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March Madness hits the South Shore
A mid-March storm, with winds of more than 70 miles per hour, struck the South Shore of Long Island on Saturday, taking down trees and utility lines, toppling poles and causing major flooding. In Amityville, Babylon, West Islip, Bay Shore, Lindenhurst, Massapequa and Massapequa Park, Town and Village crews were out in the thick of it, along with local fire departments and police. More...
Former Massapequan to run in Boston Marathon for charity

Amy Lepre Brock, a 1994 Massapequa High School graduate, will run the prestigious Boston Marathon as a member of the Children’s Hospital Boston Miles for Miracles Team. Amy is a research scientist studying cancer biology at Harvard Medical School. After graduating from Massapequa High School, she earned a BS at MIT and then a PhD at Children’s Hospital and Harvard University. More...

New recycling day for Massapequa Park Village
by Lena Pennino

Attention Massapequa Park residents: Your recycling day is now Thursday. The Town of Oyster Bay changed its S.O.R.T. pick up from Wednesday to Thursday last month and tried to get the word out, but apparently not everyone got the message. More...

 People/Social
• article has image Pythians Tumor Foundation
Mid Island Lodge No. 828 Knights of Pythias of Massapequa has provided funding for the Children’s Tumor Foundation as part of year-round altruistic endeavors. More...
• article has image St. William the Abbot Troop 690 volunteers
• article has image Drug Free Massapequa holds open house
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 Schools/Sports
• article has image Massapequa athletes try for state finals
Massapequa athletes took part in the Nassau County Section 8 Championships at Hofstra qualifiers at Suffolk CC-Brentwood last month. Sopohomore Joe Caraciola came in 2nd with a long lump of 21-feet, 1.25 inches. He qualified for the State finals. More...
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 Columnists
• article has image Pets, Pets, Pets
The “Quinn plot” thickens. Quinn was a wonderful English Setter rescued from the city shelter. We knew him less than a month before his kidneys succumbed to untreated Lyme disease. Only after Quinn’s death, did we learn that his migrated microchip was traced to South Africa. Yes, South Africa. More...
• article has image Pets for Adoption
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 Library
• article has image It's Happenin' at Your Library
Massapequa 523 Central Avenue 798-4607 Massapequa Park 40 Harbor Lane 799-0770 •The Harbor Lane Library will be showing the classic movie The Mad Miss Manton, Sat., March 20, 2 p.m. More...
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 Events & Calendar
• article has image This Week’s events
The following is a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week. Readers should know that meetings are subject to change without notice. THURSDAY, March 18 •Scrabble: 12:15 to 3:15 p.m., Plainedge Public Library, 1060 Hicksville Rd., Massapequa. For further info., call 827-9506. More...
• Bird Walk to be held March 21
• Amityville Kiwanis offers scholarship
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 Obituaries
• article has image Dorothy Johnson, U.S. Navy WAVE and Massapequa Park pioneer
Dorothy Johnson, longtime Massapequa Park resident and community volunteer, died Feb. 18, 2010 of complications from pneumonia. She was 86. Mrs. Johnson grew up in Rockaway Beach, and moved to Massapequa Park with her husband, Walter, in 1954. More...
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 Opinion
• Editorial:
Our real power is in people
There we were, sitting in our homes without electricity and bemoaning our state. What would we do without television? How could we style our hair without a blow dryer. Did we still remember how to brush our teeth with a hand-powered toothbrush, and could we survive without the internet, email and facebook? More...
• article has image DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
• Readers’ Voices: Letters and Commentary
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 Legals
• Public Notices
Your right to know
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE FARMINGDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Farmingdale Union Free School District of the Towns of Oyster Bay and Babylon, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York, will be held at the Farmingdale Public Library, 116 Merritts Road, Farmingdale, New York, in said District More...
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