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Amid a heat wave, beachgoers walked to an open beach on Tuesday along a path next to the work site where the Army Corps of Engineers is replenishing sand.
Army Corps work hits delay
The second phase of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal protection project hit a delay last week as a result of rough weather and a broken dredge, Project Manager Dan Falt said on Tuesday. … more
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Residents, elected officials and friends of West End resident Liz Treston, bottom center, organized a fundraiser at the Knights’ Pub on March 24 to raise money to help rebuild her Hurricane Sandy-damaged home. Treston has been displaced since the 2012 storm.
Neighbors rebuild Sandy victim’s home
More than 130 friends and neighbors of West End resident Liz Treston gathered at the Knights’ Pub on March 24 for a fundraiser to raise money to rebuild her Hurricane Sandy-damaged home. … more
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Longtime Lynbrook Kindergarten Center bus driver Joe Nutini, who died three years ago, was honored with a monument of an orange ribbon and a plaque in his name at West End Elementary School on March 14 in a ceremony attended by dozens of residents. Nutini drove the orange school bus for 13 years and touched the lives of many students and parents. Above, his daughter, Beverly Conforti, second from right, with her husband, Bob, their daughter, Victoria Demetriou, and Victoria’s 2-year-old daughter, Hannah.
Late former Lynbrook bus driver honored for his dedication
Longtime Lynbrook Kindergarten Center bus driver Joe Nutini, who died three years ago, was honored with a monument of an orange ribbon and a plaque in his name at West End Elementary School on March 14. more
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West End resident and community activist Liz Treston outside her house in 2016.
Neighbors rally for Sandy victim
“It’s very frustrating to see that a person who knows so much about the details of the system got plain old screwed by a bad contractor, and is now unable to get back into her home,” said Sam … more
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More than 1,000 people gathered in the West End last Saturday for the fifth annual Long Beach Electric Light Parade, featuring antique cars, fire trucks and floats decorated in festive lights.
Electric Light Parade draws more than a thousand people
Residents and visitors alike gathered in the West End for the fifth annual Long Beach Electric Light Parade on Saturday. People lined West Beech Street as antique cars, fire trucks, floats and … more
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A magnitude-4.1 earthquake that struck near Dover, Del. was felt in Long Beach on Thursday.
Effects of Delaware earthquake felt in Long Beach
A number of Long Beach residents said that their buildings and homes shook late Thursday afternoon when a magnitude-4.1 earthquake struck near Dover, Del. “We are aware of multiple buildings … more
The fifth annual Electric Light Parade will run down Beech Street on Dec. 9.
West End Electric Light Parade set for next week
The West End is set to host the fifth annual Long Beach Electric Light Parade featuring antique cars, fire trucks, floats and bicycles wrapped in decorative lights to celebrate the holiday season. … more
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Islanders players visited students at West End Elementary School and then signed autographs and took pictures with them.
Islanders inspire Lynbrook students
Chants of “Islanders! Islanders!” were shouted by enthusiastic students who filed into the West End Elementary School gymnasium to hear from New York Islanders players Dennis Seidenberg, Alan … more
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New York’s infrastructure plans are on right track
In politics, talk is cheap, as they say. During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump talked a good game, calling for a $1 trillion national infrastructure program that would modernize the country’s ailing transportation network. So far, nothing. more
Third-grade students from Marion Street presented Joseph McNeil with a birthday card for his 75th birthday, which is on March 25.
Lynbrook third-graders sit down with sit-in leader
“If it’s the right thing to do, if it’s the right cause, it’s worth the protest,” Joseph McNeil told third-graders from Marion Street, Waverly Park and West End schools on March 3. McNeil, now a Hempstead resident, made history on Feb. 1, 1960, when he and three of his classmates at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and refused to leave. more
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