Late last month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued AvalonBay Communities a certificate of completion following its cleanup of a brownfield site on Banks Avenue.
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AARON AXELSON
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1/11/12
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West Hempstead is getting made over one step at a time. The local Chamber of Commerce launched a beautification community that undertook, as one of its first projects, the cleanup of a vacant …
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12/21/11
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West Hempstead is slowly, but surely, getting made-over, and community participation is on the rise ever since the West Hempstead Chamber of Commerce launched its beautification committee last month …
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Lee Landor
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12/14/11
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As Town of Hempstead officials broke open the lock to the entrance on Nov. 30, dozens of workers stood at the ready to begin the massive undertaking of cleaning up the vacant lot at 425 Atlantic …
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Aaron Axelson
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12/7/11
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West Hempstead Boy Scouts will spend their Saturday cleaning up Hall’s Pond Park and they’ve invited residents of the community to join them. The only problem is that they’re …
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Lee Landor
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11/30/11
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Alex Jacobson, owner of Lakewood Stables, brought together more than 100 people last Saturday to clean up Hempstead Lake State Park of the trash and debris that litter it — a result of …
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Lee Landor
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11/23/11
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Degraded rubber tires, dirty plastic bottles, cigarette butts, deteriorating pieces of paper and the occasional deflated basketball litter the ground surrounding Hempstead Lake. They seem so out of …
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Lee Landor
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11/16/11
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Karl Riesterer has a large binder filled with photos of storefronts, telephone poles, mailboxes, fences and vacant properties throughout West Hempstead that are, in one way or another, …
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Lee Landor
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11/16/11
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There were pockets of devastation that left about 500 homes in Rockville Centre without power on Sunday, but for the most part, the village came through the ravages of Hurricane Irene fairly intact. No storm-related injuries were reported.
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Judy Rattner
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8/28/11
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One of my favorite activities during a recent family vacation in St. Augustine, Fla., was sitting in a lawn chair on the white, sandy beach and watching flocks of pelicans streaking above the Atlantic Ocean like squadrons of jetfighters.
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Scott Brinton
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6/20/10
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