Joseph Margolin has been a regular at Valley Stream village board meetings for the better part of two years. Come April, he hopes to move from the audience to the front of the room — to the mayor’s seat.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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3/2/11
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For the past nine months, Carol Crupi has been the unofficial leader in the fight against the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new flood maps, which put parts of Valley Stream into the high-risk flood zone. Now, Crupi is looking to take her activism to the next level and hopes to win a seat on the village board.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/23/11
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As president of the Valley Stream Lions Club and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Michael LoCascio says he is all about community service. That is why he is running for the Valley Stream Board of Trustees — to take that service to a broader level.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/23/11
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Touting their accomplishments and promising to maintain their successes, Malverne Mayor Patricia McDonald, Deputy Mayor James Callahan III and Trustee Michael Bailey are running again this year for their seats on the village board.
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By Lee Landor
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2/23/11
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To the dismay of former Malverne Mayor Tony Panzarella, the village’s Independent Party will not be getting a name change anytime soon.
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By Lee Landor
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2/23/11
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On Nov. 6 members of Rockville Centre’s Independent Order of Odd Fellows celebrated the 100th anniversary of its cabin lodge that is located on Merrick Road. Lodge 279 opened its doors in May 1910, when the first meeting of the Odd Fellows was held there. At that meeting, 100 new candidates were initiated into the organization.
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11/17/10
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In 2004, the Brennan Center for Justice and New York University’s School of Law released a report describing the New York Legislature as “the most dysfunctional state [government] in the …
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Hal Peterson
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8/12/10
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Runners from across Long Island turned out for the annual Bellmore Striders Independence Day run on Sunday, July 4. Some 559 runners competed in the four-mile race that morning. A one-mile youth run was also held.
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Deirdre Krasula
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7/6/10
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With temperatures reaching into the 90s, local residents circled around the gazebo in Veterans Memorial Plaza in downtown Merrick on the Fourth of July to read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety.
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Scott Brinton
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7/4/10
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The Declaration of Independence was first published on July 6, 1776, in a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Evening Post. We are proud to commemorate that high point in American journalism by reprinting that historic document.
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7/1/10
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