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The public testimony of Lawrence native Michael Cohen before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Feb. 27, the second of three days on which Cohen answered questions on Capitol Hill, was viewed through a diverse set of prisms.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/7/19
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After a six-months long investigation, five people were arrested on Feb. 26 and then charged for their alleged roles in what the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office called alleged credit union loan fraud ring, whose members attempted to steal more than $1 million from five major credit unions, including Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union, and hundreds of individuals were allegedly targeted. Allegedly, they stole more than $250,000.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/2/19
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The Village of Lawrence board of trustees voted 3-2 at its Feb. 14 public meeting to spend at least $25,000 on a study to be conducted by Chicago-based Market & Feasibility Advisors, to determine the viability and economics of a multipurpose community center on Rock Hall Road land where a sewage treatment plant was housed.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/28/19
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Michael Cohen, who went from growing up in Lawrence and attending schools in the Five Towns to working as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is on his third day of testifying on Capitol Hill.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/26/19
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Thirteen Lawrence Woodmere Academy students traveled to San Juan in order to help the Hurricane Maria-devastated island from Feb. 13 to 18. Through two reforestation projects and a beach cleanup, the LWA students helped transform a humble community in Puerto Rico. It was an absolute honor to be one of these students.
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By Lilli Albucker
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2/21/19
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An $8.776 million drainage improvement project for the Village of Lawrence is expected to have a shovel hitting dirt in the summer of 2020, according to Nassau County officials and the engineers from the firm LKMA.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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Barely three months after Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Ann Pedersen, then the Lawrence School District’s assistant superintendent for Academic Affairs received a phone call on Jan. 16, 2013 that nearly made her forget that horrendous storm and the damage it inflicted on the Five Towns.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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Brandon Rebel is a typical high school freshman, very young looking, smallish and surrounded by friends. But over the course of two days Rebel created four GIFs for the overhauled Lawrence School District website.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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More than two months after several first responders teamed up to help revive basketball referee Larry Miller. The Inwood resident suffered a heart attack a Dec. 1 game. Lawrence School District officials honored them on Feb. 6. Miller, a ref for 48 years and a retired police officer, collapsed in the third quarter of a home game against Locust Valley.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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After the departure of Alan Bernstein as headmaster of the private Lawrence Woodmere Academy in the wake of two sex scandals involving teachers, school officials made several changes, adding two new trustees, partnering with them on a new long-term strategy and naming a new head of school.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/14/19
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