Keyword: Howard Schwach
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On Oct. 3, the commissioners of Sanitary District 7 were told that union workers had overwhelmingly rejected their contract offer.
Sanitation commissioners will meet to impose contract
In the wake of an overwhelming rejection of a contract recommended by a fact-finder and offered by the commissioners of Sanitary District 7 in Oceanside to district workers, the commissioners will … more
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Howard Schwach
Where is the proof that Common Core works?
In its rush to coerce states to adopt the new Common Core standards, the federal government forgot a major step that is always associated with viable educational reform. Nobody ever bothered to … more
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Alec Sapounas was charged with setting fire to the patio area outside Phat Daddy
Pub patio damaged by fire
An Oceanside man was charged with arson and reckless endangerment after he allegedly poured gasoline on the floor of a picnic area outside a local pub, and lit it. According to 4th Squad … more
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Island Park Mayor James Ruzicka, left, Fire Chief Anthony D
After a tearful ceremony, a heartless theft
The story of a new playground, named for a 6-year-old victim of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last December, ended on a sour note when thieves stole the centerpiece of … more
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Anna D'Amaro sands in front of her Island Park home with a photo of her nephew, Philip, who died of cancer a week prior to Sandy.
Raising the roof, as well as the rest of the house
If it weren’t for bad luck, Island Park resident Anna D’Amaro would have no luck at all. Count the ways. A week prior to Hurricane Sandy, which wiped out her ranch home, D’Amaro’s … more
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Howard Schwach
Spitting in a vial to find the past
A few months ago, I spit into a vial all the way up to the black line and sent my spit away to a laboratory in California. Now, thanks to a new DNA identification program driven by Ancestry.com, … more
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Avalon Bay and Posillico plan to build a development at Harbor Island that would include 140 rental apartments and 32 high-end condominiums.
Harbor Isle hearing set for Oct. 1
The Town of Hempstead board will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 1 to decide whether or not a proposed development in the Harbor Isle section of Island Park will get its approval to start cleaning up … more
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CRZ committee completed
The 12-member Community Reconstruction Zone Committee is complete and has started its work — deciding how $25 million can best be spent nearly a year after the devastation caused by Hurricane … more
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Health care is sticking point in sanitation negotiations
Union workers in Oceanside’s Sanitary District 7 have balked at ratifying a contract recommended in July by a fact-finder and their own union officials, rejecting a non-binding recommendation that … more
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Marie Sweeny in the hospital after the attack in Sept. 2010.
Former hospital nurse wins suit
An Oceanside woman who is a former nurse at Franklin Hospital in Valley Stream was awarded nearly $5 million in civil damages on Sept. 9 in a case against a former psychiatric patient who beat her … more
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