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Three residents who have lived in Inwood for a collective 59 years have joined forces to organize the eighth annual celebration of the Town of Hempstead hamlet. This year the event is dedicated to a longtime advocate of the community that was once known as Near Rockaway and Westerville.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/11/21
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More than 150 Five Towns residents gathered at an Aug. 4 meeting of the Cedarhurst village board in the Lawrence High School cafeteria to voice their opposition to a proposed development that would bring three large residential buildings to an area off Rockaway Turnpike and Pearsall Avenue, in Cedarhurst, where there are currently several vacant lots, an abandoned warehouse, retail and smaller residential buildings.
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By Daniel Robertson
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8/11/21
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Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of modern Jewish history at Emory University in Atlanta is expected to be named President Joe Biden’s anti-Semitism envoy a State Department position that was elevated to ambassador level earlier this yar by Congress.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/29/21
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On one of the two benches outside the administration building in Inwood Park on July 23, Teaneck, New Jersey resident Jonah Ganchrov surprised Zahava Strock, of Far Rockaway, with a handmade sign that read: Zahava will you marry me?
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/29/21
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Two men were arrested and one was charged with possession of a weapon after Nassau County’s Bureau of Special Operations made a traffic stop in Inwood at 3:15 p.m. on July 14, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/15/21
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Leaving the Five Towns Shopping Center from the west exit on a recent Friday morning required waiting through two traffic signal cycles and cutting off a pickup truck to avoid being hit by vehicles headed to Queens, as traffic on the south side of Rockaway Boulevard, on its way to the Five Towns, obstructed the intersection.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/1/21
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Elmer Gutierrez, a known MS-13 street gang member, pleaded guilty on June 23 for taking part in the December 2018 murder of two young men in Far Rockaway and Lawrence.
Gutierrez, 21, also known as …
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/24/21
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St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway has opened a state-of-the-art behavioral health wing in its emergency department.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/17/21
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Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Early Childhood students learned about the five senses – hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching – through the body’s ears, eyes, nose, tongue and hands, throughout the last week in May.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/11/21
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The roughly 33-foot long St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s new mobile health unit stood idle in the Far Rockaway facility’s parking lot on May 19, but its engine is expected to be revved up to bring at least 15 different medical services to people on the Rockaway Peninsula.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/20/21
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