For Long Beach sports bars, the football season offers a profitable segue from the busy summer months. When the NFL kicks off in September, establishments are quick to fly Jets and Giants flags, dress employees in team jerseys and serve drinks in football-shaped cups, all while showing a dizzying variety of games each Sunday on multiple high-definition or plasma flat screens.
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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9/24/09
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The Brooklyn Avenue Firehouse is getting a makeover — a decidedly scary one. Members of the Valley Stream Fire Department are nearing completion of the second annual haunted house, which opens next weekend and runs through the end of October.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/24/09
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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been a part of our social and political system for more than 30 years. Over the past 10 years, however, many of you have come to know ACORN not as a community organization, but as a political arm of the Working Families Party.
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Alfonse D'Amato
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9/24/09
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The 80th anniversary of Valley Stream Central High School is coming up and to celebrate, Central’s Alumni Association is hosting an alumni dinner on Oct. 3 at the Coral House in Baldwin.
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Anthony Bottan
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9/24/09
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Hawthorne Court, the new condominium development on South Cottage Street that is expected to help provide a boost to Valley Stream’s downtown, is nearing completion.
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Anthony Bottan
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9/24/09
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The village’s Recreation Center's annual Kids Fest Open House drew a large crowd last Saturday, on a partly cloudy afternoon.
From noon to 4, families visited the Rec Center and enjoyed …
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9/17/09
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Long Beach attorney Frank McQuade was one of an estimated 100,000 people from all 50 states who assembled outside the Capitol and on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to protest increased …
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9/17/09
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The annual Kids Fest open house celebration at the Recreation Center, 111 N. Oceanside Road, is scheduled for this Saturday, Sept. 12 from noon to 4 p.m. As always, there will be refreshments, give-aways, pony rides and other attractions for Rockville Centre families to enjoy.
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9/10/01
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