow. The patient, who was not identified, was a 44-year-old man …
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By Scott Brinton and Laura Lane
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3/20/20
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Former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, of Massapequa, died on Tuesday morning. The cause was lung cancer, which he was diagnosed with in January after experiencing back pain. Venditto was 70 …
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By Laura Lane
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3/17/20
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The village trustee elections originally scheduled for March 18 have been moved to April 28, according to an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The move is intended to reduce …
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3/17/20
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“We’re all in this together,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said at a news conference on the county and state’s efforts to stop the spread of a new strain of the …
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By Melissa Koenig
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3/12/20
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Nassau Republican legislators called Friday for state and county investigations into the office of County Comptroller Jack Schnirman, who only a week ago said at a news conference that a phishing …
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By James Bernstein
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1/24/20
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When Laura Gillen refused to concede in the race for her re-election to the highest seat in the Town of Hempstead, few were surprised. Much like her first term as supervisor, Gillen, a Democrat from …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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1/9/20
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Republican Town of Hempstead officials celebrated at Town Hall on Jan. 7 as newly minted Supervisor Donald X. Clavin and the three of the town’s five council members took the oath of office. Former Supervisor Kate Murray was also sworn as town clerk, and Jeanine Driscoll stepped into Clavin’s previous position as receiver of taxes.
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By Timothy Denton
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1/7/20
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Tom and Mercy, Ben, Nancy and Jacob. These were only five of the slaves who lived on Long Island before New York abolished slavery in 1827.
“In some cases, a single piece of paper with one of …
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By Melissa Koenig
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11/27/19
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