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Geico Skytypers Air Show Preview
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The Geico Skytypers took a member of the Herald team up into their planes for a preview of what they will be doing during the Jones Beach Airshow this weekend.
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Photos by Christina Daly
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5/27/16
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Having a fair amount of fun in Cedarhurst Park
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The sun seeped through the clouds and the rain abated for Kulanu Academy’s annual fair at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park last Sunday. Rides, games, crafts, face painting, petting zoo, raffles and refreshments were all part of the four and a half-hour event.
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5/25/16
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Lawrence Woodmere Academy remembers the Holocaust
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Lawrence Woodmere Academy held a Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly on May 10 that commemorated the victims and survivors of the systematic killing of 6 million European Jews as well as 7 million other people under the Nazi Germany regime of the 1930s and ’40s.
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5/18/16
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HAFTR celebrates Israel’s anniversary
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Early childhood through fifth-grade students at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) Lower School commemorated Israel and the Jewish state’s 68th anniversary with a family celebration on May 11.
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5/18/16
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Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post 339 paid tribute to all members of the U.S. armed forces and highlighted disabled veterans at its Veteran Night event at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club last Thursday.
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5/11/16
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Fliegels honored with humanitarian award
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Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! an anti-poverty think tank gave its Lena and Joseph Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award to Hewlett Harbor residents Beth and Lenny Fliegal at a dinner celebration at Temple Avodah in Oceanside on May 2.
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5/11/16
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Breaking ground on a new play area
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The Lawrence School District aided by a $125,000 state grant with help from then Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) broke ground on a new playground last month for the elementary school students that now attend the Broadway campus at the middle school.
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5/11/16
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After a number of residents urged the city to install mats on the barrier island’s beaches so that those with mobility issues can easily access Long Beach’s iconic shoreline, the city last week released a plan to do just that.
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By Ben Strack
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5/5/16
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Tending to the burning chometz
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Five Towns residents and others from surrounding communities brought their chometz — food items not kosher for Passover — to the 14th annual Woodmere Fire Department chometz burning on April 22.
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4/25/16
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Hewkett-Woodmere Alumni Association celebrates its six inductees
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A half-dozen Hewlett High School graduates were celebrated for their professional achievements and inducted into the Hewlett-Woodmere Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame at the 19th annual ceremony and brunch at Hewlett High last Sunday.
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4/22/16
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