Nassau County recently announced that it finished 2020 with a surplus of $75 million (subject to some adjustment, but it’s a reasonable number to work with). Sounds like good news, right? Not so fast.
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By Howard Kopel
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4/15/21
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For longtime Baldwinite Richard Ginsburg, taking on a new role as chair of the Nassau Community College Theatre and Dance Department turned out to be more challenging than he anticipated, because he …
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By Bridget Downes
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3/26/21
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Part one in a series of photo stories on the Nassau County Police Academy in North Massapequa. Recruits’ names were not given to protect their privacy.
It’s 9 a.m. on a recent …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/25/21
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Nassau County has faced unprecedented issues over the past year, with the loss of more than 3,000 residents to the novel coronavirus and renewed calls for police reform. But through it all, County …
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By Melissa Koenig
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3/25/21
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Forty people have been indicted in a widespread, multi-million-dollar cocaine-dealing ring that operated out of Hempstead and Rosedale — including at two unlicensed day-care …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/15/21
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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum will become a Covid-19 vaccination site, County Executive Laura Curran announced over the weekend.
“We’re focused on continuing to ramp up our …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/7/21
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As of 8:30 p.m. Sunday, the following schools districts within the Heralds' coverage area reported on their websites that they would close on Monday, Feb. 1, because of an impending snow storm that …
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1/31/21
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At the end of 2020, Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, of Freeport, joined the student group Long Island Laboring Against Covid-19 to donate 15,000 masks and other personal protective …
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By Ronny Reyes and Bridget Downes
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1/21/21
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The Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that donates to humanitarian causes, awarded the Girl Scouts of Nassau County a $5,000 grant in recognition of Girl Scout …
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By Ronny Reyes
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12/26/20
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News about an FDA approval for the coronavirus vaccine is monumental, but we must not allow it to lull us into a false sense of complacency. This war isn’t over . . .
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By Laura Curran
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12/17/20
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