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LIers organize to keep area state parks open

Originally published: February 15, 2010 8:33 PM
Updated: February 15, 2010 10:21 PM
By BILL BLEYER  bill.bleyer@newsday.com

Quick ReadCSEA Local 102, which represents parks workers, and parks advocacy groups are gearing up for campaigns to lobby legislators who must approve the budget.

Chris Lyons, of Malverne, plays with his son

Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Chris Lyons, of Malverne, plays with his son Andrew, 3, and daughter Alexa, 1, at Hempstead Lake State Park. (Feb. 15, 2010)

As Long Islanders begin organizing to save state parks targeted for potential closing, the chairman of the State Assembly's parks committee has threatened to invoke rarely used subpoena power to get officials to release a list of threatened facilities.

On Thursday, Newsday revealed a list of 10 Nassau and Suffolk sites that park sources said might be shut by summer if the governor's proposed...

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