Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy swung by the cement-gray trailer at the east end of Bennington Avenue in Freeport in November 2008.
“The place was packed,” recalled O’Shaughnessy of the facility, squeezed between a window factory and a truck yard, which gives immigrant day laborers a safe place to wait for landscapers and contractors to pick them up for jobs.
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Scott Brinton
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9/21/10
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Each spring the men poured out of rickety trucks and lived in a barn that smelled of pesticides for the next six months. They seemed always to be joking, but their weatherworn faces told a different story about their lives — one of hardship.
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Scott Brinton
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9/4/10
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There are only a few days left until the Sept. 14 primaries, which will determine who will be on the ballot on Election Day, Nov. 2.
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9/3/10
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Suddenly, I was captivated by the darkness below on a steamy August day. I could only stare as tiny gray pill bugs crept up from the recesses of the decaying leaf pile. Then I noticed an earthworm slithering to the surface and looping back to the underworld. This place was alive.
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Scott Brinton
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8/20/10
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Final part in a series.
Why does anyone -- let alone a young person full of life -- start snorting or shooting heroin, an opiate known to cause near-instant addiction and possibly a lifetime of suffering?
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Scott Brinton
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8/17/10
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In my mind, I pictured little boys scurrying through African jungles, chased by men with big guns. I saw the boys shot and killed, their blood running down the tall trees surrounding them. I saw them lying in oozing mud.
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Scott Brinton
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8/5/10
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On July 22, Coleman Country Day Camp in Merrick was abuzz with excitement as campers and counselors alike eagerly awaited the arrival of Yankees’ outfielder Brett Gardner.
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Scott Brinton
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7/23/10
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At bottom of story, see Brett Gardner give Coleman Country campers high-fives in Herald videos.
Nine-year-old Jake Ignatow of Long Beach rounded the bases at Coleman Country Day Camp’s synthetic-turf infield at full speed, a tad of out breath when he reached third. Awaiting him a few paces off the baseline was none other than Yankees center fielder Brett Gardner, best known as the last player to score at the old Yankee Stadium in September 2008.
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Scott Brinton
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7/22/10
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As a child growing up on Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s, I splashed in the surf on Fire Island and at Westhampton Beach. I tooled around the wetland canals surrounding Head of the Harbor in a rickety rowboat, catching crabs.
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Scott Brinton
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7/22/10
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Richard Roth, CNN’s United Nations correspondent, did a report on June 18, just as the World Cup was getting under way, in which he asked Americans strolling on the street why the U.S. hasn’t …
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Scott Brinton
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7/7/10
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