Valley Streamers remember vets in many ways
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American Legion Post 854 began its Memorial Day service ahead of time, with a commemoration at the Legion Hall on Roosevelt Avenue Sunday morning, followed by a service at the Brooklyn Avenue School.
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6/2/10
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His every word beat the audience chatter into submission. “The silence in this room means the message penetrated—it hit a core.," said David Swarts, commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Vikas Girdhar
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5/24/10
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Kennedy High School students recently helped One Is Greater Than None, a non-profit group created by JFK students, to raise more than $3,500 to supply free health care to Americans in need. Some 207 participants walked at the high school track under sunny skies to raise money for and awareness of the cause.
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5/24/10
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The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted on May 11 to maintain its special education plan — a co-teaching model in grades 7 through 11 — for the 2010-11 school year.
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Anthony Bottan
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5/19/10
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Eight members of Valley Stream Central High School’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter competed at the FBLA State Leadership Conference on April 21 in Rochester, facing off against more than 800 business students from across the state in a variety of business-related competitions.
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Anthony Bottan
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5/19/10
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Voters overwhelmingly passed school budgets in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School, Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick school districts. The vote tally was as follows:
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Scott Brinton
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5/18/10
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Budgets passed in all four Valley Stream school districts on Tuesday night.
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Andrew Hackmack
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5/18/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, more than 17,000 people die in drunk-driving crashes annually -- one person every 30 minutes.
Officials in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and at the Community Parent Center take that statistic to heart, said Wendy Tepfer, the parent center's director. And so she teamed up with Saul Lerner, the Central District's health and physical education director, to bring an innovative anti-DWI program to Bellmore-Merrick next Thursday.
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Scott Brinton
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5/14/10
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May 5 was a bittersweet day for four Valley Stream girls’ soccer players, who have been on the field together for more than a dozen years. At Central High School that afternoon, they each signed their letters of intent to play ball in college.
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Andrew Hackmack
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5/12/10
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