“It’s not a sad day at all today,” Lorraine Fiorello said in the living room of her Seaford home on May 17, one year to the day after her son, Nico, was injured in a swimming accident at Jones Beach. “It’s a day to party.”
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/24/16
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A week after community members made a push for the creation of a bowling team, parents asked the Seaford Board of Education to look into adding swimming, which led to a back and forth discussion at the March 3 meeting.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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3/9/16
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Fourteen Long Beach High School athletes are preparing to head to New York State Winter Championships, setting a district record for the largest contingent of individual sport athletes ever to reach this level in one season.
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3/7/16
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Whether it’s a backyard pool, a municipal aquatic center or the ocean, opportunities to swim are endless on Long Island. That’s why the Town of Hempstead offers swimming lessons at its pools, to teach both skills and safety.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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8/4/15
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Swimming in a pool or the ocean is some of the best fun that summer has to offer, but the dangers are ever-present — in the Town of Hempstead alone, lifeguards make more than 2,000 rescues each summer . . .
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6/25/15
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It takes about three hours to drive from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Hudson, N.Y. to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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6/24/15
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It was a banner year for the Wantagh High School boys’ swimming program, as the team made it to the state tournament while breaking several school records along the way.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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3/18/15
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Rockville Centre resident Lori King, 39, completed an open-water swim from the California mainland to Catalina Island — a distance of 20.5 miles — beginning the night of Aug. 14 and finishing the following morning, eight hours and 51 minutes later.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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9/3/14
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Swimming is prohibited in the Atlantic Ocean today, Aug. 28, at Jones Beach State Park and several other South Shore beaches because of rip currents caused by Hurricane Cristobal.
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8/28/14
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We’re in the middle of summer, and with so much playing in and around so much water, just how many of us have the requisite swimming skills?
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8/6/14
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