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The Fourth of July is celebrated annually with fireworks and barbecues across the country. Merrick has a tradition that few communities follow.
Each year, the Merrick Historical Society offers local folks the chance to read the Declaration of Independence line by line, as it was read by colonists in 1776. This year’s reading took place at the gazebo at Merrick’s Long Island Rail Road station. Lawrence Garfinkel, the historical society president, led the reading.
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By David Weingrad
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7/6/11
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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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To the Editor:
Think about the Merricks in 1776: farmland stretching as far as you can see, interrupted by a few roads and the stagecoach stop, located where Meadowbrook Road branches off and becomes Babylon Turnpike.
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6/23/11
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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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Runners from across Long Island turned out for the annual Bellmore Striders Independence Day run on Sunday, July 4. Some 559 runners competed in the four-mile race that morning. A one-mile youth run was also held.
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Deirdre Krasula
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7/6/10
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With temperatures reaching into the 90s, local residents circled around the gazebo in Veterans Memorial Plaza in downtown Merrick on the Fourth of July to read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety.
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Scott Brinton
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7/4/10
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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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As is the longstanding tradition, the Historical Society of the Merricks will host its annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July at the Merrick gazebo in Veterans Memorial Plaza in downtown Merrick at 10 a.
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6/18/10
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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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