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On April 22, we will celebrate the 46th annual Earth Day, when, ideally, we should commit to improving the state of our great Mother Ship. Despite our best efforts to discover a second planet where we might lay down roots . . .
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4/21/16
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Herald Community Newspapers took home 13 honors in the New York Press Association’s 2015 Better Newspaper Contest, which attracted more than 2,800 entries from 177 weekly and daily newspapers across the state. Awards were announced at NYPA’s annual convention in upstate Saratoga Springs on April 8 and 9.
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By Rebecca Anderson
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4/12/16
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Environmentally speaking, the mid-20th century was a terrible time. Government and industry experimented with all manner of chemicals . . .
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4/7/16
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If you’ve driven down just about any street in the Town of Hempstead in the past three weeks or so, you’ve no doubt noticed the election signs springing up on public, private and abandoned property — virtually everywhere. Meacham Avenue in Elmont, which drivers use to get from Hempstead Turnpike to the Southern State Parkway, has more than a dozen signs measuring more than three feet across, turning this popular roadway into a makeshift Times Square for election campaigning.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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10/7/15
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The doors of Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home, Sagamore Hill, considered to be a Long Island treasure in nearby Oyster Bay Cove, were reopened July 12.
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7/22/15
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Last summer, when the bicycle path running from Cedar Creek Park in Wantagh to Jones Beach was extended another 3.6 miles to reach the entrance of Tobay Beach in Massapequa, many heralded the project as a great addition to the distinctive recreational options available to Long Islanders. But then Oyster Bay town residents began to complain about errant bicyclists in the Tobay parking lot and beach areas. So fences were put up, a turnstile was installed, and a locked gate was put in last month to allow pedestrians access, but to keep bicyclists out.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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6/24/15
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When Nassau BOCES came up with the idea to create the Doshi STEM Institute, a half-day, five-days-a-week learning experience for high school students focusing on science, technology, engineering and math, the Malverne school district immediately saw its value.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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3/25/15
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Thanks to a grant from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Maple Avenue will look better than ever when the construction is finally done.
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By Alex Costello
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10/22/14
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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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In 2010, people in Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and Seaford paid nearly five times more for tap water than people in East Meadow, Levittown, Lido Beach and Uniondale, according to an engineering firm working for the Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County. The first four communities got their water from the company Long Island American Water. The second four got theirs from the Town of Hempstead ...
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By Brian Racow
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8/27/14
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