The start of the Nassau County football season is less than a week away.
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Tony Bellissimo
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9/2/10
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The Kennedy High School varsity football team has spent most of the off-season in the weight room and on the track. Last Saturday, however, the team took time to build something beside strength and muscle; they built teamwork in the pursuit of a good cause.
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6/29/10
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If any team were to define dynasty, it would be the Calhoun High School girls' badminton squad. The team, led by coach Gregg Muscarella, is 138-5 in matches over the past nine years. In that time, the Colts have won six county championships, as well as eight Conference I titles.
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Scott Brinton
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6/15/10
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Thirty-eight years after Joe Corea began his four-decade career as Calhoun High School's head baseball coach, he can still rattle off most of the names on his starting lineup from his very first year -–– 1972.
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Scott Brinton
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6/9/10
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The Calhoun girls’ varsity badminton team recently won the Nassau County Championship with a 4-3 victory over Great Neck South. The Calhoun girls finished the season with a 15-0 record –– and their second straight championship. Team Captain Christina Strezenec won the overall singles title, beating out all other Nassau badminton players in a two-day tournament. With this win, Strezenec became the only player in Calhoun history to win four county titles playing a varsity sport.
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5/21/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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Colorful tulips attract thousands each year to Hofstra University for one of Long Island’s enduring traditions, the Hofstra University Dutch Festival.
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Karen Bloom
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4/28/10
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The Valley Stream Central/Memorial PTSA will hold its annual Scholarship Dinner Dance and Fashion Show. on Thursday, May 6. It will take place at the Coral House, 70 Milburn Ave. in Baldwin, from 7 to 11 p.m.
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4/27/10
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As incidents of bullying and cyber-bullying gain notoriety nationwide, parents close to home start to look at their childrens’ schools to see how they stack up.
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Andrew Hackmack and Matt Hampton
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4/14/10
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Anyone who’s read “Lord of the Flies” knows the great capacity children have for savagery. Still, the recent suicide of a 15-year-old high school girl, following months of brutal bullying, shocks us — hopefully into action.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/8/10
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