The Beatles are coming to Oceanside — sort of.
One of the Beatles foremost tribute bands, Strawberry Fields, will play a benefit fundraiser for the Susan Satriano Foundation at the Oceanside …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/11/13
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What makes a good student?
All teachers know the answer to that question.
Parents who care and who value education.
That might sound like a no-brainer, but my 33 years as a teacher and …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/11/13
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There was a time in her career when a major concern for Dr. Rosmarie Bovino, then the director of the Chinese International School in Hong Kong, were the typhoons that regularly swept into Hong Kong …
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9/11/13
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J.W. Mays department store heir Lloyd Shulman, who owns the South Bay Country Club in Oceanside through a corporation called Weinstein Enterprises, has moved in federal bankruptcy court to terminate …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/11/13
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At the request of Laura Munafo, the Nassau County coordinator for the state’s Community Reconstruction Zones program, the Island Park chamber of commerce on August 28 recommended three of its …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently said that the Common Core might well prove to be “the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown versus Board of …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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The Island Park Board of Education has appointed a former New York City principal as the new educational leader for the Lincoln Orens Middle School.
On Aug 29, the board appointed Vincent …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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During the 1954 basketball season, All-American Buddy Ackerman, a graduate of Long Island University, played 28 games for the New York Knicks before being traded to the Boston Celtics. Ackerman, who …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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Indications are that both the union representing Oceanside Sanitary District No. 7 workers and district officials are ready to sign a new contract.
After three years of fits and starts, a fact …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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Americans have a habit of codifying everything, taking the essence of an issue and putting a number to that essence so that everybody can understand just how bad things have become.
In many …
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By Howard Schwach
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8/28/13
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