Many hungry competitors were clamming up for a worthy cause in Island Park last Sunday.
The Island Park Fire Department and Peter’s Clam Bar, on Long Beach Road, hosted the annual clam-eating …
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By Rei Wolfsohn
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8/19/23
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Lifelong Oceanside resident Greg Lisi has been appointed chair of the lawyer referral committee and the nominating committee of the Nassau County Bar Association in Mineola.
The nominating …
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By Kepherd Daniel
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8/19/23
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The Island Park Kiwanis Club hosted its annual lobster and steak dinner at Masone Beach Aug 4. The dinner serves as a fundraiser for the club, Island Park Kiwanis. All told, between $2,600 and $2,800 …
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By Kepherd Daniel
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8/19/23
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Eagle Scouts must display the character traits and skills that make them well-rounded contributors to their communities, and 14-year-old Kilian McNichol created an Eagle Scout project that reflected …
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By Kepherd Daniel
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12/15/23
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Would you be surprised to learn that 1 in 8 Americans have worked at a McDonald’s restaurant at some point in their lives? In an initiative started this past fall, McDonald’s is celebrating that …
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By Janet Prete
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12/15/23
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It’s a strange feeling to have to report on major disasters — how do you keep your personal feelings out of it?
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1/20/10
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A team of six Herald editors and reporters –– Scott Brinton, Jeff Bessen, Alex Costello, Mary Malloy, Anthony Rifilato and Alexandra Spychalsky –– have taken second place for Community …
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4/16/14
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With so many people doing so much good in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, there was no way the Herald could single out just one Person of the Year. So we didn’t.
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By Alex Costello
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12/28/12
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The motto of Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School in Island Park is “Together we are better.” In East Meadow, Barnum Woods Elementary School’s motto is “We use our head, heart and hands in all we do.”
Last Friday, the two schools backed up those words at a ceremony in the central courtyard of Barnum Woods, where school officials donated $18,500 to the Hegarty School, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
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By David Weingrad
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10/9/13
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After a meeting on March 11 with U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, of New Jersey, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate announced that the agency had agreed to reopen and review every flood insurance claim — approximately 144,000 — filed in New York and New Jersey by victims of Hurricane Sandy, and not limit corrective action to just the 2,200 claims that are now in litigation.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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3/18/15
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