Every day, 2,500 teens across the country, ages 12 to 17, get high off prescription drugs, and 70 percent of them obtain their narcotics from family members or friends –– most often by swiping them from bathroom medicine cabinets, according to Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/10/14
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I had been pedaling for an hour and a half when I stopped cold. The view, quite simply, stunned me.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, and I was three-quarters of the way through a bike ride up and down the asphalt path that runs along the Wantagh and Ocean parkways, from Nassau County’s Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa. The entire ride, from Cedar Creek to Tobay Beach and back, was 17.6 miles.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/29/14
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I couldn’t believe my ears: The bard of 19th century America, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), was bellowing lines from “America” in his actual voice . . .
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8/27/14
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I can’t explain precisely how I determined which college I would attend. The process was more art than science.
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8/6/14
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Part two of an occasional series about the challenges that people face making ends meet in Nassau County.
By 8 a.m. on July 3, many, if not most, of the 3- to 5-year-olds in Jazmin Torres and …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/30/14
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In jumping into the teacher-tenure debate, I know I’m stirring up a hornet’s nest. But who doesn’t like a little danger now and again? So here goes.
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7/16/14
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Nassau County plans to offer free wireless Internet access and work cubicles in a 20,000-square-foot office in Bethpage’s industrial park if there is a Long Island Rail Road strike on July 20.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/11/14
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How does any parent raise a child to succeed in life? That is the most basic, yet profound — many might say confounding — question that any mother or father might ask.
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6/26/14
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray came to the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road station on Tuesday to call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rethink a plan to bus train commuters …
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By Scott Brinton
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6/25/14
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Herald Community Newspapers took home six honors, including three first-place awards, in the Press Club of Long Island’s 2014 Media Awards contest. In addition, Senior Editor Scott Brinton was inducted into the first class of PCLI’s new Journalism Hall of Fame, honoring 25 of Long Island’s top reporters, broadcasters and editors for their contributions to the journalism profession.
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6/11/14
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