Three weeks ago, Tara Brenke, 17, and her brother, Xavier, 16, arrived in the U.S. from Haiti with little more than the clothes on their backs. Last month's earthquake had destroyed everything around them — their Port-au-Prince home, their high school, even the medical college Tara was planning to attend next year. Their parents — who survived the quake — decided that it would be best for the teens to come to America and live with a cousin, Erick Brenke, a mortgage banker, and his fiancee, Crystal Pearl, an earth science teacher, in their Island Park home.
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Judy Rattner
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2/17/10
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For the last four years, Valley Stream resident Ivy McKee has petitioned the Central High School District Board of Education to form a district fencing team. Her daughter, Erica, 17, has fenced for a decade, while her youngest daughter, Niki, is currently fencing in the Junior Olympics.
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Anthony Bottan
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2/17/10
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Carreras will kick for Marist
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Anthony Carreras, a senior at Valley Stream South High School, recently signed his letter of intent to play soccer next fall at Division 1 Marist College on an athletic scholarship
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2/17/10
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For the first time since 1996, Long Beach sits on top of the Nassau County wrestling mountain.
The Marines had seven semifinalists, including 96-pound champion Mark Raghunandan, and finished …
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Tony Bellissimo
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2/17/10
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The South High School Parents Club will be holding a raffle next month to raise money for students. The prize is a $5,000 Disney gift card.
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2/17/10
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The Long Beach High School Theater Department took audiences on a trip down memory lane to the days of poodle skirts and pompadours, when they presented a production of the Tony Award-winning …
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2/11/10
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The following students from Rockville Centre were named to the Kellenberg Memorial High School honor roll for the first trimester of the 2009-10 school year:
Gianina Elizabeth Alagia
Katherine …
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2/10/10
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The Valley Stream Central High School District may lose about $2.5 million in state aid and Superintendent Dr. Marc Bernstein suggested a few scenarios on how to close the gap in the upcoming 2010-11 budget.
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Anthony Bottan
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2/10/10
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Lori Ying, a South Side High School senior, was surprised last month to find out that she had been named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. But when she learned last week that she had been selected as one of 40 finalists in the prestigious research competition, she was shocked.
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Alex Costello
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2/3/10
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A team from South Side High School will participate in Round 1 of the television quiz show, “The Challenge,” competing against students from Plainedge High School.
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2/3/10
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