This week's events include a musical revue of Broadway's best by the Island Park Theater Group, Hofstra University's Shakespeare Festival, and American Girl storytelling at Rock Hall Museum.
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3/17/10
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Well, here I go again. Life is just not busy enough for me, what with writing, reporting, editing, teenagers, curfews, mortgage and such — but I am honing my thespian chops now in “On …
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Mary Malloy
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3/17/10
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Sal Canepa dances in his head — but not before he listens to the tune about a half dozen times and then, painstakingly and intricately, puts each step on paper. Canepa is now working with the cast of Island Park Theatre Group’s “On Broadway — A Musical Revue,” which features full, well-known songs from 29 Broadway musicals.
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Mary Malloy
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3/10/10
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On Feb. 4, the Haiti Relief Fund, headquartered in Lynbrook and run by Island Park resident Carlo Thertus, sent off a 40-foot shipping container loaded with do
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Mary Malloy
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2/18/10
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What could be better than great value, fine fresh food, endless options, a cozy ambience and an undyingly friendly staff?
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Terry Biener
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2/11/10
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Lynbrook High School students Erica and Matthew DeMichiel collected over 120 new children’s books at multiple sites in Lynbrook and East Rockaway on behalf of First Book-Long Island, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing new books to children from low-income households in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The group’s mission is to instill a love of reading in youngsters who would not otherwise have access to books in their homes.
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2/3/10
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Some years back, I caved to familial pressure and agreed to bring a dog into our household. I had always had dogs while growing up — abroad — and they had enriched my life and the lives of others around the family. What I had not reckoned with was the paucity of facilities for dogs in Nassau County and its towns.
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1/20/10
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Lynbrook staff volleys to raise funds for PTA event
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The Lynbrook Council of PTA’s sponsored its annual Staff Volleyball Game and Middle School Kickline performance recently.
Funds raised from the event will go toward scholarship funds for graduatin Lynbrook High School seniors.
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by Mary Malloy
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1/14/10
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Looking for the reality show of a lifetime? Want to dance under the stars instead of with them? Then immerse yourself in nature: the trees, mountains, rivers, lakes, swamps, deserts and glaciers that lie within the boundaries of our national parks.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/8/09
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In June, the Nassau County Legislature approved a bill that would close the sewer plants in the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst and transfer their waste to the county’s facility in Bay Park. On Oct. 1, the Town of Hempstead board unanimously voted to sue the county as well as Lawrence and Cedarhurst in an attempt to stop the consolidation until state environmental agencies determine how the extra sewage processed by the Bay Park facility will affect Reynolds Channel, where the plant pumps treated effluent.
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ANTHONY BOTTAN
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10/8/09
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