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Firefighters from several South Shore departments took part in the first-ever Clam Eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar last year.
How many clams can you eat in a sitting?
World champion competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi will coach members of the Island Park, Long Beach, Lakeview, Baldwin, Point Lookout and East Rockaway fire departments on the finer points of clam … more
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Dupuis opened SpaVie, on Milburn Avenue, in December. She now looks to provide people with a peaceful setting where they can relax.
Cancer, Sandy can’t stop her
“You regret what you haven’t done,” Linda Dupuis, a 15-year Baldwin resident, said about her new business, SpaVie. Despite the many obstacles that life has thrown in her way in … more
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Veterinarian Dr. Lee Gelfand, of Merrick, above, struggled for months to restore his business, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Long Beach, after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. He was forced to take roughly $750,000 in private loans to keep the clinic afloat. Above, Gelfand at the hospital shortly after the storm.
Businesses slowly recover after Sandy
Rolling River Day Camp sits on five acres along Mill River, which snakes through East Rockaway and Bay Park on the way to East Rockaway Channel. The river can be a friend. It forms an idyllic backdrop for a camp replete with swimming pools, playgrounds and ball fields. It can also be a foe. During a nor’easter in 2010, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the river inundated much of the camp, wreaking havoc. more
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Do I have to elevate my house?
Q. I got a letter from my village that says my house needs to be lifted, and that it’s mandatory because I was lucky enough to be 50 percent damaged by Sandy. more
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Engineer Andrew Braum, of Wantagh, inspected many South Shore homes after Hurricane Sandy, and said some of his reports were later altered.
Engineer fights for Sandy victims
After Hurricane Sandy struck, engineers visited thousands of damaged homes on the South Shore to evaluate the damage and determine whether the storm had caused structural damage — decisions that were critical to the process of finalizing how much money insurance agencies would pay out to their clients. more
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No sleeping below ground
Q. Our home was flooded in Hurricane Sandy, and even though most people didn’t get a “Sandy Repair permit,” we were told we needed one . . . more
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Pope Francis, Long Island and water
Pope Francis issued an encyclical last month that focuses on our responsibility for and connections to the environment and the poor. I’ve only read the first half of “Laudato Si’" . . . more
Meeting June 16 on FEMA’s reopening of Sandy flood insurance claims
Tuesday, June 16, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Long Beach Hotel, 405 East Broadway, Long Beach more
Sandy resource fair May 26
A Hurricane Sandy Storm Recovery Resource Fair will be held at Kennedy High School in Bellmore on Tuesday, May 26, from 5 to 9 p.m. more
Hurricane Sandy devastated Michigan Street in Long Beach, where Bob Kaible and his wife, Deborah Raimey, owned a rental property. A false engineering report claimed that damage to their property resulted not from flooding, but earth movement.
FEMA to reopen 144,000 Sandy claims
Bob Kaible and his wife, Deborah Raimey, owned a yellow-clapboard rental bungalow on Michigan Street, behind their two-story Minnesota Avenue home, in Long Beach’s West End, when Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29, 2012, submerging the narrow blocks surrounding the properties in six feet of saltwater. more
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