Q. In your last column, you concluded with “openings between your garage and living space can kill you,” but you should have mentioned the problem of fire . . .
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10/17/14
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Kennedy High School students, faculty and staff were treated to an action-packed day of festivities for the 2014 Homecoming celebration.The Kennedy Cougars varsity football team took on the Jericho …
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/15/14
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Merrick lost 24 of its sons and daughters in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Thirteen years later, their families, friends and community members continue to remember the lives they lived and mourn their loss.
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9/17/14
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Kevin Vaughan, a Marine corporal who was wounded in Afghanistan and received a hero’s welcome when he returned home to North Merrick in 2012, will now receive a free house, courtesy of Building Homes for Heroes.
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By Brian Racow
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9/10/14
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Three juveniles were arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with a small fire that was set at the Chatterton Elementary School playground sometime between Wednesday evening, Aug. 20, and Thursday morning, Aug. 21, according to Nassau County Police.
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8/21/14
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Parts of Bellmore-Merrick were underwater last week, when a rainstorm of historic proportions caused flooding across the area. The National Weather Service issued flash-flood warnings for much of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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8/20/14
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Peter’s Clam Bar hosted a clam-eating contest on Sunday to benefit Long Island firehouses that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
A total of 14 contestants from Island Park Fire Department, Oceanside Fire Department, Point Lookout-Lido Fire Department, Long Beach Fire Department, North Merrick Fire Department, and Baldwin Fire Department competed in the first part of the contest . A total of almost 2,000 clams were eaten by all.
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8/20/14
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Kevin O’Hara has been saving lives for four decades. A volunteer paramedic and firefighter with the North Merrick Fire Department, O’Hara is also a purveyor of life-saving knowledge to others — he has trained thousands of EMTs throughout his career, and thousands more Nassau County residents have learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ...
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8/13/14
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The North Merrick Fire Department topped 72 other local agencies this year to be selected as the Nassau County Regional Medical Advisory Council’s “EMS Agency of the Year.”
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8/13/14
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If there’s one thing we’re good at in America, it’s killing people.
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7/30/14
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