Residents from across Elmont traded their costumes for rakes, brooms and shovels last Saturday morning, pitching in to help clean up Hempstead Turnpike.
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Matthew Hampton
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11/4/09
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No wonder the neighbors were frightened
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Willow Road School held its annual Wonderwalk on Oct. 30. Students, teachers, staff and parents walked through the neighborhood in their Halloween costumes.
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11/4/09
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The construction of an elevator to serve the Valley Stream Central High School District offices at Memorial Junior High School is currently under way, and some teachers at the school say that noise from the work has disrupted their classrooms.
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Anthony Bottan
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11/4/09
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For more than two decades, members of the Valley Stream Fire Department have been visiting local schools to teach children the basics of fire safety.
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Andrew Hackmack
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11/4/09
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Children who are legal residents of Valley Stream District 13 and will be 5 years of age on or before Dec. 1, 2010, are eligible to register for kindergarten for the 2010-11 school year.
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10/29/09
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Local school districts are scouring their budgets, looking for places where they can save after word came down last week that Gov. David Paterson will likely try to cut school aid mid-year by more than a half billion dollars statewide as part of his $5 billion Deficit Reduction Plan.
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Matthew Hampton
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10/29/09
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I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010.
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Scott Brinton
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10/22/09
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No rain on this parade
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Valley Stream North celebrated Homecoming last Saturday with a 20-12 victory over Conference IV rival Locust Valley.
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10/22/09
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Franklin Square and Elmont saw their fair share of parade floats and gleeful teenagers last weekend, as three separate homecomings turned the area into one long parade. H. Frank Carey, Sewanhaka and North high schools held their Homecoming festivities on Saturday, filling the local streets with marching bands and parade floats, not to mention the most all-American of royalty, the Homecoming courts.
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Matthew Hampton
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10/22/09
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Sewanhaka celebrates four holidays at once
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Sewanhaka High School's "Holiday" Homecoming theme was a weekend-long celebration for students of all ages.
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Matthew Hampton
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10/22/09
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