Veolia Transportation Inc. recently signed a contract to take over operation of Long Island Bus, run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Nassau County Attorney’s Office is reviewing the agreement before it is submitted to the county Legislature for a vote, but members of New York Public Interest Research Group Fund want the details now
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Deirdre Krasula
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10/31/11
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Coloki, Inc., a nonprofit group set up by Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy to run the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer that aids impoverished day laborers, will host a benefit fundraiser at Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/10/11
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On a recent sunny Thursday, Wilbur Sanchez spoke in slow, deliberate English as he pointed out vegetables amid the greenery fanning out around him. Sanchez noted the peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers hanging from tall plants in a red box before him. In a second box to his right were chives, oregano and lettuce. In the middle of the garden, watermelon vines looped in all directions. At the back, cornstalks popped out above still more pepper plants.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/3/11
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Nassau County has selected a private company to take over operation of the Long Island Bus System next year.
County Executive Edward Mangano announced last week that the RFP panel formed last year …
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By David Weingrad
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6/16/11
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Nassau County has selected a private company to take over operation of the Long Island Bus System next year.
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By David Weingrad
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6/15/11
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Schools from all over Nassau County participate in the year round Trivia Challenge event and raise significant funds for the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County, Inc.
Now in its …
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2/23/11
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Traveling down a long, foggy, icy Long Island road in the dead of winter to see “Jekyll & Hyde The Musical” seemed like an appropriate precursor for what was to come.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/9/11
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The Valley Stream school district’s Educational Foundation received $1,300 from the Reliance Lodge Charity Committee, after establishing in its by-laws a charity fund for needy children.
The …
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1/26/11
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Last January, the long trailer in the parking lot at the end of Bennington Avenue in Freeport projected an unwelcoming image. The cement-gray exterior looked sterile and institutional. The sign above the front door, “Workers Available,” was faded. The wooden steps leading inside were worn and rickety. And out back the siding had ripped off in a storm, exposing insulation.
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by Scott Brinton
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12/29/10
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At a time when the use of opiate prescription drugs and strong, cheap, readily available heroin has created an epidemic of addiction on Long Island, people in need can turn to Confide Inc. for help. On any day of the week they will find Art Rosenthal, 66, the executive director and driving force behind the outpatient drug and alcohol counseling center, in its basement offices in the medical building at 30 Hempstead Ave.
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Judy Rattner
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12/29/10
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