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When turkeys fly, you know it’s Turkey Shoot time.
It happens this time every year: Anyone passing Oceanside High School on the morning of Nov. 23 would have seen hundreds of frozen turkeys …
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Betsy Transom
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12/1/10
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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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Oceanside School 5 held its first annual Turkey Hunt on Nov. 17 to collect frozen turkeys to be donated.
The collected turkeys were added to those collected by Oceanside High School during its …
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11/24/10
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“Would you know if your child was using heroin?” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice asks at the end of a new public service announcement. The PSA, along with an educational website, is the latest joint effort by the district attorney and Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to alert parents to the growing heroin problem on Long Island.
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Deirdre Krasula
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10/13/10
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Weekend service on the Long Island Rail Road will be extremely limited in the coming weeks as the LIRR Modernization Project brings signal and switch-control work to Jamaica Station.
The agency …
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Lee Landor
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10/13/10
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Updated: 2:30 p.m.Nassau County Police and the U.S. Marshals Service cordoned off the Bellmore Post Office and surrounding streets at around 11 a.m. today, shutting down Merrick Road for several blocks to the east and west. According to police, a woman who U.S. marshals were tracking turned up at the mail facility with a bottle marked "sodium cyanide."
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Scott Brinton and Deirdre Krasula
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10/1/10
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Weekend service on the Long Island Rail Road will be extremely limited throughout October and November as the LIRR Modernization Project brings signal and switch-control work to Jamaica …
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Lee Landor
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9/28/10
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Suddenly, I was captivated by the darkness below on a steamy August day. I could only stare as tiny gray pill bugs crept up from the recesses of the decaying leaf pile. Then I noticed an earthworm slithering to the surface and looping back to the underworld. This place was alive.
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Scott Brinton
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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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Economists tell us that the Great Recession of recent years is over. The economy is growing again, albeit ever so slowly. Long Island’s jobless rate has dropped to below 7 percent. Housing prices in a number of area neighborhoods are starting — mind you, starting — to creep up. And we hear anecdotal evidence that people are beginning to spend again.
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7/30/10
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