New York state must do more to support small businesses, Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages told members of the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce last week.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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10/30/13
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Breast cancer victims are our mothers, our sisters, our friends and, yes, sometimes our fathers and brothers.
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10/17/13
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Many South Shore homeowners are breathing easier thanks to Governor Cuomo’s decision last week to use money from the N.Y. State Housing Recovery Program to compensate those whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Sandy, but whose flood insurance claims were rejected by FEMA because the damage had been caused by “earth movement” rather than directly by floodwaters.
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10/10/13
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A city-run child care facility was issued eight violations in July, including one for the corporal punishment of a child by an employee who was subsequently fired, and another for failure to report …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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9/25/13
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An Oceanside woman who is a former nurse at Franklin Hospital in Valley Stream was awarded nearly $5 million in civil damages on Sept. 9 in a case against a former psychiatric patient who beat her …
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By Howard Schwach and Andrew Hackmack
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9/17/13
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Last season was another magical one for South Side’s girls’ soccer program as the Lady Cyclones repeated as New York State, Long Island and Nassau Class A champions, and in the process went undefeated with a mark of 18-0-1.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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9/17/13
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The North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League’s 9- and 10-year-old girls’ travel softball team, the Lady Rebels, are this year’s state softball champions in their age division. Not only that, but they finished the season in third place in the entire Northeast.
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By Brian Racow
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8/28/13
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials spent recent weeks poring over reams of state English Language Arts and math test data for the seventh and eighth grades, looking for patterns in student performance, according to Caryn Blum, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and a former Merrick Avenue Middle School principal.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/28/13
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By Alex Costello
acostello@liherald.com
New York state released the results of its new tests last week and, as expected, scores for students all over the state, including Rockville Centre, …
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By Alex Costello
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8/15/13
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State test scores plummeted to historic lows in most school districts in Nassau County and New York, a result that was expected following the implementation of a more rigorous curriculum.
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By Scott Brinton, Julie Mansmann and Andrew Hackmack, sbrinton@liherald.com
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8/14/13
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