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The year that Helen Gebhard was born, the United States began construction on the Panama Canal. The New York City subway system opened on October 27, and the first New Year’s Eve celebration was held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York.
On December 26, 2009, Gebhard celebrated her 105th birthday among friends and family at Sunrise of North Lynbrook on December 26, 2009. “I am crying, but I think they’re tears of joy,” she said.
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Mary Malloy
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1/7/10
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New Police Commissioner Charles Gennario officially took the reins of the Police Department at the village board meeting on Monday when he was sworn in by Mayor Mary Bossart. Immediately afterward, Gennario promoted five officers and swore in three new ones.
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1/6/10
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To the surprise of both village and school officials, a work crew has installed a gate and several new posts, presumably for a second gate, between the South Side High School campus and Fireman’s Field, adjacent to the school. The work on the gate at the main entrance to the field, which began on Dec. 30, was completed last weekend.
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Judy Rattner
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1/6/10
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A large audience at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City on Monday witnessed the official transfer of power on the Nassau County Legislature.
After 10 years of Democratic control, the eighth session of the Legislature will now be in the hands of Republicans, who have an 11-8 majority.
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Mike Caputo
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1/6/10
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While taking a thinly veiled swipe at the previous, Democratically controlled county government, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray touted her administration's fiscal and environmental accomplishments in her inaugural speech on Tuesday.
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Scott Brinton
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1/5/10
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A large audience at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City on Monday witnessed the official transfer of power on the Nassau County Legislature.
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Mike Caputo
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1/4/10
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“This is very cool… and quite an honor,” new Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano said as a hundreds applauded and chanted his name on New Year’s Day. Mangano was sworn in as the eighth county executive in the auditorium of his alma mater, Bethpage High School.
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Andrew Hackmack
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1/1/10
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On Feb. 13, 1973, when, as Jack McKeon would say, “the Dead Sea was just sick,” he was sworn in as an officer in the Rockville Centre Police Department. This New Year’s Eve, almost 37 years later, McKeon was set to retire after 19 years as commissioner — the longest tenure ever for a head of the RVCPD.
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Alex Costello
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12/31/09
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On Feb. 13, 1973, when, as Jack McKeon would say, “the Dead Sea was just sick,” he was sworn in as an officer in the Rockville Centre Police Department. This New Year’s Eve, almost 37 years later, McKeon was set to retire after 19 years as commissioner — the longest tenure ever for a head of the RVCPD.
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Alex Costello
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12/30/09
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By a margin of 59 to 41 percent, residents of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District defeated a proposed $31.8 million bond in a Dec. 17 vote. The measure would have financed renovations to South Side High School.
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by Judy Rattner
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12/23/09
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