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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A new school year has begun at Holy Name of Mary School and there are some new faces to go along with high hopes.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/18/13
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Every year, the community shines a spotlight on high school valedictorians and salutatorians, focusing on which college they will attend and what they will study. This year we wanted to follow-up with some of last year’s top graduates, listen to their freshmen experiences and hear their summer stories.
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By Grace Poppe
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8/1/13
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Long Island’s high schools have finished honoring the members of the class of 2013, and many of those newly minted graduates are now looking toward college in the fall.
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6/26/13
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Two dozen Central High School District took part in the Victory Challenge on May 31 at Mitchel Athletic Complex.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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6/19/13
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By my rough calculations, our children spend some 17,640 hours in school, kindergarten through high school.
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6/6/13
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Respect and tolerance aren’t just words. In District 30, those concepts and others are a way of life. Recently, third-graders at Shaw Avenue School put on a play, “Character Matters.”
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By Andrew Hackmack
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6/5/13
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Just about every high school in the country has a student newspaper. Few elementary schools, however, offer students an opportunity for to report on the happenings of school life.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/17/13
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The dichotomy between inBloom’s website, featuring photos of smiling elementary-age children seated beside young teachers, tablets in hand, and its seven-page Privacy and Security Policy, full of legalese, could not be more stark.
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5/16/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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