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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there’s no better time to gauge your awareness. Are the following statements true or false?
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10/9/14
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As we prepare our young women for college, we must not forget “the talk” about how they can keep themselves safe.
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10/2/14
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It was the summer of 2012. Madeleine Petrara Perrin, an attorney from Bayville, couldn’t get over how much Joe had changed. She had last seen Joe, a Bayville native who was 56 at the time, at his apartment a year earlier when she was volunteering for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charitable group committed to ending poverty.
Joe was a shell of his former self.
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By Laura Lane
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10/2/14
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As hookah smoking becomes more and more popular, a greater number of hookah bars are popping up all over Long Island. But some places see them as a nuisance, and municipalities are starting to ban the smoking lounges.
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By Alex Costello
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10/1/14
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In observance of Women’s History Month, we thought it fitting to highlight some notable women who were instrumental in shaping present-day Long Island.
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3/20/14
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With Women’s History Month coming to a close, seven young women at Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls’ high school in Hempstead, were looking to write their own chapter as they prepared …
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By Emily Webb
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3/18/14
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Redistricting is most likely something Nassau County residents don’t want to think about again for another decade, especially after last year’s long and contentious process to redraw the county’s 19 legislative districts.
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2/14/14
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Curled up in a blanket against the arm of a wood-frame couch on which she wriggles to get comfortable, Nia, an 18-year-old resident of Family and Children’s Walkabout for Young Men and Women, a long-term transitional house in Freeport that shelters homeless teenagers and helps them to become self-sufficient, described her daily routine.
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By Emily Webb
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2/11/14
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A coalition of nonpartisan groups last week called on the Nassau County Legislature to overhaul its redistricting process, which occurs every decade following the release of census data to account for population shifts.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/4/14
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Long Island Business News recently named Linda Oliva, 49, a medical malpractice attorney and a West Hempstead resident for the past 13 years, one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in …
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By Emily Webb
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10/23/13
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