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Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence and helped to hand out 500 turkeys and 500 individual meals on the day before Thanksgiving.
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By Ann E. Friedman
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11/21/12
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Thanksgiving will have a different feel to it this year for many Long Island residents after Hurricane Sandy devastated thousands of homes in the area more than three weeks ago.
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I didn’t know what to expect the morning we returned to Lawrence High School. Fishing out my ID card from a pocket of my backpack I hadn’t dipped into in two weeks, I opened the school door.
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By Nicole Bae
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11/21/12
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Grateful residents — and their pets — welcomed North Shore Animal League America to East Rockaway on Nov. 15 when members of the no-kill shelter came to hand out pet food for those residents …
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By Mary Malloy
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11/21/12
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Caring and sharing at Lawrence temple’s Sandy Shabbat
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Temple Israel’s pre-Thanksgiving Shabbat service on Nov. 16 held a more special place in the Lawrence congregation’s minds as children from the Five Towns community and the Reform temple’s religious school had their personal experiences read aloud by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, and helped conduct the service.
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11/21/12
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Hewlett-Woodmere school community bonds over ad hoc event
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Marjorie Tannenbaum, the nurse at the Franklin Early Childhood Center in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District had an idea to lift the spirits of the community after Hurricane Sandy.
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11/21/12
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Residents, like Teri Schure of North Woodmere, have been cut off from a valuable thoroughfare into the Five Towns as a tidal surge from Hurricane Sandy washed away part of Branch Boulevard that spans from Hungry Harbor Road to Peninsula Boulevard in Cedarhurst.
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By Ann E. Friedman
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11/21/12
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Overcoming the challenges of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath has fatigued many, but with Hanukkah and Christmas on the horizon, area residents may welcome the chance to shed some of that storm-weariness by getting out of the house and going shopping.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/21/12
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Each day since Hurricane Sandy hit the region, the number of New Yorkers who have filed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has grown, and so too has the amount of reported funds given out by FEMA.
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11/20/12
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Substituting a town hall-style meeting for its regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting on Monday, the Lawrence School District invited residents to the cafeteria in the high school for an update on district news after Hurricane Sandy.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/20/12
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