What would you grab if you had to evacuate your home?
After family members and pets, many people would say their photo albums, but in many emergencies people don’t even have time to grab their most treasured memories.
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By Tyler Marko
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10/20/17
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Police, elected officials and community members gathered on Sheridan Avenue, immediately off Broadway in Hewlett for the grand opening of the renovated 4th Precinct building on Tuesday.
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By Tyler Marko
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10/20/17
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In any hurricane, no matter the category, a wall of water surges inland, flooding streets and homes. During Hurricane Sandy, which struck during a full moon on Oct. 29, 2012, many South Shore streets were inundated . . .
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10/19/17
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After the New York District Kiwanis tractor trailer returns from Texas and dropping off supplies for victims of Hurricane Harvey, it head to Florida and bring provisions to the victims of Hurricane Irma.
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10/13/17
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Girl Scout troops 717 and 737 — girls from the Hewlett and Lawrence school districts — sold nearly 30 gallons of homemade fresh-squeezed lemonade, and homemade chocolate lollipops and collected more than $700 at the Arts Below Sunrise festival in Hewlett and Woodmere on Sept. 17.
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10/13/17
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I had planned to write about heart disease in this column. That can wait. Over the weekend, I grew increasingly angry with President Trump because of his inept — and, frankly, inane . . .
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10/5/17
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Nearly five years have passed since Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, flooding thousands of homes and businesses and causing . . .
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10/5/17
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Projects totaling $20.3 million that aim to mitigate flooding are expected to begin in the Five Towns in 2019, representatives of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery said at a presentation at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on Sept. 27.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/5/17
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President Trump may have made waves again with his decision to work with Democrats on a bipartisan agreement to raise the federal debt limit and provide hurricane relief for Texas, but in so doing, he may have . . .
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9/22/17
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If you speak with Hurricane Sandy victims, many will say that a decisive moment came in the recovery effort: the moment when the rest of the world returned to normal while they were left fighting to rebuild.
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9/21/17
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