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The Lynbrook VFW post personnel prepared to show the colors at Lynbrook's Patriots' Day last year
Memorial Day parade routes and events schedule for Lynbrook, East Rockaway
Here are the routes and events scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend in Lynbrook and East Rockaway. more
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Lynbrook Elks Lodge members performed for veterans from various VA hospitals at a special event last month.
Lynbrook Elks perform on night dedicated to veterans
Veterans from across Long Island and New York City sang along to performances of songs such as “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang, “Oh What a Night” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and “Crocodile Rock” by Elton John at the Elks Lodge in Lynbrook last month. more
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Hitching yourself to Donald Trump’s star
If the White House calls, just hang up. Put down the phone, run out of the house as if your hair were on fire, change your number and move to a remote town in Saskatchewan . . . more
Eva Casale set off on her first of seven marathons in Huntington on April 21.
Glen Cover’s week of marathons for vets
When people talk about the seven marathons that Glen Cove resident Eva Casale runs in as many days, they invariably speak with equal parts astonishment, exhaustion on her behalf, and admiration. But … more
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Glen Cove resident William Joe Johnson, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, will be honored at the Heroes Among Us charity dinner.
Organization to host benefit dinner to honor the ‘Heroes Among Us’
Two weeks after graduating from Locust Valley High School Angelo Cervasio shipped off to boot camp to join the Air Force. He served with the U.S. Military during Operation Southern Watch, designated … more
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Joseph Willard Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson, was a classical composer. His music, which has not been played locally since his death 10 years ago, can be heard this weekend in Oyster Bay.
‘A Weekend With Willard’ comes to Oyster Bay
Joseph Willard Roosevelt came from a family that excelled. The Roosevelt legacy includes two presidents, activists, servicemen, a naturalist, politicians, writers, a governor and a Noble Peace Prize … more
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Rita Johnson, the new Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3350 auxiliary president, right, and Vice President Maureen Stock took their oaths of office.
East Rockaway VFW Post 3350’s auxiliary is reborn
Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3350 and the families of service members crowded into the VFW Post 3350 in East Rockaway on Feb. 1 to watch as the post’s auxiliary was reinstated. more
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Longtime Lynbrook Police Sgt. Ronald Fleury was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, last February. The Lynbrook Police Benevolent Association hosted a fundraiser in his honor on Jan. 31.
Lynbrook police fundraiser aids longtime sergeant battling ALS
Longtime Lynbrook Police Sgt. Ronald Fleury was holding groceries as he got out of his car in the driveway of his Lindenhurst home in December 2016, and in an instant his life was irrevocably changed. more
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Cmdr. Coy Richardson, left and 1st Vice Cmdr. David Cockerel right, saluted Bonnie Barbosa, Gerard Barbosa’s daughter, after presenting her with special posthumous recognition for her father’s contributions to the military, and to American Legion William Clinton Story Post 342.
Freeport American Legion honors East Meadow comrade
Gerard “Jerry” Barbosa, of East Meadow, who survived Japanese warplane attacks while stationed on the USS Raleigh as a gunner’s mate at Pearl Harbor, and the D-Day landings later in … more
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Charlie Franza, 94, reminisced about two women who captured his heart: his first love, Mary, and his wife, Nettie.
Haunted by a long-ago love
Charlie Franza often shot his subjects from afar. A U.S. Army Air Forces veteran, Franza, who grew up in Philadelphia, enlisted in 1942 and served as a photo lab technician at Mitchel Air Force Base in Hempstead. He guarded highly sensitive information and was sworn to secrecy. more
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