They line up every day inside an off-white office resembling a trailer across the street from the Long Beach Medical Center: two neat rows of average-looking people, waiting patiently, as if they are there to buy a cup of coffee from the local deli.
But they are there to save their lives.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/14/10
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The 3rd annual Building Homes for Heroes 5K Run/Walk will take place on Sunday morning, April 18 at Hewlett Point Beach Park in Bay Park/East Rockaway. The race will begin at 9 a.m. sharp. Race …
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Mary Malloy
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4/14/10
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Ronan Tynan’s smooth tenor voice has filled St. Raymond’s Church in East Rockaway once before, for a funeral. He is returning there on April 24 for a happier occasion. One of the most …
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Mary Malloy
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4/14/10
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Children’s cries of “Two, four, six, eight…do not incinerate!” were heard outside Freeport Village Hall on Thursday when members of the Levy-Lakeside Elementary School PTA, with Merrick and Freeport residents, staged a protest against a proposal to build a waste-to-energy incinerator in south Freeport, near the Merrick border.
It was the second such protest in less than a week.
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Scott Brinton
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4/10/10
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Joanne Borgella, who competed on season seven of "American Idol" in 2008, stopped by in Mineola to congratulate East Meadow's Girl Scout Troop No. 1108 on April 1. The cadets …
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Mike Caputo
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4/8/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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Nikla Hendricks, of West Hempstead, was one of two winners of Hofstra University's Roy Cacciatore Economic Development Endowed Scholarship this year. The Long …
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4/8/10
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The Town of Hempstead sanitation department held the year's first Stop Throwing Out Pollutants collection day on Saturday, March 20 in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. …
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4/8/10
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Students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at West Hempstead Middle School made the High Honor Roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year.
6th Grade
Billy …
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4/8/10
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Authorities said a former inmate attacked a corrections officer at the Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow, and bit him in the process. Sharrief …
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4/8/10
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