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The nonprofit group Reclaim New York filed a lawsuit on June 7 in Nassau County Supreme Court against the Elmont School District for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Law …
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By Steve Smirti
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6/15/16
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Hundreds of people gathered at the Alva T. Stanforth Sports Complex near Elmont Library on Saturday to kick off the Elmont/Belmont Day Parade, marking the unofficial start of summer and the lead-up …
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By Steve Smirti
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6/8/16
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In West Hempstead, Karen Brohm, the current school board president, is running for another term unopposed. Rudy Schindler, a trustee for six years, is also without an opponent. Both were instrumental in the passage of the district’s recent $35.5 million bond, which will facilitate much-needed capital improvements to its properties as well as several of its programs.
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5/12/16
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I grew up in Yaphank, a 14-square-mile hamlet in Suffolk County, virtually in the middle of Long Island. (The community to the north is, in fact, called Middle Island.) I remember . . .
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5/12/16
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For the past several years, the West Hempstead School District had been discussing the demolition of the Marion M. Delaney School, which houses the Gersh Academy, a school for children on the autism spectrum. The building is in dire need of repairs, and the thinking among district officials was that athletic fields could be built in its place.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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4/6/16
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Sometime in December, without any warning, a school crossing guard who had been stationed at West Hempstead High School for years, at the intersection of Nassau Boulevard and Johnson Lane, was taken away.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/3/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce …
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/23/15
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Patricia Sullivan-Kriss, a lifetime Rockville Centre resident and the current superintendent of the Hauppauge School District, was unanimously appointed West Hempstead’s new superintendent, following the retirement of Superintendent John Hogan. Her four-year appointment will begin next July 1.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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11/18/15
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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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