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Round the final bend as you’re headed south on the Loop Parkway into Lido Beach, and you suddenly spot it in the distance –– a more than 10-story, high-powered wind turbine, with its massive rotors spinning in the wind, generating electricity to power a hydrogen-fueling station at the Town of Hempstead’s Department of Conservation and Waterways.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/25/12
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Cleaning up local waterways and better connecting local parks were some of the topics discussed at Monday’s Envision Valley Stream meeting that focused primarily on the village’s parks department and environment.
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By Brian Croce
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3/1/12
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After 12 years in scouting, Sam Catalano has reached the top. The Boy Scout from Malverne and Valley Stream North High School senior earned his Eagle rank at a Court of Honor ceremony on Dec. …
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/14/11
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray and a group of 15 government officials, civic leaders and engineers donned sunglasses as they unveiled two “solar trackers” in the back parking lot of the town’s Department of Conservation and Waterways in Lido Beach on Monday.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/12/11
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Capt. Don Harris, first vice president and environmental educator for the Freeport-based Operation SPLASH, recently visited Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick. Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering and Save Harbors) is a non-profit, all–volunteer organization that focuses on improving quality of life on Long Island’s shores.
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By Peri Hoffer-Hinden
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6/17/11
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West Hempstead High School junior Steven Trezza is a Boy Scout with Troop 240 of West Hempstead. In his pursuit of the rank of Eagle Scout, Steven launched a community service project last year aimed …
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5/18/11
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Extreme amounts of shoreline trash have been reported by residents of East Rockaway and Bay Park. Coffee cups, water bottles, and assorted litter can also be seen all over Long Island’s south shore waterways. Many people think that litter in the Bay Park area is a result of careless boaters but that is not the case: street litter from as far north as Garden City washes into storm drains that empty, unfiltered, directly into south shore waterways.
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4/13/11
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The article below is the final of four articles submitted to the Herald by West Hempstead High School sophomore Steven Trezza, a Boy Scout with Troop 240 in pursuit of the rank of Eagle Scout. …
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10/20/10
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