While heading home from school, students and school bus drivers rely on the buses’ stop signs to make each stop safe. Occasionally, a driver on the road, heading toward a stopped bus or coming …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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Rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water headed away from shore that aren’t easy for recreational swimmers to spot. Nervous swimmers who find themselves caught in a rip …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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Long Beach is synonymous with surfing. People running into the water, jumping on their surfboards and riding the waves in the sun is a typical summer across the city.
Surf for All, one of Long …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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The Long Beach City Council met July 5 to discuss a variety of issues regarding the community. Topics varied from electric vehicle power stations to concerns about the Empire Wind Project — per …
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By Sean Kennedy
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7/16/23
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The Long Beach Police Department hosted a gun buyback event for the first time in six years Saturday, July 8. They collected the weapons at Evangel Revival Community Church in the North Park area, …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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Q. We are in a quandary about insulation. Our house was built in 1948, and isn’t insulated well. We decided to add a master bedroom and kitchen extension and insulate as much as we can.
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By Monte Leeper
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7/13/23
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Q. We completely rebuilt in 1996, and are ready to retire and sell. Our real estate agent told us they checked our permit records and it was never signed off.
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By Monte Leeper
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7/13/23
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Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school.
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7/13/23
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If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . .
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By Arnold W. Drucker
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7/13/23
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Timing will be a key issue when it comes to the state’s long-planned congestion-pricing plan, which is scheduled to start sometime in 2024.
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7/13/23
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