The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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Long Beach residents and visitors are ready to welcome the annual tradition that is the Long Beach Jazz Festival. The “City By The Sea” will reverberate with some vibrant sounds, beginning Thursday, Sept. 19, and concluding Sunday, Sept. 22.
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By Karen Bloom
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9/11/13
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Seated in his expansive, brightly lit office on the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s second floor, Dr. Lawrence Smith, the school’s founding dean, appears at home, a smile etched across his face as he speaks of the school’s role in transforming medical education.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/23/13
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The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads.
Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/12/13
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Within a few days after you read this, New York state will have a new budget. It will mark the earliest budget passage in the past 30 years.
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3/28/13
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Senator Dean Skelos invited local residents to nominate friends, coworkers and neighborhood leaders whose outstanding work on behalf of our communities makes them …
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3/6/13
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate majority coalition leaders Dean Skelos and Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver! You led while others squirmed.
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2/21/13
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Last week, Governor Cuomo unveiled his 2013-14 budget. He proposed to increase school aid statewide by 3 percent while keeping overall state spending growth under 2 percent.
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1/31/13
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A new coalition of leaders in the New York State Senate is making its resolutions for change in the new year.
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By Alex Camarda
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1/3/13
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Before I get into the goings-on in Washington and Albany, I think it is more important to touch on the heartbreaking tragedy that took place last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., not far across the Sound from all of us.
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12/20/12
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