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The always dynamic pianist Rachel Z (right) returns with her band The Trio of OZ, featuring drummer Omar Hakim (left).
In tune with the Long Beach Jazz Festival
The Long Beach Jazz Festival, which runs Sept. 17-20, has now evolved into an institution, eagerly awaited by not only local residents, but by fans from throughout the South Shore and beyond. more
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Erasing racism in South Carolina, and on L.I.
On July 10, South Carolina finally decided to join the Union for good when it removed the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds in Columbia, its capital. more
Nassau County faces a real fight against heroin
What’s the biggest concern on Long Island today? Sure, property taxes and quality education are always on everyone’s mind, but right now the heroin epidemic that is threatening members of our community . . . more
The U.S. Maritime Administration and Coast Guard held a public hearing about Port Ambrose, a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach, last Wednesday night in a ballroom at the Hilton New York JFK Airport in Jamaica, Queens. Port Ambrose opponents, who have assembled into a “No LNG Coalition,” conducted a press conference immediately before the hearing, drawing a few dozen people into a small hotel meeting room feet away from the ballroom.
Most at Port Ambrose hearing slam plan
One after another, for four hours, speakers at a hearing last Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens lined up to decry a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach. more
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Queens man arrested in 2012 shooting of VS resident
uA Queens man was arrested last week in the 2012 shooting death of a Central High School graduate, according to the New York Police Department. Lamell Ford, 33, was charged with second-degree … more
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Mordi, center, receives last minute instructions from Queens College coach Daryl Jacobs. Mordi has become a leader on the team, taking players like fellow Valley Stream native Diego Maldonado, second from left, under his wing.
Valley Stream Central H.S. grad leads college team
Jeremiah Mordi didn’t receive much attention during his senior year playing for Central High School’s basketball team; college scouts weren’t at his games and Mordi feared his basketball career … more
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Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, at the lectern, announced the arrest of nine people in connection with an alleged multi-million-dollar heroin pipeline that led from Mexico to Long Island on Dec. 18. She was joined by County Executive Ed Mangano, fourth from left; Rick Whelan, fourth from right, chief of Rice’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau; and other officials.
D.A.: Probe takes down heroin pipeline
Rick Whelan, chief of the Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau at the Nassau County district attorney’s office, took a brief breather after the news conference. Only minutes earlier, he had stood beside D.A. Kathleen Rice and County Executive Ed Mangano to announce that a team of federal and local... more
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, at microphone, stopped at the Bellmore train station on Tuesday and criticized an MTA/LIRR plan to bus commuters into New York City in the event of an LIRR strike in July. She was joined here by Councilwoman Angie Cullin, lower left, Town Clerk Nasrin Ahmad, Councilman Gary Hudes, Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby and Councilman James Darcy.
Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray lambastes LIRR
Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray came to the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road station on Tuesday to call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rethink a plan to bus train commuters … more
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Thomas Saltzman explained the history of the Town of Hempstead’s many villages while pointing at the page of an E. Belcher Hyde atlas.
Digging in Saltzman’s vaults
“This was the graveyard of the town,” Thomas Saltzman murmured, gesturing toward the carefully kept shelves of records that line the walls of the Town of Hempstead Archives. “This was every … more
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Falcons
South Homecoming one for the ages
Valley Stream South High School was visited by students, teachers, alumni and staff members for the annual Homecoming festival last Saturday to celebrate the South Falcons’ second-to-last home football game of the season. more
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