Cheers of, “They’re here! They’re here!” rang out across the field at Hillel Day Camp as Brandon Nimmo and Robert Gsellman, an outfielder and a relief pitcher, respectively, for the New York Mets arrived in Lawrence on July 20.
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By Tyler Marko
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7/26/18
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The Lawrence School District requires students to complete 20 hours of community service to graduate, and the Hewlett-Woodmere district rewards students who complete 120 hours over the course of four years with a silver cord at graduation.
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By Tyler Marko
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7/26/18
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Compliments of the Dime Community Bank, a group of 50 Kulanu members visited MCU Park to see the Brooklyn Cyclones play the Staten Island Yankees on July 8. All were said to be excited to witness the return of New York Mets’ star pitcher Noah Syndergaard to the mound after suffering an injury in May.
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7/19/18
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Yes, it's April on the calendar, but apparently Mother Nature refuses to cooperate as a fast moving snowstorm could drop up to 6 inches across Long Island and the Five Towns.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/2/18
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Helene Kaufman née Popover, of Keene, New Hampshire, was a former hospital administrator who volunteered at her synagogue for 30 years and lived in Brooklyn and Woodmere. She died on Sept. 11, at Maplewood Nursing Home in Westmoreland. She was 93.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/17
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For the third year in a row campers at Hillel Day Camp were treated to a day of fun with a pair of New York Mets players when infielders Wilmer Flores and Bronxite T.J. Rivera visited on July 21.
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By Tyler Marko
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7/27/17
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Growing up in Bayside, Queens in the 1950s, Jon Pessah thought he was going to play center field for the New York Yankees.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/23/17
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At the Laid Back Festival on July 23 at the Jones Beach Theater, Syd Mandelbaum was set up at a Rock and Wrap it Up! booth for the Cedarhurst-based, anti-poverty think tank he founded 26 years ago.
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By Diana Colapietro
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8/17/16
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Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra left school in the eighth grade to help support his family. He grew up poor . . .
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10/1/15
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For the past six months, the news has been consistently dominated by one subject. Not the war in Iraq. Not the NFL scandal. All have been competitors with the biggest item of the times . . .
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10/2/14
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