We all remember where we were that day. I remember every detail.
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By Andrew Garbarino
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8/24/23
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About 300 women came together in support of local breast cancer survivors at the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition’s third annual fashion show last Sunday.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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3/5/20
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“The idea that a Holocaust survivor disappears, his story does not,” said Irving Roth, a friend of Ray Fishler’s. “His spirit and soul continues to live.”
Fishler, of Wayne, N.J., a former Rockville Centre resident who shared his stories of the Holocaust to inspire local students and families, died on Nov. 19.
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By Ben Strack
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11/29/18
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As some adults still struggle to process what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, the task of explaining the attacks to their children is even more difficult. But with the installation of a new Story Walk on the Village Green, that conversation could become easier.
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By Ben Strack
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9/13/18
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Only days after escaping the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history, Robert Gaafar took a walk with his wife and two young children. He heard popping noises, momentarily transporting him from Rockville Centre back to the Route 91 Harvest Festival last Oct. 1, at which 58 people were killed and 851 injured.
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By Ben Strack
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6/7/18
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Detecting breast cancer at its earliest stage has long challenged doctors. Now, new state-of-the-art technology could make that discovery much easier and save more lives.
Mercy Medical Center, in …
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By Brian Kacharaba
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2/22/17
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I blame Sweden for Donald Trump’s stunning victory last week. Yes, Sweden. In 1997, “Expedition Robinson” first appeared on Swedish television. Three years later . . .
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11/17/16
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In 2008, when she was 33, Rockville Centre resident Mailet Lopez was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.
While she was being treated, she met a woman named Rita, who was undergoing treatment …
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By Alex Costello
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2/24/16
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A sapling from a tree that survived the collapse of the twin towers has found a new home in Rockville Centre.
The tree, a Callery pear, had been reduced to an 8-foot-tall stump when it was found …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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9/23/15
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The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/20/12
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