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Red Robertson, of the Oceanside Fire Department, with the sapling of the tree that survived the Sept. 11 attacks, at a ceremony at the Schoolhouse Green last Sunday.
New growth from the darkest day
A sapling from a tree that survived the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center has found a new home in Oceanside. The tree, a Callery pear, had been reduced to an 8-foot-tall … more
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Healing the gaping wound that Sandy left
The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday. more
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This month the focus is on breast cancer
Nassau County has one of the nation’s highest rates of breast cancer, and more than 1,200 women in the county were diagnosed with the disease from 2004 to 2008, according to the State Department of Health’s New York State Cancer Registry. more
A man of ‘respect and dignity’
Oceanside resident Peter Stone, a Holocaust survivor who used to speak to Long Island students about his experiences, died on April 6, of lung disease. He was 80. Stone was born on May 13, 1931, … more
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Death, beer and kindness
The kindest person I ever met was a drunk Irishman on a street corner late one night in June, 2005. more
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‘The fire and the smoke’
Andree Marshall, an Island Park resident, worked at the World Trade Center for years before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. An employee of Merrill Lynch, she was in the building on Feb. 26, … more
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