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Well, we were warned.
For many years, at the start of each hurricane season, the people of Long Island were reminded that a major hurricane could hit our area.
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8/28/13
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Publishers Clifford and Stuart Richner announced July 10 that Richner
Communications has agreed to acquire L&M Publications, a Long Island weekly newspaper group that includes the Merrick Life, Bellmore Life, Freeport-Baldwin Leader and the Wantagh-Seaford Citizen. Both Richner Communications and L&M are privately held companies, and terms of the sale were not announced. The sale is expected to close this quarter.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/12/13
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I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/4/13
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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst.
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2/28/13
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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.
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2/26/13
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Fourteen Herald Community Newspaper executives, editors and reporters bundled up in heavy coats and woolen hats and boarded the Capt. Lou VII in Freeport to take a two-hour tour of the waterways south of the village in search of harbor seals last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/13
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The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/9/12
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Two young, dynamic chamber ensembles grace local stages this Mother's Day weekend.
The outdoors also beckons, with a Woodland Widlflowers Walk at Mu†tontown Preserve on Sunday.
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5/9/12
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Some 270 volunteers grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat last Saturday to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to clean up more than 18 tons of rubber tires, Styrofoam buoys, aluminum cans and plastic bottles trapped amid the reeds and rushes.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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3/28/12
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From vocal journeys to animal adventures, there's much to do to escape the January blahs this weekend.
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1/11/12
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