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Baldwin’s quest for its first-ever boys’ basketball state championship fell short last Saturday afternoon at Glens Falls Civic Center in a Class AA state semifinal game.
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Tony Bellissimo
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3/20/12
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Nassau County Deputy Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter fielded a litany of questions about the police department’s proposed realignment plan, which would merge the county’s eight precincts into four, during a March 6 meeting of the South Merrick Community Civic Association.
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By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com
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3/1/12
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Several South Shore civic and elected leaders have banded together to decry a proposal by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to sell or lease three of the county’s sewage treatment plants to a …
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Chris Engelhardt and David Weingrad
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2/29/12
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The new Baldwin Civic Association held its second meeting last Saturday morning in the cafeteria of Baldwin Senior High School. A crowd of some 50 early risers discussed issues ranging from vandalism to business development and the design of new “Shop Baldwin First” banners.
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Chris Connolly
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12/8/11
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The effort to revamp Baldwin’s civic association — dormant since the 1990s — has brought many members of the community into the public eye. One of them is David Viana, an 18-year-old college freshman who looked somewhat out of place at a public meeting at the Baldwin Public Library on Oct. 22, ceding the podium to veteran public speakers like County Legislator Joe Scannell and Linda Reed of Town Councilman Anthony Santino’s office. The 200 or so concerned citizens who attended were full of questions about Viana: Who was he? How did he get involved? Was he running for something? The Herald spoke with Viana last week.
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Chris Connolly
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11/2/11
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Around 200 residents sacrificed a beautiful Saturday afternoon to pack the Baldwin Public Library’s Community Room on Oct. 22 for the inaugural meeting of a new civic association.
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Chris Connolly
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10/26/11
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Nearly 400 residents and animal rescuers protested outside the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh last Saturday afternoon. Hope for Hempstead Shelter, a local shelter-reform advocacy group, …
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By Jackie Nash
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3/23/11
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To some Malverne residents, making the village the permanent home of Malverne Mel seems like a great idea.
It appears unlikely, however, to happen anytime soon. Suggestions made by the …
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By Lee Landor
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12/22/10
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The North Merrick Civic Association is seeking support for a moratorium on the installation of cell-phone antennas and other equipment in the Town of Hempstead until a new town code regulating the equipment is passed.
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David Weingrad
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8/2/10
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The South Merrick Community Civic Association announced this week that it would meet in the near future with Freeport Village activist Pat Rowen to discuss Freeport's possible construction of a …
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Scott Brinton
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6/13/10
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