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The recent vote by Congress to cut $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the food stamp program known as SNAP — over the next 10 years is alarming.
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10/10/13
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The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program has named Woodland Middle School in the East Meadow Union Free School District a “Mix It Up Model School” for its exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among its students and throughout its campus during the 2010-2011 school year. Woodland Middle School is one of only 52 schools from across the country to receive this honor.
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6/16/11
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How easily we forget that Long Island was settled by Dutch immigrants in the mid-1600s and by the English in the 1700s. Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants arrived in abundance in the early 1900s.
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9/30/10
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South Side High School Principal Dr. Carol Burris was selected as the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS). She will be honored for her accomplishments at an awards ceremony on May 7 at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs.
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4/28/10
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