President Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan is remarkable for its ambition and breadth and for taking significant steps to address historic racial inequities. The president deserves great credit . . .
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By Elaine Gross
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4/15/21
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The Diocese of Rockville Centre has sold its Pastoral Center, at Sunrise Highway and North Park Avenue in the heart of downtown Rockville Centre, for $5.2 million, church officials announced …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/27/21
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I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19.
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By Lawrence E. Eisenstein
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2/25/21
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The coronavirus pandemic reached Long Island a year ago next week, at first bringing a handful of cases before it dug in and exploded, wreaking havoc.
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2/25/21
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Almost a year into a pandemic that has turned people into homebodies, the social isolation experienced by many senior citizens has been particularly worrisome. But Rockville Centre’s Sandel Senior Center has continued to support local seniors in a variety of ways throughout the health crisis, and many are thriving with the help of its services.
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By Jill Nossa
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2/25/21
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It happened as, I assume, many of these things do: It was a busy day, I was working at home, and the cellphone rang.
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By James Bernstein
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2/11/21
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The events at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and the exhortations by some elected officials leading up to them got me to thinking about civic responsibility and our nation’s future.
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By Robert Scott
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1/28/21
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It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school. Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers . . .
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1/7/21
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Let’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by . . .
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1/7/21
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Since the start of the pandemic, residents of Rockville Centre have provided support to neighbors in need in numerous ways, and that generosity has continued through the holiday season. Last week, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center’s pop-up food pantry opened for the final time this year, and donors ensured that Christmas would be bountiful: About three weeks’ worth of groceries, as well as gifts, were given to the approximately 100 families the pantry serves each week.
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By Jill Nossa
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12/24/20
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