In the race to fill former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos’s seat after he was convicted on corruption charges in December, both state Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) and Chris McGrath (R-Hewlett) have come out swinging in the weeks leading up to the special election on April 19.
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4/14/16
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Previously a Town of Hempstead councilman 20 years ago, Bruce Blakeman was appointed to the board in January. Milagros Vicente ran in the 2012 Democratic primary for state assembly, but lost to Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/14/15
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Exhibits and more...
BA Djibril NgawaA solo exhibit by the West African artist of photographs and paintings inspired by the shapes, colors, traditions and nature that surrounded Ngawa during his …
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7/22/15
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Exhibits and more...
BA Djibril NgawaA solo exhibit by the West African artist of photographs and paintings inspired by the shapes, colors, traditions and nature that surrounded Ngawa during his …
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7/15/15
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It’s been five months since Hurricane Sandy devastated many South Shore communities, but it appears that some of the areas most impacted will finally receive the necessary funding to start the process of rebuilding damaged beaches and dunes.
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3/28/13
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One single summer is never enough time to read all the books, take all the ferries, eat all the cherries or hike all the trails that I plan to do in May, when summer is just on the horizon.
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9/6/12
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Second of two parts.
From the early 1970s to the 1990s, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer scoured the sands of Atlantic Beach and Long Beach in search of hypodermic needles and balls of sewage sludge that had congealed on disposable pens and bottle caps.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/2/12
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First of two parts.
In 1965, Morris Kramer, a 30-year-old bachelor who lived in Atlantic Beach with his mother, claimed that the Lawrence Public School District and the State of New York were discriminating against him.
Kramer owned no property and had no children in the schools, so, by state law at the time, he couldn’t vote in a school district election. That, he said, violated his constitutional rights.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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4/18/12
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