While heading home from school, students and school bus drivers rely on the buses’ stop signs to make each stop safe. Occasionally, a driver on the road, heading toward a stopped bus or coming …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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Rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water headed away from shore that aren’t easy for recreational swimmers to spot. Nervous swimmers who find themselves caught in a rip …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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Long Beach is synonymous with surfing. People running into the water, jumping on their surfboards and riding the waves in the sun is a typical summer across the city.
Surf for All, one of Long …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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The Long Beach City Council met July 5 to discuss a variety of issues regarding the community. Topics varied from electric vehicle power stations to concerns about the Empire Wind Project — per …
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By Sean Kennedy
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7/16/23
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The Long Beach Police Department hosted a gun buyback event for the first time in six years Saturday, July 8. They collected the weapons at Evangel Revival Community Church in the North Park area, …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/16/23
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In February 2021, Julius Wolfe came down with a fever, and small red spots, called petechiae, appeared on his legs. His mother, Tabitha Nilson, took him to an emergency room to make sure he …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/9/23
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Kevin Glenz, a star lacrosse player at Lynbrook High School and the son of Larry Glenz, a longtime wrestling coach at the high school, died in 2010, at 27, of a heroin overdose.
Last week, Long …
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By Sean Kennedy
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7/9/23
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Four candidates are running for Long Beach City Council this time around — challenger James Hodge and incumbents Liz Treston, Tina Posterli and Karen McInnis. Early voting took place for the …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/9/23
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Gun buyback days have become popular — and effective — events across the state. There have been numerous across Nassau County even, and for the first time in years, the City of Long Beach …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/9/23
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman took to the sand in Lido Beach Wednesday to announce the month of July now has a new name — Rip Current Awareness Month.
Blakeman was joined by …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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7/9/23
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