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How easily we forget that Long Island was settled by Dutch immigrants in the mid-1600s and by the English in the 1700s. Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants arrived in abundance in the early 1900s.
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9/30/10
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After one very hot summer, fall has at last arrived, bringing with it cool, crisp air, football and street fairs. Fall festivals have long been a South Shore tradition, perfectly suited to our many small-town downtowns.
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9/24/10
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Fall is fast approaching. It’s not only back-to-school time, but also back-to-sports time, when thousands of South Shore children can be found on football, soccer, lacrosse and even baseball and softball fields.
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9/22/10
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It used to be that when we sent our children, our precious little cargo, off to their first day of school, all we had to say was, “Look both ways when you cross the street” or “Don’t talk to strangers” or “Come right home after school.”
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9/22/10
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Sept. 11 anniversary calls for peace, not divisiveness
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It has been nine years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and ground zero still sits fallow, like a scarred-over knife wound in the heart of downtown Manhattan.
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9/9/10
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There are only a few days left until the Sept. 14 primaries, which will determine who will be on the ballot on Election Day, Nov. 2.
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9/3/10
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Residents, police officers and local government officials are noticing a troubling trend in many South Shore communities: destruction caused by teenagers.
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8/26/10
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With all the talk about the Lighthouse project and whether it will ever come to fruition, it’s easy to think that it is the be-all and end-all for development in Nassau County.
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8/20/10
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In a move that has confounded local school officials and is bound to confuse and upset many parents, State Education Department leaders recently announced that they were raising the raw scores that determine proficiency levels on the standardized tests taken by students in third through eighth grades.
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8/12/10
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Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York.
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8/5/10
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