Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Weather forecasters are often criticized for being wrong. With Hurricane Sandy, we wish they had been.
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11/15/12
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In a quiet corner of the main gymnasium at Nassau Community College’s athletic center in Garden City, where basketball games and wrestling matches are normally held, Red Cross volunteers have fashioned a small, makeshift daycare center out of room dividers, pinning up newsprint where children can draw pictures in crayon. There are books for reading as well, but little else.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/14/12
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There comes a moment in a monster hurricane such as Sandy when you question why you live on Long Island, this 118-mile-long spit of glacial debris deposited in the Atlantic Ocean from the mainland 20,000 years ago.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/13/12
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Sept. 11 anniversary calls for peace, not divisiveness
[Photo gallery]
It has been nine years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and ground zero still sits fallow, like a scarred-over knife wound in the heart of downtown Manhattan.
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It’s that time again: School’s in, vacation’s over, and we can all get back to some semblance of a schedule, thank goodness.
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Mary Malloy
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9/3/09
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