Members of the Barry and Florence Friedberg JCC gathered for the inaugural Community Heroes Luncheon and Friedberg Friends Awards at the Sunny Atlantic Beach Club July 28. The JCC honored several dedicated community members for their support of the center and community throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Tom Carrozza
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8/5/21
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A $439 million conveyance project to redirect partially treated sewage from its current outflow in Reynolds Channel, just south Island Park and Oceanside, to a location in the Atlantic Ocean three miles south of Wantagh is progressing, according New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials.
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By Tom Carrozza
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7/22/21
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The New York State Department of Health should move immediately to ban cookies laced with the THC chemical delta-8, a natural hemp extract that is now legal under the state’s medical marijuana law.
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7/8/21
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The legalization of the sale and use of recreational marijuana in New York has been met with stiff opposition in the form of opt-outs from local municipalities. In Oceanside, the high school’s youth council made their mark on the conversation by creating signs to run on Nassau Inter-County Express buses to warn county residents about the effects the drug can have on developing brains.
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By Tom Carrozza
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6/17/21
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Our brave firefighters risk their lives every day to keep our communities safe. The least we can do is protect them from dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals.
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By Todd Kaminsky
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6/10/21
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Former Oceanside Fire Chief Kevin Klein was recently appointed to the New York State Volunteer Firefighter Recruitment and Retention Task Force.
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5/13/21
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With a rate hike of as much as 26 percent facing New York American Water customers on May 1, elected officials have sought to save Long Island ratepayers tens of millions of dollars on their bills while creating a path for a public takeover of the water system.
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By Mike Smollins
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4/29/21
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At the turn of the 20th century, environmental protection meant preserving wilderness so future generations might know nature as the great environmentalists Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir knew it — bountiful and largely pristine. Some 120 years later . . .
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4/15/21
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Many elected officials and community members offered varying opinions after New York state legalized recreational marijuana use last week.
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By Mike Smollins and Peter Belfiore
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4/9/21
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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach who chairs the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, has introduced legislation in the Senate that could cripple magazines and newspapers across the state . . .
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4/1/21
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