“It’s the right spot to be,” Mary Ann Marino said of a bench on the Long Beach boardwalk that she and her family dedicated to her firefighter son, Ken, soon after he was killed at the scorched World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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9/10/09
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For parents and children alike, summer offers a respite from hectic school mornings. But after Labor Day, when children in the Long Beach School District head back to school, the manic mornings return.
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ARIELLA MONTI
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9/10/09
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Did you know that Sutton Place restaurant-bar on West Park Avenue was once a library? Or that the Magnolia condos across the street were an elementary school? Perhaps you’re unaware that Lindell School was once the high school.
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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9/3/09
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At their August meeting, members of the Long Beach-Island Park Brokers Council had a roundtable talk about various goings-on in their selling areas. Among their topics were a recent New York Times article on shelved building projects that referenced the still-undeveloped Superblock on Broadway; a letter City Manager Charles Theofan mailed to residents about enforcing illegal-rental laws; proposals for metered parking and group rentals.
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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9/3/09
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Adell Hardwick, 21, of Long Beach was arrested and charged with attempted rape in Long Beach on Aug. 24.
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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9/3/09
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"It's a boys' club," laughed officer Judy Parisi of the Long Beach Police Department, who is one of five female officers on the force. "It's definitely not girly."
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ARIELLA MONTI
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9/3/09
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Sept. 10
City Hall Plaza – if rain, at Long Beach Public Library
6:45 p.m. - NY’s Finest (NYC Police Dept. Big Band)
8:15 p.m. - Kerry Kearney Band
Sept. 11
Long Beach …
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9/3/09
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That end-of-summer tradition in Long Beach is fast approaching. The “City By The Sea” becomes a mecca for jazz lovers, beginning Thursday night, Sept. 10, when the Long Beach Jazz festival, now in its seventh year, takes center stage. A world class cadre of musicians gather at Long Beach Public library, and other venues, for four days devoted to jazz in all its forms.
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Karen Bloom
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9/3/09
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In September 2005, Army Sgt. Michael Carrasquillo was on an air assault mission in Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He was attempting to pull an injured member of his unit to safety when he was hit with a barrage of bullets that penetrated his bicep, chest, shoulder, stomach and hand.
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ARIELLA MONTI
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9/3/09
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