To the Editor:I write to express my concern about Covid-19 vaccine access in communities of color on Long Island. As the coronavirus crisis lingers, the combination of two age-old realities — …
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4/3/21
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Q. We were told to file a permit to rent our house next door, which an inspector came and looked at and said it was a “simple” permit.
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By Monte Leeper
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12/3/20
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What does she have to hide?
To the Editor:
I recently learned that a Candidates’ Forum hosted by the Malverne Civic Association was declined by State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin after …
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10/31/20
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Meet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to . . .
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By Randi Kreiss
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9/11/20
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I get plenty of letters, but only a few of them get published, so I thought you’d like to see some samples of the mail I get day in and day out from supporters and critics, the thoughtful, the loonies and the insightful.
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1/10/20
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My stomach was churning furiously. The Press Club of Long Island’s first-ever poetry reading on Aug. 23 was to begin in a half-hour at the Huntington Station birthplace of the unparalleled poet and journalist Walt Whitman. Would anyone show? I wondered.
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9/14/18
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Island Harvest Food Bank is teaming up with the National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service for the 25th annual Stamp Out Hunger campaign on Saturday, May 13.
In …
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4/28/17
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My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Heller, told me that I needed to grow an “elephant skin.” She advised toughening up if I wanted to survive elementary school trash talk.
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3/31/17
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Community members are invited to stamp out hunger this Saturday by participating in the nation’s largest single-day food drive. The collection benefits Island Harvest Food Bank — a …
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/12/16
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There’s no end to corruption in Albany
To the Editor:
The Herald editorial “Albany should resolve to fight corruption” in last week’s paper was a good encapsulation of the problem, …
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1/20/16
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