After months of work by State Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) and local leaders to acquire a piece of the World Trade Center as a way to memorialize West Hempstead residents who died on Sept. …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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3/13/12
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Dozens of residents and several county legislators rallied last week outside the 5th Precinct in Elmont, protesting County Executive Ed Mangano’s plan to transform four of the county’s …
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By Jackie Nash and Lee Landor
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2/8/12
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West Hempstead Boy Scouts will spend their Saturday cleaning up Hall’s Pond Park and they’ve invited residents of the community to join them. The only problem is that they’re …
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Lee Landor
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11/30/11
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Barry Leon has to do some more homework before the Hempstead Town Council will consider approving his proposal to rezone a West Hempstead site from light manufacturing to multifamily urban renewal …
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Lee Landor
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11/23/11
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A fifth of a mile isn’t much of a distance, but if a blighted area of a community is that large, it can seem like a huge open wound.
A stretch of Hempstead Avenue in West Hempstead, between …
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Lee Landor
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11/1/11
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West Hempstead organizations had to scale back their annual Sept. 11 Memorial Ceremony this year — the year they had planned a special event in honor of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The …
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By Lee Landor
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9/14/11
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The North Shore Pops kicked off the free summer concert series, sponsored by the West Hempstead Community Support Association and ...
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7/13/11
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For nearly two decades, the 5th Precinct’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit has consisted of a group of four officers, with whom the West Hempstead community has become comfortable working and …
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By Jackie Nash and Lee Landor
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6/22/11
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Community service seems to run in Mark DeFilippis’ family.
The 17-year-old West Hempstead High School senior — grandson of Rosalie Norton, president of the West Hempstead Community …
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By Svenja van den Woldenberg
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5/11/11
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Elinor Organ loves the work she does. And so does the West Hempstead Community Support Association, which recently awarded the local business owner its Business Pride Award.
Organ has owned …
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By Lee Landor
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3/30/11
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