After a night of freezing rain and sleet, PSEG Long Island is coping with a number of power outages on the South Shore of Nassau County.
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By John Maher
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2/5/14
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Municipal crews were at work last night and this morning clearing roads of the 10 to 15 inches of snow which blanketed most of Long Island yesterday, but freezing temperatures and strong wind gusts were a challenge.
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By Brian Racow
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1/22/14
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The National Weather Service has canceled the blizzard warning for Nassau County, and only a special weather statement remains for the area as of Friday afternoon.
As of 10:55 a.m., the most …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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1/3/14
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It used to be respectable, even desirable, for someone who was sneezing and coughing and spewing germs to stay home until the siege passes.
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10/3/13
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I plugged a simple search term into Google last week: “Were Afghanistan and Iraq worth it?” Tens of thousands of entries popped up.
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5/31/13
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Editor's Note: Because of storm damage and related closings, many venues may not be open or made have changed their event schedule. It's best to call ahead and check before venturing out.
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11/2/12
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Exhibits and more...
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent CollectionThis rotating exhibition of highlights from the Heckscher Museum’s Permanent Collection features a broad …
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1/18/12
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Fifth-grade students at Howell Road School became scientists last week, participating in a DNA extraction lab. The school’s library became their laboratory on Nov. 21, as children learned about a component of every living thing.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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11/30/11
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I remember a hallway full of sunlight that streamed through floor-to-ceiling windows. Off to one side were tables and chairs for 3- and 4-year-olds. Miniature wooden tea sets from Russia, hand-painted in brilliant colors, were set neatly atop each table. At the end of the hall, I entered a playroom with rainforest murals covering the walls.
This, I thought, is the Evil Empire?
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Scott Brinton
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9/22/10
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How strange. On April 18, 1955, he was alive. He had mass. He lay in a bed, frantically plotting equations with pencil and paper in neat handwriting, attempting to piece together a unified theory to explain the connections between all forms of matter in the universe. And then he was dead, killed by an aneurysm that had festered for years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/11/10
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