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How officials cloaked a small Nassau project in conflicting answers
It was a simple question: Why were Nassau County employees and equipment at the soccer fields by the Plainedge High School on Aug. 23?
A Civil Service Employees Association spokesman confirmed the next day that union members had been working there because the county, which owns a nearby recharge basin, agreed to put in walkways around the fields to prevent people from slipping in the mud.
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