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To commemorate Black History Month, the Rockville Centre/Lakeview Economic Opportunity Council — along with the Rockville Centre Youth Council, Senior Youth Council and Headstart Program — hosted …
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Tom Steinert
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2/23/11
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Family, friends and co-workers of two recently retired Rockville Centre librarians — Anita LaSpina, the head of Children’s Services and Ruth Black, the principal Library Clerk — honored them at a dinner on Jan. 28 at the Oceanside Knights of Columbus Hall.
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Judy Rattner
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2/9/11
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Members of the Sandel Senior Center’s Service Corps have added to their good deeds around the village — they now staff an intergenerational organization called Homework Helpers, which meets Mondays through Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the children’s room at the Rockville Centre Public Library. True to its name, the club pairs former school teachers who are members of the center with elementary, middle school and English as a Second Language students who need help with their school work, particularly in reading and math.
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Tom Steinert
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11/17/10
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Led by Rockville Centre librarian Ellen Berman, who facilitates a book club at the Sandel Senior Center, a number of the center’s members traveled to Molloy College on Oct. 5 to meet David Oliver Relin, who, with Greg Mortensen, wrote the best seller “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time.”
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10/13/10
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On Sept. 22, the Rockville Centre Library dedicated the Elaine and Irving Gelston Jr. Art Book Collection.
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10/13/10
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The Sandel Senior Center Book Club celebrated its 10-year anniversary last week as Ellen Berman, the librarian from the Rockville Centre Public Library who serves as the liaison to the club, gathered with eight current members over coffee and cake to celebrate the special occasion.
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Tom Steinert
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9/1/10
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Call it life in cartoon motion.
More than 100 people attended Anime Tosho-Con, Long Island's first-ever anime conference last Saturday at the Rockville Centre Public Library, which focused on art forms emanating from the popular animated cartoons on Japanese television.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/28/10
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This summer, a wave of reading is again washing over Rockville Centre. The public library’s annual summer reading programs are officially under way, with more than 100 children and teen volunteers already signed up.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/14/10
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This isn’t your children’s suburbs.
“This isn’t even the suburbs of your children’s children,” lecturer Lawrence Levy intoned multiple times to a rapt audience that filled the basement room of the Rockville Centre Public Library on the night of June 7. “It’s a bleak picture, but not an unbeatable one. We need to be smart, successful and resourceful.”
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6/16/10
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Voters in the Rockville Centre school district have approved the 2010-11 school budget of $93.4 million. In unofficial results Tuesday night, the spending plan passed with 2,483 votes, 55 percent of the votes cast, while 2,027 residents voted against it. Despite periods of heavy rain during the day, district officials said the voter turnout was the heaviest since 2006.
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Judy Rattner
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5/18/10
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