While the weather outside was frightful, the books shared were delightful as elementary schools celebrated reading by inviting guest readers into their classrooms. The guest readers included …
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2/14/13
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Recently I sent a very dear friend a Kindle copy of Louise Erdrich’s most recent novel, “The Round House.”
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1/3/13
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Taking a cue from the longstanding Monday-night Summer Gazebo Readings, the principals of the Oceanside elementary schools decided to host their own summer readings on the Schoolhouse Green for students in kindergarten through third grade.
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By Alex Costello
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7/18/12
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It is said that there are only two stories: Boy Meets Girl or A Stranger Comes to Town. The runaway best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” is both of these and then some.
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6/7/12
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Televisions have become such a staple in American culture that it’s almost hard to imagine our lives without them.
But families of School 9E in Oceanside were able to find out what that would …
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3/21/12
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Reading books, many will say, is a lost art these days, especially with kids.
But Oceanside teens proved the naysayers wrong this summer by coming out and reading to young children at the …
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8/3/11
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The Oceanside Summer Gazebo Readings celebrated Independence Day in its annual fashion — with patriotic readings by representatives and members of the community, along with a good ol’ fashioned …
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7/14/11
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The market is down, oil prices are up, the Arab world is imploding and I have this annoying pain in my shoulder. What to do but pick up a good book?
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6/10/11
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Island Park kicked off the annual People As Reading Partners (PARP) in grand style on Jan. 13.
Herman Parish, author of some of the very popular Amelia Bedelia series of books, about the …
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1/19/11
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Humbled and honored, Oceanside Summer Gazebo Readings founder Tony Iovino will receive the Long Island Writers’ Guild Community Service Award this Sunday, Dec. 5, at Manor East in Massapequa. …
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TOM STEINERT
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12/1/10
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