Lawrence Woodmere Academy’s boys’ varsity basketball team won the Private Schools Athletic Association (PSAA) league championship with a 71-56 victory over Evangel Christian School on Feb. 16 at Long Island Lutheran High School.
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2/22/12
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An Independent Coach school bus taking 14 Lawrence School District students to school Wednesday morning at approximately 9 a.m., and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus collided at the intersection of Central Avenue and McGlynn Place in Cedarhurst.
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JEFF BESSEN and ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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10/12/11
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In 2004, the Brennan Center for Justice and New York University’s School of Law released a report describing the New York Legislature as “the most dysfunctional state [government] in the nation.” It was an excellent critique and its findings were well founded.
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By Hal Peterson
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7/26/11
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A little Hollywood glitz and glamour came to Bellmore last week for the 14th Annual Long Island International Film Expo, which boasted eight days of independent films from around the world. The festival kicked off with a preview night on July 7 and an opening-night party the following evening.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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7/20/11
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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6/30/11
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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending.
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Judy Rattner
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3/9/11
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In less than a week, the mayor’s race will be decided and it will be known who will lead Valley Stream for the next four years.
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ANDREW HACKMACK
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3/9/11
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The Declaration of Independence was first published on July 6, 1776, in a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Evening Post. We are proud to commemorate that high point in American journalism by reprinting that historic document.
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7/1/10
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On April 20, an explosion off the Gulf Coast on an oil rig leased by British Petroleum marked the unfortunate beginning of the worst oil spill in our nation’s history.
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Al D'Amato
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6/3/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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