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Merrick resident and CEO of Long Beach Medical Center Douglas Melzer was recently named chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, the association that represents Long Island’s 24 not-for-profit and public hospitals. His two-year term will expire in June 2012. The CEOs from each of the member hospitals comprise the board of directors.
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Sari Zeidler
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6/28/10
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Sandra Quinn, a Hewitt student in Irma Altman’s third grade class, will go on to the national level in the PTA Reflections Program — a first for the school.
She is one of a handful of Rockville Centre students who rose to the top in the national competition that encourages students to creatively express themselves with an original piece from one of six categories: literature, visual arts, photography, dance choreography, film production or music.
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6/16/10
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Those who attended Rockville Centre's village board meeting on June 8 — or drove by Village Hall at around 8:15 p.m. — might have been startled to find union protesters marching around the block carrying coffins.
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Alex Costello
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6/16/10
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It was during the 1930s, in the depth of the great Depression, that Robert Moses put public authorities on New York state’s map. Hailed at the time as “the man who can get things done,” Moses gained the consent of beleaguered politicians to create public authorities that would capture federal appropriations to restart the stalled economy.
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Hal Peterson
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6/15/10
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Rockville Centre commuters may have recently been handed a flier from the General Building Laborers’ union Local 66, alleging the construction at the AvalonBay site is unsafe, among other things.
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Alex Costello
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6/2/10
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After a decade as state assemblyman in the 14th District, Bob Barra, a Republican from Lynbrook, announced May 19 that he will not seek a sixth term. He cited health concerns as the reason for his …
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Mike Russo
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5/26/10
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They line up every day inside an off-white office resembling a trailer across the street from the Long Beach Medical Center: two neat rows of average-looking people, waiting patiently, as if they are there to buy a cup of coffee from the local deli.
But they are there to save their lives.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/14/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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The wagon used by Rockville Centre resident Edna Buckman Kearns, a women’s suffragist who was active from 1912 through 1920 in the New York State and national campaigns to get women the vote, is …
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4/7/10
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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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